ChknFngr Posted May 16, 2012 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Share Posted May 16, 2012 (edited) This was my first Personal Computer, a Sinclair ZX81 unfortunetly i dont have it no more, my dad gave it to a college and i never saw it back :/ i loved it. and i got an old IBM portable with an orange plasma screen and a kind of mouse, really weird thing that i think is running on an old dos, but not even sure about that, i'll try to find infos about it, but i dont have the model number in mind, i'll have to check. i will sell it if anyone wants it, im pretty sure some people buy those ancient useless stuffs Edited May 16, 2012 by CHKN DEEJAYKEG and PingLo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
ChknFngr Posted May 16, 2012 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Share Posted May 16, 2012 i think i found it simplemod and hxtr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Gatorgirl Posted May 16, 2012 Member ID: 2986 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 206 Topic Count: 384 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6454 Content Per Day: 1.42 Reputation: 7140 Achievement Points: 50699 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/13/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 04:10 AM Birthday: 12/19/1967 Device: iPhone Share Posted May 16, 2012 Mine was a TRS-Eighty 16K color computer, which used a tape drive, and TV as a monitor. Bought it in '82 and still have it. i had one of those as well, lol! PingLo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DragonSlayer Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 48 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 29 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 105 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 29 Achievement Points: 831 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 28 Birthday: 08/24/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted May 17, 2012 Commodore 128 was the first for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Graffitti Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 27 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 9 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 307 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 25 Achievement Points: 1712 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 22, 2021 Birthday: 06/03/1957 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Atari 1024 STF, wich was not really a PC, I admit, but was excellent at that time for graphics and music with the midi*ports standard... Than I acquired a Tulip 386 PC or something like that, with 20 megs (lol) of HD, DOS 4.0, and a windows that was just an explorer.... How time flies ChknFngr and DEEJAYKEG 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeB Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 59 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 137 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 2114 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 2333 Achievement Points: 15140 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 14 hours ago Device: Windows Share Posted May 17, 2012 Franklin Ace 1000, was an Apple II clone. Apple sued them and they stopped manufacturing them. After that I didnt get another until I bought a 286 25hz IBM clone. From there on it was a PC upgrade every year. My old ones get handed down to the kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
ChknFngr Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Share Posted May 17, 2012 (edited) Atari 1024 STF, wich was not really a PC, I admit, but was excellent at that time for graphics and music with the midi*ports standard... Than I acquired a Tulip 386 PC or something like that, with 20 megs (lol) of HD, DOS 4.0, and a windows that was just an explorer.... How time flies yea the atari were the shit. some friend of mine still work on them for their music and midi features, its fkn awesome Edited May 17, 2012 by CHKN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Bogleg Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 907 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 96 Topic Count: 126 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2731 Content Per Day: 0.52 Reputation: 3928 Achievement Points: 26177 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 19 Birthday: 02/10/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted May 17, 2012 FIrst one we owned as a family was a PC Junior. It came with 128kb of RAM, but we threw an expansion card on it to get it up to 256k. We ran a BBS in memory on it for three years called Propaganda. The first one I ever bought for myself was an IBM PS/2 55SX. 1mb of RAM, a 20mb HD and a lovely 13" SVGA monitor. I saved for over a year from my job as a short order cook in high school to afford it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Darth Yoda Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Share Posted May 17, 2012 (edited) Commode=door 64 here. At 1 hertz. Traded it in for a Commadore 128 at TWICE THE SPEED!!! .A blazingly fast 2 hertz. Caverns of Kafka was a big selling point way back when. Then my buddy picked me up an Amiga 500 that screamed at 7 hertz!!! That's .0000000002 of my current cpu if my math is correct. I quickly attached a 10megabyte HD that only cost $800 BUT I could play pool of radiance without swapping disks!! The HD case also held 16 megs of memory.Boy was I a super user!!!! The Amiga boasted 4096 colors when the IBM's were at 8. Edited May 17, 2012 by Darth Yoda ChknFngr and hxtr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Yoda Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Share Posted May 17, 2012 I remember my friends Amiga 128 also . He had a stack of 6 floppy drives stacked up and didn't have to swap disks either. Load,8,1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattlewolF Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 2028 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 12 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1740 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 545 Achievement Points: 10637 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18 Birthday: 03/10/1963 Device: Windows Share Posted May 17, 2012 No to long ago, only think in future of my new pc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted May 17, 2012 (edited) Commode=door 64 here. At 1 hertz. Traded it in for a Commadore 128 at TWICE THE SPEED!!! .A blazingly fast 2 hertz. Caverns of Kafka was a big selling point way back when. Then my buddy picked me up an Amiga 500 that screamed at 7 hertz!!! That's .0000000002 of my current cpu if my math is correct. I quickly attached a 10megabyte HD that only cost $800 BUT I could play pool of radiance without swapping disks!! The HD case also held 16 megs of memory.Boy was I a super user!!!! The Amiga boasted 4096 colors when the IBM's were at 8. My buddy had the Amiga 500, Amiga 1000 then 2000. Had VGA, IDE, Great video, Great sound and other way before PC's did. Great machine... was real sorry to see them go. The first Atari I messed with was the 400 and 800. They were cool.. Edited May 17, 2012 by hxtr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PingLo Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 Mine was a Ti 99/4a First 16 bit home computer iirc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A ChknFngr and hxtr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted May 17, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted May 17, 2012 Mine was a Ti 99/4a First 16 bit home computer iirc. http://en.wikipedia....uments_TI-99/4A my neighbor in german had one.. i remember TI Invader a Space Invaders type game we used to play. It was cool... had lots of fun with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PingLo Posted May 18, 2012 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Mine was a Ti 99/4a First 16 bit home computer iirc. http://en.wikipedia....uments_TI-99/4A my neighbor in german had one.. i remember TI Invader a Space Invaders type game we used to play. It was cool... had lots of fun with it. Parsec was one of the ultimate TI games and there was this amazing gaming possible crap here with the MBX: http://www.videogamehouse.net/mbx.html and...we had pudding pops: hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChRoNo16 Posted May 18, 2012 Member ID: 3378 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 8 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 50 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/14/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 All I remember is it was an IBM 486, sometime around 1997 or so- started with windows 95- then to 98. It wasnt a bad system, but at the time I was basically only playing Sim City 2000 xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackeklaus Posted May 18, 2012 Member ID: 1012 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 17 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 935 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 269 Achievement Points: 5547 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 8, 2020 Birthday: 11/23/1987 Share Posted May 18, 2012 dont know what my first one was called. if i remember me right it has win 3.1 and u could play "lemmings" in dos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
daz murray Posted May 18, 2012 Member ID: 871 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 38 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 337 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/11/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 16, 2015 Birthday: 02/14/1971 Share Posted May 18, 2012 My 1st, back in the day. A Sinclair ZX81, what a beast it was too lol PingLo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted May 18, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted May 18, 2012 My 1st, back in the day. A Sinclair ZX81, what a beast it was too lol i had to go look up but look what I found. hahahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PingLo Posted May 18, 2012 Member ID: 1103 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 64 Topic Count: 119 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1977 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1122 Achievement Points: 15642 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2013 Birthday: 01/01/2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 Don't go busting on Clive's ZX80 or ZX81, very nice cheap compute power for the time... hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted May 18, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted May 18, 2012 Don't go busting on Clive's ZX80 or ZX81, very nice cheap compute power for the time... im not hahahhaah just what I found as all them oldies are door stops. Now that MAC crap you run... oh yea I be busting on that. hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushape Posted May 18, 2012 Member ID: 839 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 83 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1334 Content Per Day: 0.25 Reputation: 64 Achievement Points: 7776 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 12, 2020 Birthday: 07/17/1958 Share Posted May 18, 2012 I had a Tandy 1000 or whatever it was called back in 1991. 1mb ram, 40 mb hd. Guy said this all you will need for $1,000. BS next was a HP 386, then a hp 486/66 spent over $4k fixing that up, then every 2 or 3 years I got a new one, I quit getting new cards and memory, and other shit, it was cheaper just to buy a new cum-puter. I remember when the writable CD drive came out, over $2,000. Damn it sounds like we are all getting old. You guys remember when you couldn't get a HD over 2.1 GB. It stayed that way for a few years until they figured it out, had to have partitions sizes under 2.1 gb. How times havbe changed. simplemod and hxtr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted May 18, 2012 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1074 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8438 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7300 Achievement Points: 74964 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 10 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Share Posted May 18, 2012 Our first was a Coleco Adam.. Well, holy shit. I thought I had the only of those. I guess they made two. HAHA. I even had the Buck Rogers game for that. PingLo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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