all them years ago ,what was your first pc ?

First ones i played with were 8086 /8088 back in the mid 80`s sometime ,pga golf and tetris were the in thing at the time ,Lotus 123 and some graphics programme i cannot remember the name of at the minute were the in thing in programmes
edit ..its come to me now ..Harvard Graphics

first pc i bought was a 286 with a whooping 40 meg hard drive and a color monitor

ZX spectrum 48k

I still remember the games for it now

I also remember inputting machine code for hours on end and then when you clicked on run, the bloomin thing never worked

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DIY | Donnas dream house

Our first computer was an Amstrad PCW8256. My youth was spent on steam engines, (not railway locomotives). I should have been working with other "piston and cylinder" arrangements

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I started out with nothing, I still have most of it.

Directmail scam information site: http://astrocat.proboards.com/index.cgi?

I built my own from a Z80 chip and lots of TTL chips. 1k ram, 256 bytes eprom and a teleprinter for keyboard & output.

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I should be dead; I've cheated the Grim Reaper yet again by surviving my third heart attack in June.

comadore pet 16k various games
oliveti 8086 something or other, lesure suit larry & the land of the lounge lizards
escom 486 base model

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i love being married
it's great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life

First computer
Amstrad CPC-464, with green screen monitor, dad went chasing a tv modulator thing to get colour but by then they had stopped making the things took it out a few months ago and it mainly still works, forgot how long it takes to load stuff off of cassette tape

Second

Amiga A600 - big leap forward in ability, even beats a pc in that it could load games without loading all of the OS into memory.
Still works also, just needs the joystick port repaired (couple of pins snapped from joysticks being plugged and unplugged over the years)....wonder where it is hiding actually

First PC I bought was one I built

Celeron 400 (oddly worked better when clocked to 500Mhz), 64MB RAM, 13GB HDD, 15" monitor (stupidly bought it instead of a 17" as my idiot lecturer convinced me that there "wasnt much difference, 17"s take up too much space", somehow he was head of IT courses.... ), full tower case (now being used as a table by my brother ) oh and the joys of windows 98...

I thought that only happened to me! My favourite was a plane piloting thing that used to freeze. Kids of today don't know how lucky they are do they?

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If at first you don't succeed, ask UHM in your hour of need!

ZX81, with a 16kb ram pack, not that you could have called it a PC, it was barely a calculator. I did prefer the 48k Spectrum with the rubber keys, Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy were the shiz. I just used to hate loading from tape, watching the lines for 5 or 10 miutes and then it crashed at the last. We had tip-ex on the volume control of the tape deck for the optimum load volume.

Ha! The geekery.

I just built a new pc before Xmas, 3ghz Dual Core, Asus P5QL-e mobo, Nvidia 9600GT GPU and 4Gb of 800 mhz RAM on XP Pro. I would have gone Vista this time for the extra RAM capability but Vista doesn't handle audio as well as XP and I do a lot of audio, DJing and the like.

Nice to know there's some folks out here who know their computers as well as their chisels! I guess it is all just tools though innit

fo' shizzle

PC kit is getting lower and lower quality, just had my spare dvd writer die so replaced it with a 9 year old pioneer slot loader dvd-rom drive from an old machine, still works fine....bit noisier than the newer optical drives, but tolerable.

Snap!

Built 3 months ago, e8400 3GHz Dual core, Asus P5QL-E, 4 GB ram with 64 bit Vista Ultimate 2X 500GB HD in Raid 1, plus 1 hot spare.

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I should be dead; I've cheated the Grim Reaper yet again by surviving my third heart attack in June.

OMG those are all new computers, now I am about to show my age. First program I ever wrote and first computer I ever used was an Elliott 502 in Fortran back in errr 1965. This sat alongside and Elliott 803, which was the upmarket water cooled model with 8K of memory. Anyone remember the ramifications of dropping a stack of Hollrith cards?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Br ... er_company)

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Old Gits Know Best ... I think

bbc model a and b at school, the commodore 64, oric 1 something else i cant remember the name of with a game called zarch i beleive

zx spectrum as a teen..........jet set willy is a classic

Then nothing till 1998. From then I got into it proper.

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aaaah remembered it, Archimedes

acorn electron, couldn't afford the bbc, used to play the game Elite on it then played it on my mates Commodore 64.