Computer history , what did you own

[archie123]

Just wondered where it all started for everyone and when

various consoles strting with the old pong type back in 1977 then.......

i got a Sinclair ZX81 with a 16k ram pack (all that memory!) around 1987 then............
Sinclair Spectrum
Spectrum 128k (it had a built in tape player and 128k of ram!!)
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga (fantastic piece of kit)

Lost in console land starting with the Megadrive the playstation 1 then PS2

got back into pc's in a serious way in 2000 when i bought one from the dreaded PC World (how was i to know i knew nothing of pc's )

then i built my first PC in 2001 and never looked back

 

[z3r010]

ZX81 - 1k
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Commodore Amiga
Atari ST

/rave break at the hacienda and bowlers for a few years

1st PC build - cyrix 233 (OC to 366)
Too many to list after that.

 

[alexdagr8est]

My first PC was a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz with an Nvidia 32Mb graphics card with 256mb of ram and a 40gb harddrive, I built it from scratch when I was 12, using nothing more than the motherboard manual, took me 12 hours to do, but when your building something you have never built before and you spent $1500 (AUD) you dont want to screw it up. installed XP from my stolen XP cd (my poor uncle) and never experienced a problem until my older sister got ahold of it 2 years ago. I couldnt be bothered fixing it, so I made my next computer, the one I have now.

 

[Tstright]

1979 TRS-80 Model I - 16k
1981 Atari 800
First PC was about 1989
then too many to list

 

[ggm]

My first experience with even seeing a computer was in the 70's when my Mother ran a "terminal" to keep up with their yarn inventory for a huge carpet mill. In the early 90's I had a web t.v. We all thought that was really something! I have had several computers since then I now have a Gateway 8GB/640 mb. What an amazing difference!

 

[archie123]

/rave break at the hacienda and bowlers for a few years

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ahhhhhhhh i didnt mention my twilight years 89-94 After Dark club (Orbit) at morley near leeds , warehouse Doncaster all the big 12 hour raves in the area Galactica etc clubbing in and around Leeds and Manchester i even frquented Bowlers a few times we may even have crossed paths..............id never remmeber though

 

[z3r010]

All I can remember from those years is :D

 

[pacinitaly]

1999 dell laptop win 98se $3400 6.4gb hdd 333mhz 256ram
2001 dell tower win 2000 $1000 20gb hdd 1.6ghz 512ram
2002 gateway tower win xp home $900 20gb hdd 1.6ghz 512ram
2003 gateway tower win xp pro $1000 40gb hdd 2.0ghz 512ram
2005 dell laptop win xp pro $1500 160gb hdd 2.0ghz 1gb ram
2008 gateway laptop vista $650 250gb hdd dual 2.2ghz 3gb ram


$8450 damn I should have had a V8 ( firebird or mustang )

 

[luckystar]

Commodore 64
Commodore 128 (Personal Computer - This was the large case version)
Nintendo 64
Gameboy (The Donkey Kong Yellow Version)
Compaq Pentium 1 (Not sure of the rest)
PSOne (The small one)
PS2 (Slimline)
Dell Dimension 8200 P4 2.2ghz - 728mb RAMBUS Ram - Nvidia 32mb (upgraded to a ATI Radeon Sapphire 256mb, then realised how crap ATI was)

My first build was a

CORE 2 QUAD Q9300 2.5ghz - Kingston Hyper-x 800mhz 8gb - XFX 780i SLI - 2x Nvidia 8800 Ultra in an Antec Three hundred

Upgraded to Striker II Extreme - OCZ Reaper-X 8gb 1333mhz

Next upgrade to include CORE 2 QUAD Q9650 3.0Ghz - Nvidia 300 Series (when released)

 

[stoneys-nutz]

After all the usual consoles, (cant remember the name of the first one, but it struggled to play pong), i first saw a PC game called Kingpin and was hooked, WOW!! on-line was great, you had to wait ages for a spot to come free just to get on a server. Playing another human and not AI, brilliant. Ah, 56k Dial up, those were the days too, lol.


1. A square box with a very small cartridge. About 1976ish. I think it was called a Grandstand games console, one racing game had cars like squished frogs.
2. The first Spectrum was a Sinclair Spectrum.
3. Then the ZX Spectrum.
4. Then the Sega Megadrive.
5. Then the NES.
6. Then the SNES.
7. Then the Nintendo 64, (GoldenEye, what a game), PS1, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360.
8. And of course, in the middle of all this, the PC. It was a monster, two and a half gig HDD lol.

By the way archie123, great idea for a thread. Happy days eh ?. Theres nothing like a walk down memory lane.

 

[archie123]

10 print "archie123"
20 goto 10

 

[Joan Archer]

Well the first PC I ever touched was in 1998 when we bought one for the kids to help with schoolwork, they did computers in school.

That was a Windows 98 machine with a 2.1GB HD and 32 MB RAM with an inbuilt modem for dial up, that was fun so was me having to re-install the OS twice in the first 6 months because the people who delivered and set it up didn't leave the right CD's plus the modem burnt out so had to be replaced. Don't forget I'd never touched a computer before this :eek:

Next came a WinME machine and after XP came out one of my MVP friends gave me a retail copy which I installed and dual booted that for a while. We got an eMachine that came with XP Home which my husband used then I got an HP with XP installed but I installed my copy of XP onto that and gave the WinME machine to my daughter to use, I had removed XP from it first

It's only in the last couple of months that the WinME machine has been taken out of the network and retired plus the eMachine went belly up so my husband had my XP and I got a new one with Vista installed which come October will be dual booting with Windows 7

 

[beauparc]

Same as many others have posted......

ZX81
Commodore 64
Amiga
and most types up my latest quad core all singing, all dancing monster.

Somehow I still miss Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy

 

[z3r010]

Same as many others have posted......

ZX81
Commodore 64
Amiga
and most types up my latest quad core all singing, all dancing monster.

Somehow I still miss Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy

Here you go then

Flash Manic Miner remake - darnkitty.com

 

[roy69]

My first computer was the TI 99/4A back in 84. Had a whole 16K of memory and speech was an aditional box.

Had a couple of consoles.

The amiga 1200 which I bought a scsi port for. I then got a second HD and a CD reader to work with it. Upgraded the memory and cpu with add on`s.

The first PC i got was around ten years ago. I am on my 5th build now (I think).
i got a laptop about 4 years ago as a second computer and backup machine in case anything went bang at the wrong time.

 

[archie123]

Same as many others have posted......

ZX81
Commodore 64
Amiga
and most types up my latest quad core all singing, all dancing monster.

Somehow I still miss Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh jet set will on my old rubber keyed spectrum 48k , took ages to load that bad boy up off of cassette tape :P

 

[JimJoe]

first one I bought was a Sinclair ZX-81. I wrote a dice program, 1 side up to 1E6 (1,000,000) sides in 1 side increments. Later bought the 16 Kb ram pack.

Amiga A1000, Amiga A500, Amiga A3000.

WinXP, Vista. a linux computer, I forget the distro.

 

[MrNeeds]

i miss the old commodore 64, having to put a tape in from a tape player that obviously looked like a big tasty from mcdonalds, and having to type (load "8",c), i miss jet set willy, ahh the old days

 

[beauparc]

Same as many others have posted......

ZX81
Commodore 64
Amiga
and most types up my latest quad core all singing, all dancing monster.

Somehow I still miss Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy

Here you go then

Flash Manic Miner remake - darnkitty.com

Ah, brilliant D Thanks very much. Now I can enjoy computing again

 

[JimJoe]

Of course, those weren't the first computers I used.

The first time I used a computer was via phone line, with a TI Silent Writer 7000. Just a keyboard and a thermal printer. No screen. Along with a 300 baud acoustical modem. Ran calculus programs on a computer about 75 miles away on a university campus. We were on a community college campus. The US government paid for the telephone time and half the CPU time. The year, 1976. I also had a TI SR-53 programmable caluclator at that time. 125 program steps of BASIC. Could read and write small magnetic cards.