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Your first computer

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Gothmog, Jun 25, 2003.

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  1. Ofelix

    Ofelix The world changes, we do not, what irony!

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    Well Since I'm relatively young (15) at least compare to you I've used my parent comp for the last 8 years, but I bought mine last Fridays

    AMD athlon 2100 Mhz or 2.1 Ghz :p
    A geforce 4 128 mo
    the sound card is on the mothercard but is a equivalent of a sound blaster
    512 mo Ram
    Win XP ('o course what other OS as many game as Windows?)
    80 gig Hard drive!!!!

    So your ram was 48k ? :eek: wow...
     
    Ofelix, Jun 26, 2003
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  2. dmc

    dmc Speak softly and carry a big briefcase Staff Member Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    @ DM - you betcha. 48 whole K of whopping memory. Mind you, that was enormous for the time. At least I had a floppy disc instead of a cassette tape reader as storage. Nothing worse that those commodore pets with the tapes. You'd have your space invaders or whatever on the tape and, if you looked at it cross-wise, held it near a light bulb, or audibly cursed -- whoosh, there goes your data.

    Let's not even get into the computer I first worked on. A PDP 20/20 mainframe with a paper-only terminal run through an underpowered phone line equivalent at 110 baud (220 on a good day). FYI, that's like your 56K dial up modem divided by 500 for purposes of calculating speed. (The actual computer, by the way, was in another town and was the size of a small office building.)
     
    dmc, Jun 27, 2003
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  3. Laches Gems: 19/31
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    A Tandy 1000 (or Tandy something or another, think it was 1000).

    I distinctly remember buying a computer years ago that had 1 gig and everyone I talked to saying, "oh yeah, that is huge, that'll last you a long, long time." Liars.
     
    Laches, Jun 27, 2003
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  4. joacqin

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    Heh, Sprite, I had one of those too! But I didnt get it until -89 or so. Inherited it from my uncle. I never could get it to work properly. That whole thing with casettes and fastforwarding was too advanced for me. I had this huge basket of casettes full of games though. The only times I could use it was when my uncle came over and started it up for me. :) I was not and is not the most technical of persons.
    Later in -94 I got myself an Amiga 600!!! Now this was some powerful sheit! :D
     
    joacqin, Jun 27, 2003
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    I started with a C64 in 1989 (or something). I still have some games, i.e. "Guship".
    Then, I moved on to an Amiga 500. Ah, to play Turrican with that excelletn soundtrack again...

    My first MS-DOS Pc was a 486.
     
    Fabius Maximus, Jun 27, 2003
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  6. SoCo Gems: 9/31
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    Dell Inspiron 8100

    I bought it in the year 2000, or was it 2001. :confused:
     
    SoCo, Jun 28, 2003
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