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re: Spin-Off: What was your first computer?
Posted on 1/25/15 at 8:48 pm to Warfarer
Posted on 1/25/15 at 8:48 pm to Warfarer
Gateway 2000 P4D-66. The one pictured is a little different.
'Gateway's P4D-66 Best Buy is a big winner among this month's budget desktops. This $2415 office workhorse's performance surpasses that of most DX2-66 systems that have CD ROM drives installed. Furthermore, expandability is excellent: You get three 16-bit, one 16-bit or PCI, and one PCI slot free. In addition, the Gateway's compact case provides four free storage bays.
This PC features a solid basic configuration, with 8MB of RAM expandable to 128MB, a 256K secondary cache, and a generous 540MB IDE hard drive. Graphics are driven by an ATI AX0 PCI accelerator board that has 2MB of DRAM. '
I think ours had a 2 GB HD. I remember my dad having to buy an external modem (28.8) and a CD drive to install. I wonder what ever happened to that thing? My how times have changed.
'Gateway's P4D-66 Best Buy is a big winner among this month's budget desktops. This $2415 office workhorse's performance surpasses that of most DX2-66 systems that have CD ROM drives installed. Furthermore, expandability is excellent: You get three 16-bit, one 16-bit or PCI, and one PCI slot free. In addition, the Gateway's compact case provides four free storage bays.
This PC features a solid basic configuration, with 8MB of RAM expandable to 128MB, a 256K secondary cache, and a generous 540MB IDE hard drive. Graphics are driven by an ATI AX0 PCI accelerator board that has 2MB of DRAM. '
I think ours had a 2 GB HD. I remember my dad having to buy an external modem (28.8) and a CD drive to install. I wonder what ever happened to that thing? My how times have changed.
This post was edited on 1/25/15 at 8:54 pm
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Posted on 1/25/15 at 8:59 pm to nolanola
Apple Mac IIci, I think.
Posted on 1/25/15 at 9:11 pm to TigerRob20
Remember the Gateway Country stores?
Posted on 1/25/15 at 9:23 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
quote:
Where did you get that keyboard? The PCjr was ridiculed from the outset for its chiclet keyboard, and that ain't it.
I wasn't even in pre-school at the time, but I'm sure I remember it having a "normal" keyboard, not that weird chiclet keyboard I'm seeing on Google images.
My parents must have gone the extra mile to upgrade out of that weirdness, lol.
Posted on 1/25/15 at 9:26 pm to nolanola
Tandy Color Computer 2
Posted on 1/25/15 at 9:33 pm to BruslyTiger
Tandy 1000.
This post was edited on 1/25/15 at 9:35 pm
Posted on 1/25/15 at 9:58 pm to Bestbank Tiger
quote:
Commodore 64
Posted on 1/25/15 at 10:10 pm to CountryVolFan
Commodore 64
Posted on 1/25/15 at 10:16 pm to nolanola
I started out on the old TRS-80 consoles, with the cassette drives, in 1st grade. We eventually upgraded to Apple IIe's at school. My first PC was a Quantex with 100mhz pentium, 16mb RAM, 850mb hard drive, with Win3.1. I had a voucher for Win95, when it released. It had a 14.4 modem that I used to connect to Excalibur boards and Kermit into LSU's internet service. My first Internet experience, at home, was text based for a while.
Posted on 1/25/15 at 10:17 pm to ZugZug
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I wasn't even in pre-school at the time, but I'm sure I remember it having a "normal" keyboard, not that weird chiclet keyboard I'm seeing on Google images.
My parents must have gone the extra mile to upgrade out of that weirdness, lol.
PCjr Baller Edition, maybe. I guess IBM kept at it a while longer than I remember. I'm waiting for a Coleco Adam owner to fess up. IIRC, it came with a daisy wheel printer.
Posted on 1/25/15 at 11:09 pm to nolanola
Posted on 1/26/15 at 8:53 am to nolanola
IBM PS/2 Model 30
Posted on 1/26/15 at 9:00 am to nolanola
This post was edited on 1/26/15 at 11:01 pm
Posted on 1/26/15 at 9:46 am to jennyjones
Posted on 1/26/15 at 9:47 am to Bestbank Tiger
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Commodore 64
Posted on 1/26/15 at 9:57 am to nolanola
I was a C64 -> Amiga 500 -> PC guy.
Yeah, buddy, I can use tape recorders for storage and dial up bulletin board services - wanna make something of it?
Yeah, buddy, I can use tape recorders for storage and dial up bulletin board services - wanna make something of it?
Posted on 1/26/15 at 10:54 am to nolanola
Timex-Sinclair, which was almost completely useless. The next year I got a Commodore 64 which rocked.
Posted on 1/26/15 at 5:38 pm to ELVIS U
Vic-20 with a cassette drive
Posted on 1/26/15 at 7:14 pm to ELVIS U
quote:
Timex-Sinclair, which was almost completely useless.
But it was a computer for only $99!!!
Posted on 1/26/15 at 10:55 pm to nolanola
circa 1988
386DX/25
1MB ram
40MB hard drive
386DX/25
1MB ram
40MB hard drive
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