My first computer was...

[nickexperience]

Commodore 128:

• CPUs:
  • MOS Technology 8502 @ 2 MHz (1 MHz selectable for C64 compatibility mode)
  • Zilog Z80 @ 4 MHz (effectively running at 2 MHz due to stopping half the time to allow VIC-II video chip access to system bus)
• MMU: Memory Management Unit controls 8502/Z80 processor selection; ROM/RAM banking; common RAM areas; relocation of zero page and stack
• RAM: 128 KB system RAM, 2 KB 4-bit dedicated color RAM (for the VIC-II E), 16 KB or 64 KB dedicated video RAM (for the VDC), up to 512 KB REU expansion RAM
• ROM: 72 KB (28 KB BASIC 7.0, 4 KB MLM, 8 KB C128 KERNAL, 4 KB screen editor, 4 KB Z80 BIOS, ca. 9 KB C64 BASIC 2.0, ca. 7 KB C64 KERNAL, 4 KB C64 (or international) character generator, 4 KB C128 (or national) character generator) – expandable by 32 KB Internal Function ROM (optional; for placement in motherboard socket) and/or 32KB External Function ROM (optional; for placement in REU socket)
• 16 KB dedicated video RAM

What a powerhouse! Its amazing how much more powerful our little phones are than that computer was. But I do remember having about 100 games for it on those big floppy discs including River Raid, Pitfall, Pole Position, etc. That just made me dream of an emulation app for the G1 so I can play all those great games again on the go!

[regdent]

I had completly forgot about the turbo switch on the front. We had a 286 cant remeber the specs.

I also remember the first dvd player we had was from creative labs came with its own video board. i convinced my dad to buy it for our computer cause the box looked cool. It was hard work trying to find dvd's in england at the time. Some guy would import them and sell them out of his house. The good ol days.

My first computer was an amiga 500. quality games like jaguar xj220 and monkey island 2 with something like 13 floppy's. man i miss switching out floppies.

[Drummerpunk]

my first pc was a PC Junior


Technical specifications

• CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77 MHz
• Memory: 64K on the motherboard expandable to 128K via a card in a dedicated slot. Later third-party add-ons and modifications raised the limit to 736K.
• Operating system: IBM PC-DOS 2.10, (Boots to Cassette BASIC without cartridge or DOS)
• Input/Output: cassette port, lightpen port, two joystick ports, RGB monitor port, composite video port, television adapter output port, audio port, wired keyboard port, infrared keyboard sensor, serial port, two cartridge slots
• Expandability: 3 internal slots, dedicated to PCjr specific memory, modem (300 bits per second non-Hayes-compatible modem available from IBM, although 2400 bit/s Hayes-compatible modems were available from third parties), and floppy controller cards. External sidecar connector capable of daisy-chaining multiple sidecars.
• Video: Motorola 6845, "CGA Plus" This chip was officially called the VGA (Video Gate Array).
  • Text modes: 40×25, 80×25, 16 colors
  • Graphics modes: 320×200×4, 640×200×2, 160×100×16, 160×200×16, 320×200×16, 640×200×4
  • Video memory is shared with the first 128 KB of system memory, and can be as small as 2 KB and as large as 96 KB.
• Sound: Texas Instruments SN76496; three voices, 16 independent volume levels per channel, white noise
• Storage: Optional 5.25 inch diskette drive or cassette. Other storage options were provided by third parties.
• Keyboard: 62 key detached. Corded or infra-red operation. IBM supplied two different keyboards, the first being the maligned 'Chiclet' keyboard, so named for its square rubber keys that resembled Chiclets. Many third-party keyboards were also available.

[mixpix405]

I don't remember the specs, but it was a "Laser Pal 286". We had Prodigy internet... if you can even call it "internet".

[Darrell]

Sorry got you all beat (probably because I'm older). My first computer was a ZX81, beleive it was called the sinclair 1000 in the US. a small doorstop sized thing with an amazing 1K (yes that 1 Kilobyte) of ram, expandable to 16K with the help of a ram pack.
The first computer I used was put together from a kit by one of the maths teachers at my school.

[Absolute]

Commodore 64...beautiful dot matrix printing, convoluted word processing, and a nice black and green sceen...had to love it.

[Wolfie]

My first personal computer was a Pentium 133mhz (turbo-switch equipped) with a whopping 16mb ram and 500mb harddrive space. Later I upgraded it to a 2x CD burner and loved IRC/Napster, made me some money in school.

Next build? Quad core pentium OC'ed to 3.2-3.4ghz, 4gb ram, ATI x4570, and 2-4tb harddrive space... Hopefully by the end of the year.

Well what do you know, my father had an old Pentium PC similar to yours before he got the far superior PentiumII... Those were the days...

Our PC requirements seem to be very similar my old friend.

[heyitsnan]

Oh man, I don't remember the actual speed of the processors or memory sizes but I do remember to MS-DOS OS ...that's what I worked on in the 80's... that was forever ago... crazy, how far we've come

[Wolfie]

Sorry got you all beat (probably because I'm older). My first computer was a ZX81, beleive it was called the sinclair 1000 in the US. a small doorstop sized thing with an amazing 1K (yes that 1 Kilobyte) of ram, expandable to 16K with the help of a ram pack.
The first computer I used was put together from a kit by one of the maths teachers at my school.

Wow, that's simply amazing Darrell. I can not imagine how 1kb of ram would benifit me. You are truely hard core. I tip my hat to you, Good Sir.

[ngerecitano]

I had an IBM Aptiva that came with a boat load of games like Silent Steel, Hyperman, and Cyberia...man, that computer was awesome...the salesman swore my dad would never need a bigger hard drive than 1 gig...then we got a top of the line Gateway...then I went to college and built my computer, and that one had to reformat at least once a month and that got old, so I switched to my first laptop which was a 12 inch Mac Powerbook G4...that sucker lasted me 4 years until last October when I got my iMac...the hard drive was going bad on the Powerbook...I transferred all of my information from the Powerbook to the iMac and incredibly, as soon as I finished transfering over the last byte of info to the iMac, the hard drive spun down on the Powerbook and never booted again...it lasted JUST long enough and I was extremely greatful to that computer