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Mine was a 386 with I think Windows 3.1.. Then I stepped up a gear and got a 486 with Windows 95. Oh those were the days, loading an OS with about twenty 3.5inch floppy disks and it taking you 2 hours.
Atari 65 XE (still have it up and running)
8088 with a Mathematical Co-Processor and 20MB HDD.
I still remember using "Pine" on unix , God i miss those good old days.
My first personal one was purchased in 2006 (Yes. I'm young and also it was like salary of five years, still the prices are really high)
It was a Compaq with 128mb ram, 1 800Mhz core and 200mb hdd. Not really old, but I'm 16 years old
Born in 1992, but I do remember my grandpa spending thousands on a computer for our family way back in the day. Something like $1,985 or something, don't remember.
It was: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005V7L4/gemotrack9-20/ref=nosim
..and it slowly became mine
commodore vic-20 till we upgraded to the 64 with a floppy and dual tape drives. We ran a BBS back in the day on this high-tech setup.
Well my first home computer was a Packard Bell with a 75MHz processor, I crashed it the first night I had it trying to install Doom I think.
Pentium MMX w/ 32mb RAM & 20gb HDD IIRC.
MicroAce. taiwan kit computer - copy of ZX80. 1K RAM B&W "graphics"
then a C64, and my first disk. 5" floppy, single sided. 180K
then an Amiga 1000
then a 286, complete with my first hard disk, 40MB I think. ahh, the old turbo button!
followed by various x86 from 386, 486, 486x2, 486x4, and pentiums
archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-04/1981_04_BYTE_06-04_Future_Computers#page/n47/mode/2up
TRS-80... then to a Apple Mac2.....then upgraded to a 286 Swan Technologies PC... then to 386 Packard Bell... Then I lost track..486, then a p3...
1993 Compaq 80486, Pentium 50MHz w/ 64MB RAM and 200MB HDD, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy, Turbo button, Genuine MS DOS 6.22
Cost: RMB 20000 (~USD 2500)
Pic of a similar PC:
Side note: Loved to play the two gorillas throwing bananas game and the "snake" game (Nibbles) in QBASIC under MS DOS. Anyone can remember those?
Commodore VIC-20, those were the good ol' days. Upgraded to a Tandy 1000 (original) and started my first BBS on that -- ah, the days of Fidonet!
Some Pentium II Gateway machine. 20GB HDD and 128mb of ram I believe
pentium 3, 128ram,onboard vga with 20gb HDD
One of my colleagues has a working ZX80 and ZX81 with a box on the back from extra RAM. Horrible thing.
My first machine was an Amiga 500, that was a very cool machine.
Guys, if you have pics plz share the same. Thanx.
I'm still using pine. Ok, it's called "alpine" now.
My first machine its the reason i'm crazy about computer it was a IBM machine form my Uncle old and got in a small fire and case melted but my cousin fixed it for him But it was very slow than his P4 3Ghz machine so he gave it to me over the years i figured out how to change the OS from windows 2000 to linux i this have the system now it runs i use it for Pfsense firewall
spec P4 1.4Ghz(i think),40G HDD, IBM ThinkCentre in a wooden board
atari 130xe then my father got a Mac Plus it change/set my life to machines.
Pentium 133, 16M Ram, 2G Quantum Bigfoot, Creative Sound Blaster in 1998.
40 GB HDD
128 MB RAM
Windows 95
Pentium 3
and a fat monitor!
it was my 4th birthday gift from my dad! and the first thing I did on it was played my first video game ( Beer Truck )
Can't remember but it was a Fujitsu. I think it was a pentium 3 or something and it ran Windows 98
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
Same here, except I only has a 10MB HDD
Cost just under $3,000. Ran a bastardized thing called PC-DOS.
"Basterdized" lol !!
I remember our first servers - IBM PC Server 300 series and Netfinity 1000. I think we even have one 300 still running somewhere. The 5.25 SCSI HDDs which you can use instead of bricks
Shiney and brand new
Amazing !!