Other Lol at my first PC specs - found invoice today!

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  1. Somer_Himpson

    Somer_Himpson What's a Dremel?

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  2. SpAceman

    SpAceman What's a Dremel?

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    Was a Mac Performa 5400. Its sitting in the corner of my room right as I type this. It had 16MB of RAM when we got it but it was upgraded at some point. I couldn't tell you what it has now. It started with MacOS 8 and ended up with MacOS 9. Still has DOOM 2 installed and I even have the original disk in its case around somewhere..
     
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  3. enterobsidian

    enterobsidian Hopless World Wonderer

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    BBC micro (I think a model B). Had TWO floppy disk drives! Tucked away somewhere in the loft.

    Thanks to this I now feel like fetching my Spectrum ZX - with flashy printer - and try an connect it to a tv...

    Cheers
    Enterobsidian
     
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  4. soopahfly

    soopahfly Minimodder

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    Commodore 64, which was broken and then swapped with a 16+4.
    Then a Vic20, an Acorn Electron, then breaking into PC's with an 80286.

    Pah, Kiddies :D

    We'd never even heard of Quake :D
     
    soopahfly, 10 Apr 2012
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  5. Somer_Himpson

    Somer_Himpson What's a Dremel?

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    ZX Spectrum.
    How my parents afforded the £130 asking price is beyond me!
    My Dad was a bus driver who liked a bet and my Mam worked in a greasy spoon opposite the train station!
    Introduced me to new worlds.
    Jet Set Willy
    Knight Lore
    Elite etc
     
    Somer_Himpson, 10 Apr 2012
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  6. Jipa

    Jipa Avoiding the "I guess.." since 2004

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    We had something similar when I were a kid. I remember it running tetris and paint, but not having a color screen... :eyebrow:
     
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  7. noizdaemon666

    noizdaemon666 I'm Od, Therefore I Pwn

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    I can't remember my first 2 computers, they were some bog standard something or other and then a Packard Bell. The first I remember I got when I was 16 (all those 5 years ago :p). It was custom built at the shop I now work at for me.

    X-Galaxy Case
    Generic 500W PSU (WINPower I think)
    AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (I asked for a 3.2GHz CPU, what I got was a 2GHz CPU which performed about the same as a 3.2GHz Intel :duh:)
    ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe
    4GB DDR 400 (£180 :rock:)
    80GB IDE HDD
    7600GT GPU (Win something branded)
    IDE DVD drive
    17" Cybox monitor (well 2 actually, I took the first back the day after buying it because of a dead pixel)
    Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse (the mouse is still the main mouse used with my current rig lol)

    I had a fairly good introduction to the world of computers compared to some on here :D
     
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  8. Guest-44432

    Guest-44432 Guest

    Yeah, mind didn't have a colour screen. Just one colour...Green font.:)
     
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  9. Coltch

    Coltch Minimodder

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    Started with a ZX81 followed by a ZX Spectrum (rubber keys), Commodore 64.

    First PC was a Sanyo MBC550 with a single 160KB 5 1/4" Floppy and MS-DOS 1.25, Had an Amstrad PC1640 before 286/386 and 486 machines (DX2-66 swapped out for a Pentium Overdrive! @ 83MHz)
     
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  10. enterobsidian

    enterobsidian Hopless World Wonderer

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    I'm getting all nostalgic now, I'll have to dig my old systems out and fire them up now....

    Enterobsidian
     
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  11. Bobman

    Bobman What's a Dremel?

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    Ours was like that too. Low res also - called CGA I think?
     
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  12. Coltch

    Coltch Minimodder

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    Just fired up Robocop on my ZX Spectrum :)

    Sent from Bittech Android app
     
    Coltch, 10 Apr 2012
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  13. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead It's big, and it's clever.

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    You sire, are worthy of respect. You also make me wanna dig out the Amiga 600 in my Mum's loft. :)


    I love green screen monitors... makes me feel like I'm in "War Games" :)
     
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  14. azrael-

    azrael- I'm special...

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    They don't make WOPRs like they used to. ;)
     
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  15. Behemoth

    Behemoth Timelord in training

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    Tandon XT (IBM PC Clone)
    8086 CPU running at 4 MHz I think
    640 KB of RAM
    20 Meg MFM HDD
    3.5 Inch abd 5.4 Inch Floppy drives
    14 Inch Philips EGA monitor and a Hercules EGA GFX card - spoilt lol

    Used to spend hours on that machine, I think my old man skipped it in the end :(
     
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  16. RichCreedy

    RichCreedy Hey What Who

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    commodore vic20, commodore 64, amiga 500, amiga cd32 with sx1 module, some form of 486 which i added 96mb ram too, amd k6 on a wait for it pc chip mb, intel celeron when k6 died, pentium 4, core 2 quad x6850 is current desktop.
     
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  17. dirky90

    dirky90 Minimodder

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    had an old mac with 4mb hdd and 40kb of ram. lemmings all the way!!!!
     
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  18. Guest-44432

    Guest-44432 Guest

    What a game!

    My favourite was;

    Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
    TMNT
    Chase HQ 1 & 2
     
    Guest-44432, 11 Apr 2012
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  19. jizwizard

    jizwizard Modder

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    my first beast
    [​IMG]

    still got it in the loft
     
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  20. lilgoth89

    lilgoth89 Captin Calliope

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    my first pc we got is about 14 years ago...
    cant remember the specs now, but it had an ugly upside down T shaped case
    the mobo had one slot for a sister board to plug into it with all the expantion slots
    got it from dixons...and we had no end of problems with it...
    but once we got it fixed...it ran smoothly for YEARS ( seriously i could still play civnet and the original sim city on it )
    windows 95...16mb ram, 10gig ide hdd...intel pentium 233mhz
    came with a 15" crt with speakers mounted to the monitor ( the speakers STILL work beautifly )

    [​IMG]
     
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