|
|
Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 240
CEG\'er
|
CEG\'er
Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 240 |
Apple IIe. 
'99 SVT Contour #535/2760, born 11/30/98. Toreador Red / Prairie Tan
Wife's car: '00 Saturn LS2. Dk. Toreador Red (no joke) / Graphite
Sunday Bruiser: '67 Camaro rs/SS350 4 spd. Ermine White / Custom Yellow
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 807
Veteran CEG\'er
|
|
Veteran CEG\'er
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 807 |
Originally posted by chemguru:
Hmm... No one else had a Commadore 64?
Heh, I was thinking the same thing by this point in the thread.  We got our first computer, a Commodore 64 the day before my eighth birthday, Aug. 5, 1983. I was opening up my presents, and opened a cartridge game called Jupiter Lander. I said, "Where's the um, where's the system?" My dad shrugged. "Maybe you'll get that for Christmas." Feeling dejected, I kept plugging away through the rest of my presents until I got to the big one. Never in a million years would I have expected a freakin' computer!
The other game I got was Gortek and the Microchips, a learning tool for teaching BASIC programming to kids. Opening it up we found cassettes, and looking through the manual my dad found we needed the $40 Datasette drive to play it, and bought that the next night. In October, I believe, he sprang for the 1541 disk drive, which cost more than the computer itself but, as I so often point out to Apple II worshippers (?!), the total cost was still less than that of an Apple IIE for a MUCH better computer. (even if Commodore BASIC was grossly underdeveloped; it's no wonder assembly became the standard for writing games, might as well if you'd have to POKE everything into memory using BASIC...)
In early '85 my dad got an AT&T IBM 8088 clone, 8 MhZ processor, 128K RAM to start (he later brought it up to 640) and two 5.25" disk drives. Eventually he got a hard drive that could hold a whopping twenty megabytes! Not gigabytes kiddies, a 20 meg hard drive that was a cube about five inches on all dimensions.
My dad traded the Commodore 64 to a friend for his Franklin Ace 1500, an Apple IIE compatible, getting all of his software without giving up any of ours , and soon bought a Commodore 128. These were our computers until 1993 when we FINALLY got a 50 MhZ 486 DXII. Christmas '98 was the very end of the Pentium II's run, and we got a 450 MhZ PII that's still in the kitchen and still runs almost anything. Before I moved out I had an Athlon 1.53GhZ machine built by a computer store in Countryside. 64 megs of memory on the graphics card, 256 MB of regular RAM, 80 gig hard drive, 3.5" flopppy, DVD/CD ROM drive and a CDROM/burner. Not quite state of the art, but it runs GTA.  Not long after this my dad put together a machine for himself, not quite what mine is but it'll run anything he needs it to for a good decade or so.
Oh, and I've also got an Amiga 500 I bought off Ebay a while back because I REALLY wanted an Amiga in late '88. Haven't done anything with it in a while...
--T.J.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 810
Veteran CEG\'er
|
|
Veteran CEG\'er
Joined: May 2001
Posts: 810 |
Ah... memories...
Tandy 1000
286 w/ 28KB memory
floppy drive
dot matrix printer
green screen.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 321
CEG\'er
|
|
CEG\'er
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 321 |
American Megatrends 386. The computer still runs. Win 3.1 is still very stable. Although the internet on it sux arse!
1999 Contour SE
Sony Xplod 50x4 cd player
Sony Xplod 1600 watt Class D amp
2 10" Flame-Q Audiobahns
35% tint done by Madavi's Motor Sports
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 2,118
Hard-core CEG\'er
|
|
Hard-core CEG\'er
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 2,118 |
The first computer I owned was a Tandy 1000. Before that, the first computer I used was when I was 5 years old. It was a Tandy with 2 floppy drives, and a Stringy Floppy drive. I had so many 'pirated' games on that thing it wasnt even funny.
"Moore has also accused the American people of being the stupidest, most naive people on the face of the Earth. And after last weekend, he's got the box office numbers to prove it!"
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 650
Veteran CEG\'er
|
|
Veteran CEG\'er
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 650 |
I think it was called a Columbia. But it was slow, and likely cost more than the Contour is worth today.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2000
Posts: 97
CEG\'er
|
|
CEG\'er
Joined: May 2000
Posts: 97 |
Ahh the Tandy! My first was 1000RL, 8086 whopping 10mhz and 512K memory came with *two* 720k 3.5" floppy drives. I later upgraded to 768k memory, 20mb hdd and a isa bus trident 512mb vga so I could play falcon 3.0 One day radio shack had a sale on a thingy called a modem... my addiction to the digitaly connected world began
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 379
CEG\'er
|
|
CEG\'er
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 379 |
Originally posted by CHF_Slapaho:
Ah... memories...
Tandy 1000
286â?¦
  I remember that Rat Shack had a machine that was based on the 80186 â?? a processor that never made it into any other manufacturers' PC-compatible systems; and that this system also was rather odd in a number of other ways that made it not entirely IBM-PC-compatible. I thought it was the Tandy 1000 that had these characteristics, and that it was the Tandy 2000 that was the first of that line to have the 80286.
Hyster E60XM-33
1996 Mercury Mystique GS, Zetec, ATX
To email me, remove the string HatesSpam from this address:BobHatesSpam@Blaylock.to
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 858
Veteran CEG\'er
|
|
Veteran CEG\'er
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 858 |
Macintosh performa 575
5 MB RAM
no clue how many mhz
50mb of Hard drive space
15" screen
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,360
Hard-core CEG'er
|
|
Hard-core CEG'er
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 1,360 |
i cant believe im the only one who had a Laser XT 8088...long live VGA! 
|
|
|
|
|
