Your First PC

by **(>Tool<)** » Fri May 30, 2003 10:31 pm

now as for my first computer, it was an IBM Valu-Point 386 with 8mb of ram and a 300mb hard drive, running windows 3.11. My second computer soon there after was a 486 dx-2 33mhz normal clock 66mhz turbo, upgraded from 8 to 24 mb of ram, 600mb hard drive. Third computer, a compaq 5000T 1.0 ghz with 128mb ram I upgraded to 512mb and put a GF4 mx 420 in the pci slot. Then my latest model (I actually built) 2.4ghz 1gig pc2100 ddr ram, GF4mx420 seriously overclocked(getting a better card within 1-1.5 months) and a 60gb hdd, 7200 rpm of course, 17" moniter, yadda yadda, but what a progression huh!

by **Chacal** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:01 am

I remember when I started working at my present place. There was a mighty IBM PC-AT there. 286. Oooooo! Heavy stuff.

One day a friend came with a few diskettes with a new GUI thing he wanted to try, a MacIntosh GUI wannabe that was called Windows. Version 1. We tried it and weren't impressed. No future for that toy.

by **1313-Evil_Homer** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:42 am

My mind remembers a really weird computer being the first one I ever had control over as a kid. It was a radio shack Tandy model (cant remember the model number). And if my mind servers me even better, you could load programs using a cassette tape. The only real use i found from it was playing this star wars space game that came on a cassette tape. I would play this simple few pixel game for freaking hours. Then I played the first castle wolfinstien on tape, now that game was much better and added a few more pixels

Or was all this just a dream? Then there was school, in 5th grade they had a computer with some weird ass learning program and a fishing game and some other games I cant remember. I must admit, I loved playing the damn thing! Could that have been the only fun time I have learning???

by **Bg. D-Mac** » Sat May 31, 2003 2:12 am

This is the first one I rem having in my family I was 8 or 9 yrs old when we had this baby. 20 years ago we where the shit..... lol

The Texas Instruments Ti-99/4A was one of the more aesthetically pleasing early systems, but it never seemed to catch on. It was more expensive and had a smaller following when compared to competing products from RadioShack and Commodore. Like most of these systems, software for the Ti-99/4A was run from cartridges, which Ti dubbed "Command Modules", that slid into the large socket to the right of the keyboard. The Ti-99/4A used a relatively powerful (for the time!) 16-Bit TMS 9918 central processor clocked at 3.3MHz. The RAM could be expanded up to 52k.

by **RCinator** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:47 pm

Originally posted by 44444slaughter
my first was in 1993 was a 386 ibm think pad, 80 meg hard drive, 30 meg hertz....for only 2,500 dollars, no cd rom or a sound card....I installed a sound card fx for only 250.00 my first game was a combo pack rail road tycoon and pirates by sid maire ? (sp) the master of all games ....railroad tycoon was my favorite...some sort of bug...you set up a station and buy all the comp. out and you go in the neg. and all of of a sudden your stock sky rockets and finish as tycoon in 5 years that was a great game.....I played it almost as I do wolf

It's not a bug - you cornered the market and created a monopoly!

by **RCinator** » Sat May 31, 2003 1:49 pm

Originally posted by Chacal

One day a friend came with a few diskettes with a new GUI thing he wanted to try, a MacIntosh GUI wannabe that was called Windows. Version 1. We tried it and weren't impressed. No future for that toy.

LOL - remember the first rev. of 95 on floppy? 16 floppy disks!

Never even bothered with 1.0 . . . stuck with MS-DOS and PC-DOS up until 95.

by **s.s. one person** » Sat May 31, 2003 2:23 pm

we still have all the trails dont play em much but will install em just for fun they are good games

by **Hoog** » Sat May 31, 2003 2:28 pm

Mine was an old Atari Home Computer. Looked like a C64 with the keyboard and cartridge drive on the same unit, with external floppy and modem. No clu what kinda proc that thing had. Then there was the Packard Hell 486 SX33.

by **ToastedHam** » Sat May 31, 2003 2:33 pm

TRS-80 Mod 1

by **yaDad** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:17 pm

Originally posted by Doug the Unforgiven
I played the hell out of "Phantasy" and "Phantasy 2"Good times.

check this out that i found in my collection

by **yaDad** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:21 pm

Originally posted by ToastedHam
TRS-80 Mod 1

ahhh the trash 80....us commodore folks shunned the tandy radio shack users like lepers.

yall made me go and dig my system out of the attic...is this mint condition or what?

by **yaDad** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:30 pm

cant believe none of the old farts have mentioned the ultima's
i grew up in the heyday of Dungeons and Dragons and the Ultima series was absolutely without a doubt the BF1942 of the mid /late 80's
Do you think I could get some bids if i put them up on eBay?

by **Wairudo Enjin** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 3:05 am

Beautiful!!! :cool:

Keep em!

by **angrybrit** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 3:07 am

My brain then it was the Ti-99/4A.

by **SavageParrot** » Sun Jun 01, 2003 3:46 am

Another 10 years and they will be bona fide antiques. Wouldn't be surprised to find museums buying them for display in the near future though.

Your First PC

Re: my first

Ultima IV and Ultima V

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