What was you first computer and a short history till now?

[stiltman]

My first computer was a TRS-80 model 1 and 2 in 1977
Then I got the expansion port for it with the floppy drive and more RAM
My second computer was an IBM 386SX in late 80s
My third was a Packard Bell P60 in the mid 90s
I did have an Apple IIe sometime in there but I never really liked it
Then I built my own P 166 in the late 90s in my pict on my desk but I ubgraded it to a 200mhz
Now I have a modified Dell tower 2.6ghz and a Dell laptop 1ghz

[curryman]

Atari 400xl with tape drive and basic language cartridge and Galaxian and centipede.
I thought i was the kid.
Remember writing out the weeks tv listings for bbc 1/2 & itv (all we had then) and saving them to tape and doing my best handwriting on tape sleeve.
i'm blushing while I write this

sought of found girls then and didn't buy another until i got married and had kids and bought a tiny pc, I can remember the salesman telling me that i would never fill my 5.64gb hard drive - yeh! right.
got two now - medion 3ghz 200gb bla,bla and then there's the kids slightly less spec but still a very decent machine compared to the Atari

[gitreel]

1.a 486
2.then a e-machine 366 mhz celeron
3.after that I built my own
4.I now have two amd systems

[BobV]

a 33mhz cyrix 486
then upgraded it to an evergreen 80mhz
built an overclocked celery 300 which ran at 450mhz
then upgraded it to a pentiumII 600 mhz
built my curent athlon 1900
(with less than $200 I'll rebuid that 600mhz into a athlon 2600mhz soon)

[awlchu]

1. Commodore VIC-20
2. Commodore -64
3. Amiga 1000 (best OS!)
4. Amiga 2000
5. Pentium-90
6. P2 -400
6.5 Celeron 1200
7. P4 2.4 Mz etc. etc. etc.

Most fun - P4 with video apps

System that had the most potential - definitely the Amigas they were outstanding machines for their time......

Someone told me they're still popular in the EU. Is that true?

[888888]

000. Space Shooter LCD game from Woolworth
00. Gameboy from 1989.
0. VTech "My First Computer" or something LCD "laptop
1. Some kind of 386 or possibly older. (not mine personally)
2. Toshiba Infinium Pentium 133. (not mine personally)
3. AMD K6-III 400 computer
4. AMD K6-2 300 computer (not mine personally)
5. AMD Duron 1.1 GHz (current)
6. DeskNote laptop AMD Athlon XP 2000 (not mine personally)

[housepig]

1. Coleco ADAM - cassette tape storage.
2. Packard Hell 486 SX/25 - 4mb RAM, 107mb HD
3. TriGem P-166 - 32mb / 2gb
4. homebrew AMD K6/2 350
5. homebrew AMD K6/2 500
6. homebrew AMD Athlon 900 / 256m / 120gb - main box
7. homebrew AMD Athlon XP 1700 / 512m / 280gb - video box
8. homebrew AMD Athlon XP 2400 / 256m / 90gb - audio box

tons of surplus / refurbish boxes as well - I think at the most full, my basement had 18 working pc's, mostly Compaqs.

right now, 6,7 & 8 are running, 3 is lounging around somewhere, and I have five or six surplus boxes earmarked for parts or scrap.

[SquirrelDip]

- Atari 400
- Atari 600XL (it was a gift when an uncle upgraded)
- Zenith 8086 (8mhx TURBO!), 2 floppies - eventually installed a whopping 30Mb hard drive.
- ALR 286 - upgradable, eventually became a 386SX
- Home Built 486-66 (all were home built from this point)
- Pentium 133
- Cyrix 166
- Pentium 233 MMX
- Celeron 300A, overclocked to 450Mhz (friend is still using this as an internet box)
- AMD 350
- PentiumIII 600
- Dual PentiumIII 866
- Celeron 900
- AMD Athlon 2400+
- PentiumIV 2.4C, overclocked to 3.0GHz (has run stable for almost a year)

The Dual P3 motherboard eventually bit the big one and the P3-600 is now a P3-866 server.

The Celeron 900 is now the other P3-866.

The Old Dual is now the Athlon, processor and motherboard for CDN$160 - was able to use the old RAM

Have had countless video cards, currently the two fastest machines are using an ATI 9800 Pro and an ATI 9500 Pro.

[offline]

Remember when War Games came out. Few gave a hoot
about computers until that movie. Suddenly everyone
wanted one and kids with experience were no longer
SF freaks - they were "computer wizards".

[redwudz]

PURCHASED:

Commodore VIC-20
Commodore 64
Amiga 1000
Amiga 2000
Mac 7200
Mac G4 733 (Upgraded to 1.2GHZ)
486SX Packard Bell

HOMEBUILT:

Celeron 400
AMD 800
AMD XP1800
AMD XP2500 Barton (Present machine)

This doesn't count about 9 machines I have assembled for other people and ones I put together to use at my job, then sold off and replaced with a upgraded machine. I liked the Amiga too, still have one, but it was severly crippled by the video out system.

[tompika]

Sinclair ZX-81
Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Commodore 64
Commodore Plus 4
P133
P200
AMD1200
P2.66GHz

[Guest]

P166
amd 850
athlon+3000

[andyp1]

VIC20 198? when they were new
Bit of a break
486/33 1995
P166 WIN95
1100 Duron running XP (WOW!! Thats when I became hooked things started to hit the fan)
Currently
main > XP2200
Second > XP2000
Third > Duron 1200
Forth > Intel Celeron 466
I wouldn't mind but there's only me to use them.

[reboot]

Homebuilt, circa 1970.
2.2mhz IBM cpu, 4k RAM, 2 x 12" sssd (32k each) floppys.
Monochrome.
Ran on a bastardized version of CP/M.
Used it for compiling/decompiling Pascal and assembler mostly.
2 hours max uptime, something would melt. Rip apart, replace/resolder, go another 2 hours...ad infinitum.
Estimated cost $22,000

Osborne 1, circa 1980
2 x 5.25" ssdd floppys, built in 5" mono (green) monitor.
Again on CP/M.
Still have it, still works!
Pricetag (used) $2000

Uncountable 286/386/486's, probably over 20 at least half homebuilt.
First 286 cost me over $3000 and the hard drive was optional and another $2500 for 20 meg.

P166MMX Homebuilt.

Uncountable PII's and PIII's, definitely over 20. All homebuilt.

Athlon XP 2000+ Homebuilt.

Athlon XP2500+ Homeguilt. (sic)

[Guest]

Homebuilt, circa 1970.
2.2mhz IBM cpu, 4k RAM, 2 x 12" sssd (32k each) floppys.
Monochrome.
Ran on a bastardized version of CP/M.
Used it for compiling/decompiling Pascal and assembler mostly.
2 hours max uptime, something would melt. Rip apart, replace/resolder, go another 2 hours...ad infinitum.
Estimated cost $22,000

Osborne 1, circa 1980
2 x 5.25" ssdd floppys, built in 5" mono (green) monitor.
Again on CP/M.
Still have it, still works!
Pricetag (used) $2000

Uncountable 286/386/486's, probably over 20 at least half homebuilt.
First 286 cost me over $3000 and the hard drive was optional and another $2500 for 20 meg.

P166MMX Homebuilt.

Uncountable PII's and PIII's, definitely over 20. All homebuilt.

Athlon XP 2000+ Homebuilt.

Athlon XP2500+ Homeguilt. (sic)

You must be hard on your machines

[Doramius]

Here are my computers. Don't quote me for sure on the early ones and the dates with them, I'm lucky i can remember my own and my wife's name in the morning these days. it's a good day if I remember to tie my shoes.
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-Modicon TapeMaster Select #80 - 1970's
-Commodore VIC20 - 1980's (Have somewhere in a closet still)
-Commodore 64/128 - 1980's (probably in the same closet)
-Apple IIe - 1986
-IBM PC 386 - late 1980's (upgraded to 486 in early 1990's)
-AST Pentium 133 - 1994 (upgraded to 266 a year or 2 later if I remember right)
-Some other computer with PII - 1998 (I think it was a Gateway with Jabil MoBo)
-Gateway SOLO 2500 400MHz Celeron notebook - 1999
-Soyo 7ISA+ & 700MHz Celeron - 2001 (upgraded to 900MHz 6 months later)
-I had an Emachines somewhere in this time
-Soyo P4VGA & 2.2GHz Celeron - 2002 (Still Have)
-Asus K8V Deluxe Socket 754 & Athalon 2800 - 2003 (Still Have)
-Chaintech ZNF3-150 Socket 754 & Athalon 3000 - 2003 (Still Have)
-Mach Speed - X-Caliber PT800DBP & P4 3GHz - 2004 (Most Recent Addition)
Looking to add a server and some new switches soon to have LAN parties at my home rather than at the reception halls I've normally had them at. It's annoying when breakers pop and 70% of the people who brought UPS have them on the loudest audible setting.

[reboot]

Dr.Gee, nope. A majority of them are still running in one place or another. They all end up getting sold.
I know for sure one of the old 286's is still in use as a receipt printing, point of sale system, on DOS 5.

[Guest]

Dr.Gee, nope. A majority of them are still running in one place or another. They all end up getting sold.
I know for sure one of the old 286's is still in use as a receipt printing, point of sale system, on DOS 5.

Why the quick turnover?

[Ripper2860]

TI 99/4 A with cassette recorder and acoustic coupler modem (1978)
PC Jr.
Clone 8088
Clone 80286
Gatewway 80386/SX20
AT&T Pentium 100 o/c'ed to 133
IBM Pentium 133 o/c'ed to 150
Home Built AMD K6/2 300 o/c'ed to 333
Home Built Celeron 333 o/c'ed to 601 w/ Peltier *
Compaq PII 350
H/P PIII 500
Home Built Celeron 600 FCPGA o/c'ed to 900
Home Built PIII 600 FCPGA O/C'ed to 852*
Home Built Athlon 1000 T O/C'ed to 1526Ghz+
Home Built Athlon XP 1700+ O/C'ed to 2.052GHz*
Home Built Athlon 2500+ Barton O/C'ed to 2.316 GHz*

+ victim of a Artic Silver mishap.
* = still got them and going strong!!!

Been at this a while. Qualifies me as a "Geek"!!

[teegee420]

Commodore Vic-20
PC Compatible 8088 XT
Home built AMD 700mhz
Home built AMD 1.3ghz
Home built AMD 1700+
Home built AMD 2000+

[northcat_8]

commadore 64
PBell Pentium 60 - win 3.1
Home built 800 Mhz (I think) - win98
Home built 1.0 AMD - winXP
433 laptop - winME
Home built 2.2 AMD - winXP
HP 2.2 AMD notebook - winXP

Of those I still have and use the

433 laptop
2.2 AMD destop is what I am typing on now
HP 2.2 AMD notebook is what I take to "work" and use when this one is rendering or encoding.
The 1.0 Ghz was a damn fine machine, it's in pieces now, but I am putting it back together.

[rgs_uk]

1987: Amstrad PCW9512
1989: Cambridge Computers Z88:

http://www.algonet.se/~dennisgr/z88.htm

1992: Amiga A1200
1994: Amstrad NC200 portable
1996: Cyrix 586
1999: AMD Athlon P200
2003: AMD Athlon 1300 (home built)
2004: AMD Athlon XP2200 (home built)

[stiltman]

Can't beleive I'm the only one to own a TRaSh-80

A lot of commadors though

[fmctm1sw]

Can't beleive I'm the only one to own a TRaSh-80

A lot of commadors though

The TRS-80 was the first computer I ever used. It was in 10th grade. 1988. I found one at a flea market a few years back and still have it, along with the rest of my collection I've bored everyone with about 100 times.

[vcd4ever]

1. Sinclair ZX81
Upgraded from 1K RAM to 16K RAM

2. Sinclair ZX SPECTRUM (48K RAM)

3. Sinclair QL
Upgraded from 128K RAM to 896K RAM and a 3.5" floppy

4. Spectravideo MSX 728
This is the crappiest computer i have ever bought

5. Commodore AMIGA 500
Upgraded to 1MB Chipmem, 2MB Fastmem (16bit), 4MB Fastmem (32bit), 28MHZ 68040 TurboCard, 240MB HD (SCSI), 100MB Iomega ZipDrive (SCSI), Extra Floppy

6. PC Cyrix 486 DX2 80MHZ
12MB RAM, 402MB HD, 10mbit NIC, 100MB Iomega ZipDrive

7. PC INTEL PII 400MHZ (i'm still using it, so read my profile for details)

The only computers that are still working is the ZX Spectrum, Amiga 500 and the 486.

vcd4ever.

[Cobra]

Here goes:

- Commodore 64 (v. limited edition)
- Apple LCII
- Apple LC475
- Apple Performa 6400
- Apple iMac G3 Rev. B
- Dell Dimension 4300

Finally:

- "Zephyr" - my current machine, built it myself

I will get another Apple machine when I can afford it, but I will always have a PC too.

Cobra

[VCDHunter]

Sinclair ZX81
Commodore 16
Atari ST
Pentium 75 (IIRC)
AMD K6 2 500Mhz
AMD XP 2000+

I am starting to mull over new MBs and CPUs now.

[Guest]

I don't see any 64s. Anyone ventured into this relm?

[energy80s]

A Texas Instruments TI-99/4A in the early 80s. Then nothing until a 25MHz 386 in 1996!

[Hardcoreruss]

Some old school Packard Bell - 2mb ram 40mb hard drive
Spectrum 128k +1 (dont forget the one)
486sx 33 (I know a big gap)
Athlon 900mhz

Current

Encoder - p4 2.53/1024 ram 550mb hd
Gamer - p4 3.2/1024 ram 1tb hd
Worker - 1.7 centrino/1024 ram 80hd