What was your first PC

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Leo 2015-04-30 04:25:08 UTC #1

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Daffy 2015-04-30 11:19:17 UTC #2

Hey I still got one of those. And really 640k is more than enough.

Allen1980s 2015-04-30 16:21:15 UTC #3

IBM PS-2 Mod 25 WITH 10 Mb hard drive !!

kcal 2015-04-30 16:51:00 UTC #4

The quote was actually, "64 K is more than enough"
Yeah, ThAT's how old it is in computer terms.

Daffy 2015-04-30 16:53:11 UTC #5

Hmm was it really 64k and not 640k? I remember my first PC having only 128k I think.

kcal 2015-04-30 17:02:34 UTC #6

Yeah Daf it really was 64 k. Hey by the time I saved up the $5,200 to buy my first computer they were coming with a whole Megabyte of RAM!

mharter 2015-04-30 17:07:44 UTC #7

My first computer was a Packard Bell with 1mb RAM and 40mb hard drive. Quite the beast by todays standards...

sharklasers 2015-04-30 17:09:14 UTC #8

I bought a GateWay 2000, which came in a brilliant cow print box. Had the CD drive option, but not the 5 1/4 inch floppy diskette. It needed an additional soundcard to be able to play Starcraft on.

wpstudio 2015-04-30 17:09:52 UTC #9

Sounds juicy... I first played with a Wang 2200 but my first one I purchased with my OWN money was a Rainbow Digital 100. A whopping 64 kB of memory... oh wait don't turn it off... you'll LOSE EVERYTHING. Someone forgot to write "save" functionality...

Daffy 2015-04-30 17:10:38 UTC #10

Well my first system was a 2 5 1/4 floppy drive system no HDD then I bought a 10Mb HDD it was a full size 5 1/4 drive.

suchmoon 2015-04-30 17:19:05 UTC #11

One of those started failing and corrupted a database in one of my first jobs... and the last backup tape was obviously unreadable. Had to manually reconstruct the database from a few megs of raw data. Try that today with all those terabytes and encryptions and clouds.

Daffy 2015-04-30 17:21:36 UTC #12

LOL yeah the last big DB I worked on was 500Gb

InsaneMiner 2015-04-30 17:23:11 UTC #13

Was technically the family computer but i remember having to save games to a cassette tape.

sburn 2015-04-30 17:38:40 UTC #14

Lahroon 2015-04-30 17:56:32 UTC #15

I had a dx4-120. 100% constructed from parts I managed to mooch for free. Threw in an 8mb voodoo 2 to go with my epic 4mb matrox millenium gfx card and I was fragging/lagging away on quake 2 with my 28.8 modem in no time. I was also paying a fortune per minute to be online. Good times

For first computer and not just PC it was a c64. The newer model which looked a bit like the amiga I really wanted. Had been tinkering with 'em ever since my brothers zx-81 with its totally overpowered 16k ram pack. He also had a c16, vic20 and a plus 4. Also good times

TheBeardedMann 2015-04-30 18:26:22 UTC #16

I don't remember the first but I do remember my parents IBM Thinkpad that almost came to a screeching halt when you would win on solitaire and the cards started bouncing around.

Allen1980s 2015-04-30 18:28:00 UTC #17

I still have a Grid portable in the closet. I managed to get Windows 3.1 loaded on it. Lovely, innovative, monochrome amber display.... I just feel so techy today.

Nadeaup 2015-04-30 18:39:33 UTC #18

Atari 2600 with Basic programming cartridge
Commodore 64 (tape drive + then a 1541) 2 phone lines for my BBS!
Commodore 128 (1mg floppy - sfd1000) --- unlimited storage for me BBS
8088 4.7mhz clone
80286 with 12mhz TURBO!!!!
80386sx
80386 Running Desqview (I think that was at this point) and Fidonet for 2 line BBS!!!
486
p90 etc....

DirtFighter 2015-04-30 19:13:06 UTC #19

Leo 2015-04-30 20:19:20 UTC #20

I wish to point out that my post was in reference to something of DoucheCanoe's™ sites going down. It wasn't anyway to start a discussion on your first PC and was relevant to the thread and location in the thread.