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RE: What was your first computer?
64mb ram 750 mhz and 32 mb graphic card :lol:
OS Windows 98
02-28-2007 05:45 PM
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RE: What was your first computer?
First computer I "used" (not really used, but rather pushed on buttons and played one or two games) was a ZX 81 (red color), and a ZX Spectrum 82 with a wooping 48K memory and 3.5MHz speed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
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This was also the oldest computer I ever wrote a program for.
I still have it (incl. all manuals, etc) and it still works...

After that when I grew older we got a Commodore 64:
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with 64 Kb RAM.. OMG! Still have boxes full of floppies with games (original version of MANIAC MANSION... WHOOOHOO) and also many cassette tapes (instead of floppies which were 'state of the art' and with disk drives as big as a modern designed media center..., computers worked mainly with tapes). Also all the manuals, etc, and working (although keyboard has many sticky keys :p)

This was also a computer which you could literally pull chips out and replace them, solder your own connections, etc... It was a tweakers' computer, so to speak :p

After that, my first "Personal Computer" was a 286 with a CGA graphics card (I believe with DOS 3.0), then switched to a Tulip 286 (DOS 4 and 5) with Hercules graphics card, which is b/w but with special high resolution (7xx x 500) (it was a "Tulip").

From there it went 386 (Windows 3.x), 386DX, 386DX2 (Win 3.11), 486DX2, 486DX4, Pentium (Win 95), etc...

And somewhere in between I sometimes used an Atari and my nephew had an Amiga...


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A HP Vectra ES :)

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8MHz CPU (286)
640KB RAM (enough for everybody :p)
20MB harddsik
5.25 inch floppy :D
Black and white monitor!!!!!
Oh my, such one (from the HP Vectra series) is still sitting next to me (though it is a Pentium, Vectra XM): picture (never mind the extreme mess... a bomb exploded :p)

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RE: What was your first computer?
It was a custom build one.

10GB Of storage.
It had a CD-drive and a floppy!
224MB of RAM.
Some weird AMD-processor which isn't easy to find today. :p
And an even harder to find AMD-graphics card. Something with 3D in it... :-/
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RE: What was your first computer?
800Hz
32MB of ram :o
20GB hard drive
Windows Me (pirated in some way)

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RE: What was your first computer?
I don't know the specs, but it was a rather large PC running Windows 95 :P.
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RE: What was your first computer?
6GB Hard Drive
Windows 98
64 mb Ram
can't remember CPU speed
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RE: What was your first computer?
The one i'm using right now.
Windows XP
60GB Hard drive
Pentium 4
256 MB RAM
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RE: RE: What was your first computer?
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The one i'm using right now.
Windows XP
60GB Hard drive
Pentium 4
256 MB RAM


Yeah me too..

AMD Thunderbird (dunno exactly which) 1400Mhz
256MB ram
40GB HD
ATi 9600 pro (i boughtit afterwards))

My newest computer is being repaired.
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RE: What was your first computer?
the first PC I bought myself had something like this: AMD K6 350MHz (@428MHz), 128MB RAM, 16MB graphics and 6GB HDD. I upgraded this PC until what I have now, but in fact there's nothing left from what I had then. Last thing I had from the beginning was the case, which I replaced about 3weeks ago :P

Before I had my own I used to use my dad's PCs, of which I don't know the exact specs. The first PC I remember here at home was one of those with a 2-digit LED screen showing the clock speed (first 80, later 99)
02-28-2007 08:00 PM
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RE: What was your first computer?
Self-build

Pentium 3 1GHz
128MB SDRAM
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 GFXcard edit: 64MB

Kinda bullshit compared to my new one ^^

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