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I was helping my dad clean out the garage and found our first computer behind some junk. Man, I can't believe we payed almost $2,000 for this.
Intel 486dx 33mhz
4 mb ram (upgraded to 12mb!!)
200 mb hard drive
2x cd-rom
2.4 baud rate modem (upgraded to a 33.6k isa modem)
on board video, ISA sound card/ide controller
Windows 3.1
It had a 14" monitor in which we payed about $300 for. Man, 1993 was a great year. My computer now has an AMD Athlon 1700+, iWill motherboard w/raid, 768mb pc2100 DDR, 200 GB Hard drive w/ 8mb cache, Geforce 3, Sound Blaster live and all that was under $500 when i built it last year.
What was your first computer?
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286 1 mb RAM10 mb hard drive no cd-rom no modem POS monitor dot matrix printer $2,000 
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ah the days of the 8088...pre 286 days.  that was 1,000
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pentium 1 50mhz
4 mb ram (upgraded later to 16)
1 or 2x cdrom
14.4 modem
win 3.11
sound
dot matrix printer
mouse!
Russell
Oval Port 3L Nearly Done
MTX75 w/ Homebrew Zetec FD and Torsen Complete
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I feel Guilty, Oh so guilty
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McIntosh Quadra 660AV was the first computer I personally owned.
25mhz
68MB ram
250MB HD
Voice activation
S-Video In/out
"If you are flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit"
-Mitch Hedberg
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Our computer was similar to this. AST Advantage 486sx/33mhz 4mb RAM (upgraded to 8mb @ $150+ !!) Came with no CDROM/Sound card (added for another $175 or so bucks) 280mb hard drive windows 3.11 oh yeah and around 94-95 we got a 28.8 modem for like $120 and started using aol 2.0 0r 2.5 meh Originally posted by Batmobile:
I was helping my dad clean out the garage and found our first computer behind some junk. Man, I can't believe we payed almost $2,000 for this.
Intel 486dx 33mhz
4 mb ram (upgraded to 12mb!!)
200 mb hard drive
2x cd-rom
2.4 baud rate modem (upgraded to a 33.6k isa modem)
on board video, ISA sound card/ide controller
Windows 3.1
It had a 14" monitor in which we payed about $300 for. Man, 1993 was a great year. My computer now has an AMD Athlon 1700+, iWill motherboard w/raid, 768mb pc2100 DDR, 200 GB Hard drive w/ 8mb cache, Geforce 3, Sound Blaster live and all that was under $500 when i built it last year.
What was your first computer?
1999 Silver Frost SVT
#609 of 2760
Quaife, lightened SVT Flywheel, SPEC stage II clutch, removed resonator, k&n drop in - various other goodies too.
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First family computer ....
Macintosh LCIII
25 MHz, maxed out to 20 MB RAM, 25 MB HDD (expanded with an external 375MB ... still have that external drive!), 14" monitor, external NEC 3x CD-ROM drive (cartridge loading!!). Awesome machine, and founded my Mac enthusiasm. Used that computer regularly up through 8th grade.
First "my" computer ...
Compaq Presario 4504
Pentium 200 MHz, 16 MB RAM (expanded to 48MB), 2 GB HDD, 15" monitor with attached speakers and volume control located on the monitor. Handed down to me in late 1998, I toyed with that thing as much as Windows 95 allowed me to ... for example, it would only let me install 1042 font files before they all crashed and it wouldn't display any text anymore, and once I ran five toolbars just to see if I could ("Bail Out" is a shortcut to C:\Windows\RUNDLL32.EXE User,ExitWindows). Tiny beautiful tower, too, but a horrible design; had to disconnect the mobo to do anything!
Similar to this one, but mine had a door covering the 16x CD-ROM (and a 2x1x4 Acer CD-RW drive, which I still use regularly now in the eMachines) ...
First computer I bought on my own:
Macintosh PowerBook 3400c
With all its 200 MHz, 16 MB RAM, and 2 GB HDD glory, I still enjoy toying with this thing when I have time. It was truly a grand machine for its time, and when I saved up my hard-earned Burger King money and bought it in 2000 for $699 from MacResQ, I thought I was getting the deal of the century. Hah! Nice thing was, however, all external SCSI accessories saved from the LCIII (external hard drive, CD-ROM drive) worked with this machine.
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In 1981, I convinced my parents to buy a used Apple ][. That was ??my? first computer, though really the whole family's.
1 MHz 6502, 48K of RAM, no hard drive. Initially, we only had
an audio tape recorder to save and load programs and data, though
we soon added two 140K floppy drives.
The first computer that was truly my own was a brand new Macintosh ][, which I bought in 1987.
16 Mhz 68020/68881.
I inititally bought it with no hard drive (later added a 45-meg drive,
and after that died, a 200 meg drive), two 800K floppies (later upgraded
to two 1.44-meg floppies) 1 megabyte of RAM (later upgraded to 8
megabytes).
My current system is a Beige (Pre-iMac) Power Macintosh G3.
300 MHz PowerPC G3 processor
352 megabytes of RAM (recently upgraded from 128 megabytes)
6.4 gigabyte hard drive
10 gigabyte hard drive
MacOs X 10.2.8 ??Jaguar?
I paid nearly $6,000 when I initially bought my Macintosh ][. Looking at Apple's current offerings, it looks like, if I had that much to spend now, I could buy TWO of their current top-of-the-line dual-processor G5 systems. Alas, I'm not nearly so wealthy now (at least not in terms of excess $$$) as I was in 1986. My current system, I got for about $200 via eBay, earlier this year.
Hyster E60XM-33
1996 Mercury Mystique GS, Zetec, ATX
To email me, remove the string HatesSpam from this address:BobHatesSpam@Blaylock.to
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My first computer was the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer. I used it in the 4th grade in 1984 (I went to the smart classes on the short bus), then Mom bought one for me. I had a cassette drive that you could get stupid litle text games on. I also used to write little BASIC programs for games like Blackjack and dice. Pretty awesome for its day: a color computer that I ran through my Coleco Vision RF adapter to the TV in my bedroom. It had a whopping 0.89 MHz Motorola 6809 CPU. A quick search found these pics on THIS site (I had a beige case):  
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First owned: Atari 130XE, 6502 processor at 1mhz, 128k RAM (via bank switching), one floppy drive, running AtariDOS 2.0 or 2.5, and PaperClip word processing software (neat, because it had a spell-checker), and VisiCalc, (of course); hooked to an Epson LQ800 24-pin dot matrix printer. Running (or attempting to run) 6502 assembly language on the mother was fun....
First used: Univac 1108 and IBM 7094, programming in FORTRAN, BASIC, ALGOL, SNOBOL, and Univac Assembler...punch cards typed on an IBM 029 keypunch machine or on paper tape. FASTRAN Drum storage on the Univac, Discpacks on the IBM.
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