what was the specs of your first computer/?

[velocityg4]

My first personal computer was made by Renau. I wonder how long that company lasted?

486 DX 33Mhz (The specs said 486 SL but when I opened it up it was a 486 DX)
5.25" Floppy
3.5" Floppy
4MB RAM
212MB HDD
2x CD-ROM (the whole drive popped out and a lid lifted up)
14" SVGA display
Sound Blaster 16
Some Junk speakers
Whatever keyboard and mouse came with it. I still have the mouse buried away somewhere. Which I colored black with a Sharpie.
The printer was a color dot matrix printer.
Windows 3.1
DOS 6
Of course the Turbo Button. Which I had no idea what it was for at the time. It was just cool to have.

This made me remember the DOS Talking Parrot from Creative. Anyone else remember it.

 

[AppleB]

Mac Classic II aka Performa 200 $1000 in 1992 or 1993

The Macintosh Performa 200 features a 16 MHz 68030 processor, 2 MB of RAM, and either a 40 MB or an 80 MB hard drive in a sleek, compact all-in-one case with a 9" monochrome display.

I think I had the 40MB Hard Drive

Purchased at Silos Electronic Store which was like a Circuit City. Matter of fact I think Circuit City ran them out of business.

I remember my neighbor at the time built a PC and he had a 1 GB hard drive I was totally jealous and blown away about a 1 GB hard drive and I had 40 MB.

 

[MBAir2010]

My 1999 Bondi Blue iMac had a spacious 6GB hard drive, the rest was 4GB, in their faces!
i also had zip drives 100MBs and was on easy street, space wise!
today i installed a 500GB ssd drive.

 

[Calebtt]

1994 I bought it.

 

[1BadManVan]

Jeeze my first pc seems so new compared to everyone else’s lol. Mine was a Intel pentium 3 1ghz with 512mb ram I believe. Upgraded to a custom built gaming pc, P4 2.8ghz with a GeForce 4 Ti4600.

 

[brsilb]

Atari 400

After had an Apple Lisa with 3.5" disk. Then added a 5MB Profile (HD) which was huge and connected to the SCSI port. When Mac came out converted the Lisa to run Mac OS. Wow!! I feel old!

 

[Bluetoot-]

I’m pretty sure our first family computer was this Packard Bell D160. Probably got it from Circuit City. This was pre-internet for us, so I played a lot of CD-ROM games.

Multimedia D160 - Packard Bell Planet Wiki

pbclub.pwcsite.com

 

[xraydoc]

Apple LC III with a 25 MHz processor and I wanna say... 2 MB of RAM maybe?

I had a Mac LC III back in the day. Very much liked that machine. It was actually the first Mac I owned (though I worked in a computer store prior to that, so had tons of Macs to play with). Upgraded to a Quadra 605. Prior to the LC III, I was using an Apple IIGS.

 

[xraydoc]

Atari 400

After had an Apple Lisa with 3.5" disk. Then added a 5MB Profile (HD) which was huge and connected to the SCSI port. When Mac came out converted the Lisa to run Mac OS. Wow!! I feel old!

Always wanted a Lisa! Weren't they like $10 grand even back then?

 

[allan.nyholm]

My first computer was an Amiga 500 clocking in at around 7 MHz with 512 KB RAM. Later I got an external GVP+ HD with 52 MB!!! storage capacity. I got this first computer as a present during my confirmation in or around 1992.

 

[Eriamjh1138@DAN]

In 1985, I bought a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 for $30 . A display model.

CPU: 6809E
Speed: 0.89Mhz
Base Ram: 16kB
Storage: None
Video Ram: none (relied on internal ram to draw screen).
External Storage: Audio Compact Cassette

I upgraded to 64kB, added Dual 180kB floppies, a DM printer, 300 baud modem over the next year.

I wrote test reports for high school on it and used it for about 5-6 years into college.

 

[AdamNC]

Apple IIE. At the age of 10. Then my dads Mac Plus a couple years later. And many more in the years that followed. benefits of your dad owning a Apple VAR.

 

[Robospungo]

Pentium III 450 MHz with 32mb of RAM, I believe. Can’t remember the hard drive size.

 

[Maconplasma]

I had an HP Pentium 133Mhz with 16MB Ram and a CD-ROM drive. All of this was running Windows 95.

 

[Madonepro]

I'm going to win this contest!
When I was young, my dad gave me his original computer to play with. It was made by Tandy/Radio Shack.

Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III

Introduced: July 1980 Price: $2495 w/ 32KB RAM (THAT'S KB!), dual drives. CPU: Zilog Z-80, 2.03 MHz (THAT'S MHz!) RAM: 4KB (THAT'S KB!) Ports: Cassette tape, expansion, serial Display: 12-inch B/W monitor: 64 X 16 text Storage: 2 internal 178KB (THAT'S KB!) floppy drives External cassette @ 500 / 1500 baud OS: BASIC in ROM, TRS-DOS on disk

I did word processing, BASIC language programming, Machine language programming, and used it as a terminal.

Cos it's all about winning! ?

 

[profcutter]

Commodore 64 was the first. Replaced by a C128 when it died. Neighbor loaned me an Amiga 1000, I eventually got my own, an Amiga 500. When I was in high school, I worked at the commodore booth, and got a deal on an Amiga 4000 tower, with a Mac Bridge card. My first mac was a 7100, after I had to get into a legal/financial battle with commodore my first year in college after the tower turned out to be a total lemon. Had a series of Macs, including g3 and g4 towers.

 

[Nermal]

My first was a Commodore 64 with tapes. Next came an Amstrad PC-20, with 512k of RAM, an 8 MHz CPU, and MS-DOS 3.3.

 

[nixx]

486 DX2 66 MHz, 16 MB ram, single session cd-rom that used a plastic caddy And SCSI. Cost a fortune.

 

[Miat]

First one that was all mine was the 1987 SE. Been on Macs ever since.

 

[cal6n]

You owned one, I am jealous.

It was old and second hand at the time...

 

[jsamuels]

Osborne 1 / loved my CP/M and WordStar and the other provided programs

• Dual 5¼-inch, single-sided 40 track lobby disk drives ("dual density" upgrade available)
• 4 MHz Z80 CPU
• 64 kb main memory
• Fold-down 69 key detachable keyboard doubling as the computer case's lid
• 5-inch, 52 character × 24 line monochrome CRT display, mapped as a window on 128 × 32 character display memory
• Parallel printer port configurable as an IEEE/488 port
• RS-232 compatible 1200 or 300 baud Serial port for use with external modem or serial printers

 

[hodad66]

I started with a Compac "portable", I'll have to look up the specs.

"The Compaq Portable was announced in November 1982 and first shipped in March 1983,[1] priced at US $2,995 (equivalent to $7,700 in 2019) with a single half-height 5¼" 360 kB diskette drive or $3,590 for dual, full-height diskette drives. The 28 lb (13 kg)[2] Compaq Portable folded up into a luggable case the size of a portable sewing machine."

CPU	Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
Memory	128 kilobytes (expandable to 640 KiB)
Storage	Two 5.25" floppy disk drives or, optionally, one floppy drive and a 10 MB hard drive
Display	Built-in 9" green screen monitor
Graphics	Unique CGA-compatible video card
Mass	28 lb (13 kg)

 

[Quackers]

It was a HP and it had 40GB hard drive and 256MB ram. Can't remember anything else

 

[pshufd]

I just recall my first cpu it was 33 MHz and 4 megs of ram and a cd rom. to me it was the most amazing thing ever

The first computer I owned was a Sinclair that I built. Though it was just a four-function calculator. The first programmable computer that I owned was the TI-56. I then upgraded to an HP-67 which is on my desk now and I still use it from time to time. It has a magtape reader/writer, 26 entry register file, 224 words of program memory and there were program libraries available for it. I recall programming games for it in high-school. Programming is similar to writing in assembler. This computer can be found in the Smithsonian and other museums. The quality of HP products back then was off the charts. Some could be used underwater.

The first computer that I used was a either a Univac or Honeywell mainframe - the interface was punched cards and paper output; or a PDP-11 with 28K of core. This was around 13 or 14 - I can't recall which I used first. These were time-sharing machines. I also used an older PDP computer with 8K of core. I used SBCs like the ELF and the KIM but those were in high-school.

 

[Bluetoot-]

Cos it's all about winning! ?

In that case, my first computer was a Babbage Difference Engine.