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

[reboot]

Dr. Gee. My dad is a tech, I'm a tech. Things come and go quickly when your family owns a computer shop

[rallynavvie]

1. Apple IIe with lots of peripherals
2. Apple Mac Performa 640CD (has both a 68k AND a Cyrix CPU in it)
3. Dell Dimension 4400 (1.6 P4), had this for barely 3 months
4. Tyan 2460: had dual Mobile 2500s in it for a while, now back to 1900 MPs
5. Iwill DH800: waiting for 90nm Xeons 8)

Now I'm on this dual CPU trend which soaks up a lot of money. The Tyan keeps up with the times despite its age. With SMP I can still squeeze a lot of performance out of it. I'm sure the Iwill, with its OCing abilities, will last for quite a while. I just hope I don't get bit by the dual-core Opteron bug in the near future

[pyscrow]

Here are the main ones - all built.

486DX4 - 100 speed machine circa 1992

Cyrix P133 (claimed as a 166 by Cyrix) circa 1994
Could fry eggs on the case with this baby! But reliable.

AMD K6III 450 (then 500 when picked up a cheap 500 chip) circa 1999
Rock solid and dependable, kids still use it.

AMD Duron 1.4 (Claimed as a 1700 or there abouts by AMD) circa 2003
Whata mistake this was - dog of a machine

Intel P4 3gig circa 2004
Finally gave in and moved to Intel based - Happy user again!

[Hardcoreruss]

Here are the main ones - all built.

486DX4 - 100 speed machine circa 1992

I was SO jealous of people who had these pc's, wanted one so badly.

[Cobra]

Just think, in ten years someone might wake this thread up and we'll all stand around it (the forum will be VR by then) shaking our heads and wondering how we ever encoded without quantum-based CPUs...

Seriously, in ten years our machines would fall into the Captain Caveman category even though today they seem to be very powerful. Remember old games that used to have stunning graphics, quite realistic and now they look like cartoons compared to the latest games? The cycle will continue...

Cobra

[Capmaster]

Home PCs:

1) Tandy 1000 (8088)
2) Generic 386SX-25
3) Magitronics Pentium 75 laptop
4) Pentium 133 desktop
5) Micron P-133 laptop
6) Homemade Pentium 2 - 350 desktop
7) Compaq Presario 1700TW laptop 1.13GHz P3-M (current machine)

Work PCs:

1) IBM PC (8088)
2) IBM XT (8088)
3) Compaq Deskpro 386-20
4) Thor 486-66 desktop
5) Upgraded Thor to 486-100
6) Micron P-133 desktop
7) Dual Pentium Pro 200 (upgraded Micron MB & case)
8 ) Homemade Pentium 3 - 600 (133 FSB)
9) HP Workstation xw-6000 3.06 GHz Xeon (current machine)

[Rookie64]

I have 3 Desktop PCs -

Started in 1995 with a 500 Mhz Intel Pentium II - win 3.11 for workgroups and updated to win 98 in 1998

In 2000, I got a Dell Dimension 4100 - 866 megahertz Intel Pentium III - WinME

In 2003, I got a Dell - 533MHz Intel Pentium 4 - WinXP

[bigmicka]

i started off with a trs-80 micro computer. its a wonder i could type on the keboard of that thing it was so small. it had the tape deck with it for storage.

then it was a trs-80 colour computer 2. the tape deck came straight over from the earlier computer so it was cool. and i can remember spending hours keying in basic examples from COCO magazine.

then i moved onto a 386/sx15 with 1.5mb of ram and 80mb hdd. i thought i was the shit.

various upgrades to that 386 box, it ended up being a cyrix 333.

i pulled out the colour coomputer 2 awhile ago and it still worked a treat.
dont know what the hell im gonna do with it.

i also have this old pong game console with paddles that also had a gun attachment with it. i starts of as a hand gun and with attachments ends up being rifle which you are supposed to use for target practice. not really a computer but it was there before i got the trs-80s and what inspired me into a technological existence.

mic

[jeex]

first computer:

atari.. i was 5 or 6 when i got this computer. i didnt know anything about it, except to put discs in the floppy drive and play the copied games my uncle gave me. montezuma!

second computer;

ibm 486sx 33mhz (not the dx with the mathcoproccessor)
4mb of ram
250mb hdd
256k on board video memory
3.1/4//5.1/2 dual floppy drive
2400bps modem
windows 3.1 (then a warex version of windows 95)
upgrades to this computer;

soundblaster 16 value
4x cd-rom, then 12x cdrom
32mb ram
14.4 bps us robotics modem
pentium OVERDRIVE 83mhz upgrade CPU (there was an extra socket on the board just for the CPU)
1gb western digital caviar hard drive
iomega 100mb zip drive

third computer;

pentium 200mhz (overclocked to 225mhz)
64mb ram
1gb hard drive & 250mb harddrive (from old computer)
(video card from old computer)
4mb creative labs video card
12x cdrom (from old computer)
33.6 us robotics modem
upgraded to 10gb western digital hdd
windows 95 -> windows 98
(this computer was lost in the great fire of '98, with my original nirvana bootleg "from the muddy banks of the murray" cd in the cd-rom )


fourth computer;

celeron 533
128mb ram
8gb hdd
56k modem
onboard video card (shared memory)
onboard sound
4x dvd-rom
4x ricoh cd burner (firmware hacked to burn @ 6x)
windows 98 -> windows 2000

and now, i have this pile.

p3 800mhz
384mb sdram
ati all-in-wonder 16mb
2x80gb/30gb/20gb hdd's
pioneer 106d dvdrw
liteon 163d dvd-rom

i plan on building a new computer in the next 3 months.. its gonna be so freakin' shweet.

[Doramius]

Other than myself, Who still has their Commodore Vic-20 or 64/128 stashed somewhere? Anybody remember the game GORF?

[Guest]

Other than myself, Who still has their Commodore Vic-20 or 64/128 stashed somewhere? Anybody remember the game GORF?

Gorf is cool.

[Doramius]

Anybody know the creators or if there is a version available today put on windows?

[stiltman]

Anybody know the creators or if there is a version available today put on windows?

emulator

Googled for MAME gorf