I started with a 8086 (XT) in 1988. Had a CGA monitor which looked like a microwave oven with the buttons on the side.

C64

"Memories"

I think it was a 286, and I bought it from where I worked for about forty dollars. It had the enticing green and black screen, and had too little memory to have Windows so it was a Dos only job. At the moment I'm still only using a 200 mhz pentium. However, *ta rah!* I'm about to buy a new laptop. :Brain:

I had a 386 laptop that refused to work with its own display, so we had to hook a full-sized monitor up to it. It had DOS 5.0 with DOS Shell.
I think I still have it around somewhere...

Commodore 64.
First with a tapedrive, but I got 1541-floppydrive soon after that... so now more 'Load Error" for me after coughing to loud during loading :)

it wasnt mine, but my uncle had an original atari 800 in about 1980. not 800xl, an 800.

my first computer was a commodore plus/4

My first computer was an MSX. Not sure what year it was but it was quite a few years after the thing was origionally released.

I can clearly remember this:
1995 - My parents were tricked into buying a PC to assist them in their jobs.This was what my brother told them.In fact they were buying it only so we could play games on it.It was then when i fell in love with DOS, and it's games.It was a 386, the absolute best you could get at that time here.I remember the way it went perfectly.I remember where the store was, how much it cost( 1 million lei-romanian currency, which by today's dollar value would mean something like 30 bucks :) )

Atari 65XE with a California Access FDD and a tape player. :w00t:

$30 is not a lot of money but I bet 1Million Lei was.

Yes it was really expensive for that time

This computer I am on now. upgraded any times.

My dad bought 386 when I was 3. I remember playing civ on that 'machine' (it was the best computer then)! :D

Dad got a Macintosh SE in... um... 86? Later some other Apple-model we had a Hidem 1200 buad modem for and ran Compuserve and had access to INTERNET in 89..
Go my own Amiga 500 in 90 i think, and Amiga 600 HD in 92 (?)...
First PC was 94 i think..... Compac Presario 486 DX2 -66.. still think to this day that my Amiga 600 PWN the Compaq!!! ;)

maybe. but a600 is the worst amiga. i know, i had one. a500 was better, and obviously, a1200 was better than either.. especially with 030 50mhz and 16mb ram n_n

Some comp that used little black cassettes... kinda like a smaller, thicker version of gameboy games, pitchblack. Dunno much 'bout it, as I was incredibly young back then, but my nephew made a program on it that asked 'bout the weather and such, then drew a triangle. After that, it was some computer with a green'n dark green screen, no HD, DD disks and floppy disks on which we played Block Out and Prince of Persia, and dad typed on using some very basic text editor. A bit after that one, dad got a 286 from his work, which was written off there, along with a 386 laptop with monochrome screen. That one was where I learned Dos on, having to call a friend how to start the games he gave us (Titus the Fox and Stunts)

First comp was a TI 99/4A with an external tape deck. Purchased an external floppy 5 1/4 later. They packed some killer text adventures in those tapes! I remember one called Pirates Cove. It had excellent 16 color images that went with each page of the adventure. I also later invested in T.E.X.E.D., it was a voice synth that could be attached via the com port in that back giving it text2voice support.

I sold it after about a year for a C64..... hey...... you couldnt beat a C64 at the time......

Oh.... Its a bit off topic.... but somebody gave me an old Archimedes A7000. Theres one problem, it doesnt gave a monitor and I cant find one on ebay. Im just dying to see whats on it!! :ranting: :D

A real UFO technology. Bought it in 1994.
80mHz Pentium
16Mb ram
and VGA monitor
1,44 floppy
1gb HD

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Released: 1985
CPU: MOS 8502 @ 2 MHz, Zilog Z-80A @ 4 MHz
Sound: 3 channels of sound
RAM: 128K, 512K max.
Display: 16 colors, 640 X 200 max, 40/80 X 25 column text
Ports: Serial, video (composite), RF video (TV), RGBI (hi-res), expansion (game cart), Control 1,2 (joysticks), user port, cassette
Strorage: internal 340K 5-1/4" floppy drive
OS: BASIC in ROM, CP/M

It was in a year now long forgoten, back in 1983. It was early winter with no snow yet. My father, my brothern and my grandma went to Austria and smuggled back to Jugoslavija a Commodore 64. It had a tape drive and was hooked to the TV. They also bought the original game GHOSTBUSTERS with it. But alas, they forgot to buy a joystick... So no games untill next week.

Ever since I just loved the old C64 (still have it, and it's still hooked up to my TV). Still works and has a 1451 floppy drive too. Great machine - and probably older then quite a few of our regular mambers here :D .

I got a 25mhz DEC in like '95, still runs. ^^

maybe. but a600 is the worst amiga. i know, i had one. a500 was better, and obviously, a1200 was better than either.. especially with 030 50mhz and 16mb ram n_n [/b][/quote]
Between regular A500 and A600HD, A600HD is much better just because of HD. A500 was more compatible. And yes, Amiga was better gaming platform then PC at the time.

I had A500+ with HD and 1.5MB of memory. :) (Kickstart 2.04)

But before that I had C64, which was great for games at the time.

First computer I touche was ZX Spectrum 48, and first basic program done on Apple II. :blink:

My first computer was C64 that I got from a friend in 1994, and it didn't work at all, so I couldn't use it. :rolleyes: LOL
5 months after I got a 486DX2 66Mhz PC, and it was my first computer then. Imagine, I used it until 2002, upgraded to Pentium 100 though, before I got the current P4 2.4Ghz, now upgraded to 2.8 Ghz. :D

Whats your processor now?

486DX4/100 with 800 MB HDD (later another 2,1 gig one was added) and 4 MB RAM (later upped to 8 and even later to 24), with a 1 MB video card (and none of subsequent upgrades worked so I was stuck with that). This was ten years ago. PC was sh*tty, maybe, but reliable up to its last hours. Expired on October last year.

Now I have 1,75 Ghz processor, 512 Mb RAM, 80 gig HDD and, I think, 128 MB card. Now that's SOME serious power...

My family had a C64 but I was too little to know how to use it.
Then in 95' My father opened up a PC arcade(not really sure how to call it)
We had 3 PCs (two 486 and one pentium) and a few sega consoles.
It was to play doom against human players, at first the whole neghboorhood was coming bu the business was ended iin 97' cause there was not enough money to upgrade hardware, and people were slowly getting their own PCs/consoles.

P4 HT 2.8Ghz. ;)

Do u know what mean the hyper threading?

Cyrrus Instead - 486 100MHz
16 MBram
800 MBytes
Video SVGA

It´s very old, but was good.... is good remember that time, thank´s. :max:

Hyper threading is a form of multi-tasking developed by intel. It speeds up certain programs that support it but as always it is more hype then substance (at least for now).

Hyper threading is a form of multi-tasking developed by intel. It speeds up certain programs that support it but as always it is more hype then substance (at least for now). [/b][/quote]
Specifically, Hyper-threading is the ability of a PC to load independent instructions threads into idle stages of the CPU's parallel super-scalar pipelines. :crazy: To the PC, it is masked as a separate virtual processor. In reality, it can actually slow you down if the virtual processor is waiting on the availability of physical processor resources, but most of the time it's a good thing. My post-graduate work @ Carnegie Mellon Univ. was on processor design and fabrication... Anyway, enough techno-babble. :blink:

My first PC was a Unisys brand 286/10 slimline desktop. It came with a 20Mb Seagate ST-157 MFM drive + controller, a single 5.25 High Density floppy drive, 1024K RAM, and PVGA (Western Digital Paradise) 16bit ISA VGA card.

Before getting rid of it, I had added another 1meg of DRAM DIP chips, a Sound Blaster 2.0 card, Best Data 2400bps modem (later, a USR Sportster 14.4), 80287 MathCo, and 2 port serial card w/ 16550 uarts.

I missed it so much, now have a collection of old school PC's.

My first experience with a computer was a Timex Sinclair back in elementary school. It was I think one of the first computers available for home (before Apple) and I remember being picked from my classroom with several others to learn some Basic. i think I was 6 at the time.

Soon afterward when I was maybe 8, my parents bought a used TI-99 since we were too poor for anyting else, so I didn't even get any software. I had to type in all the source code manually, line by line for any game I wanted to play using basic until I could figure out how to connect a tape drive to backup my games.

Later when I was 11, my dad was doing better in business so he could afford to buy me a brand-new cutting edge Apple IIe, with dual disk drives and a shiny green screen monitor. Woohoo! I was stoked that I didn't have to type in code anymore and that I could simply buy games on floppy to play. =) Although I did buy Computer magazines and books and typed in Basic games line by line and compile them, so I could learn Basic better.

I even remember learning some Assembly language. I had to even type in the compiler code all in HEX code from a book! Crazy to think I was doing this at 11 years old. I think I would have continued with computer programming but my friends wanted me to spend my savings on a drum kit rather that a 10mb hard drive, so we could start a band. Glad I went the band route, rather than the hard drive at the time because it made me more social and meet girls, a good time to start doing so at junior/middle school level. =) Although I wonder where my programming skill would be now if I had stuck with it back then.

my first pc was a 386 I think. My dad upgraded it to a p1 and brought the ram to 16mb (WOW :blink: ). Ran dos and windows 3.1 W were poor at the time so he would go to the junk yard and bilt a pc from scratch. Ah Memories, I had the grey windows tile wallpaper. My dad made a awsome batch file were I type my name and a list of games pops up, were I press the number according to it. Ie. if the list was

1. Doom
2. Wolfenstien 3d
3. Monster Bash
4. Commander Keen

then to play mb I would press 3. Really nifty program he made there :) The pc was fried and I rebuilt it, sadly it isn't the same, has p-pro with 64mb of ram with dos/win 3.1.... just not the same. I am gonna cry a nostalgic tear... :cry:

486 i still have it !!!!

My first was an Apple IIe. Love that hardcore mouseless action. I've been a mac owner since day one. Didn't get a windows box until last year. My first modern OS found itself on a Performa (can't remember the number, but it was a Power PC, not a 68k). The way I ended up on a site for DOS games is due to the influence of a certain aunt of mine. Cool lady, always loved the adventure games, too.

Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Then in the end I had to get a PC.

feminista: Yeah it's hard to believe we got by without a mouse for so long since using a mouse now is so second nature to me.

I remember talking recently to a friend the other day about how it's tough for me to get used to Emacs or other Linux (non-mouse) text editors and I then I realized, hey I used to do that all the time. My Apple IIe didn't have a mouse and I was using it as my main word processing machine until the early 90's. Heck even when I did get eventually get a PC, I just always booted into DOS and hardly used Windows, because Windows at the time, 3.1, was so lame compared to Mac GUI's.

Anyway, many fond memories of Apple IIe. Even though I still have the original machine in my garage, I'm afraid to try and boot it up. I'd be too sad if it didn't work anymore. But hey thats why I can use emulators. =)

Apple ][ *luv*

386, 2mb ram, 4mb hard drive, DOS. LOL

was fantastic little thing, had turbo which ment it ran right up to windows 95 and ran games needing pentium 2 processsors etc

My first compuer was ether 486 that later got upgraded to a p1. I rebember playing raptor(shareware) and mortal kombat. ah good times, good times :ok:

A nice, bautiful Windows 95 with 150 MB.
i had never problems with it.(i was 6 when i get him)
(i STILL have it somewhere in this house)