I got my first PC in 1997 ...

Since I moved from an (almost) 3rd world country, I've never even used a mouse up to that point... and when I got it.. wow

IBM - PII 266Mhz - 64MB RAM - 7.8GB HDD.... $2000

I still have it too

-Emo

ZX Spectrum here...

Not quite what computers are today - lol.

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Kühl

this is my first computer. just been upgraded a few times.

Original:
20 gig hd, 1gig processor, 128 sdram.

then
20 gig hd, 1.2 gig, 128 ddr

now
20 gig hd, 1.2 gig, 256 ddr, new motherboard, and most harware.

next
80 gig hd, 2+ gig, 512ddr+

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My First Computer was a Spectrum ZX81 with 4bit graphics (Black and White) and a huge 12k of RAM, I move upward and onwards and got ZX Spectrum 48k+, a huge upgrade with 8bit color graphics and a massive 48k or RAM.

Then I really moved up in the world and got a Commadore Amiga 500 with 1Int Floppy and 3 Ext Floppies, I then lept up to the 1200 series. After a year or so I got my First PC. It was a DX2-66 with 32 Mb Ram and a 4Mb Voodoo Card, it didn't even have a modem lol. I upgraded that to a DX4-100 with 64 Mb RAM and I have that for about 2 yrs. I was faster than a new P100 that had been launched about 6 months after i bought it . It had Windows 3.11 as its OS. I miss the days of DOS...

I then got a P2 400 with dual Voodoo 2 Cards (8Mb each) and it had a massive 64 Mb or RAM. From that I got my old IBM Intellistation and upped that eventually to 2Gb RAM and Dual Pentium Xeon 2.8GHz processors.

My Latest machine is an AMD 3.2Ghz Dual Core x4 Black Edition Processor with 4Gb RAM and a nVidia GF8500GT 128Mb card. The card is showing its age.

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how'd you find such an old thread?

my first computer was an Amiga 2000, it got upgraded to have 2 disk drives, which allowed us to copy games...
it has 2 joy sticks with autofire and for sound we had to connect my dad's radio to it.

as for specs well.... hell if i knew what such things were back then. those were the good ol' days where you just flipped a switch and the computer was ready to load the disks... none of this having to wait for an operating system to load that you get these days


we then got someone elses computer... a 486 (whatever that means), had a 33Mhz processor and 1.99GB hard disk space. i dunno about RAM and other stuff... again i had no clue what all that meant, but just knew what the processor and hard drive was... oh and it had windows 95

the next computer was a massive leap... 1.66Ghz, 60GB hard drive, no idea about RAM and all that...
fun times... oh, and it had windows XP on it


i moved to an Asus laptop with 40GB hard drive, 1.66 GHz intel processor, 512MB RAM, 128 intergrated graphics, 15.4" wide screen, and bloody good wireless that would pick up the neighbours wireless router

now i have a stupid Acer with all their hacks and making the laptop even more unstable, and the stupid glossy screen, and crappy wireless that can barely pick up our own router a few meters away. on the plus side it's a hell of a lot more quieter than what the Asus was. although it still makes lots of sounds with the fan, even when it's sitting idle

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that's a "Ch" pronounced as a "K"

Computer skills I should have:
Objective C, C#, Java, MEL. Python, C++, XML, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS, FXScript, Clips, SOAR, ActionScript, OpenGL, DirectX
Maya, XSI, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Motion, Illustrator, Flash, Swift3D

I started with a Commodore 16, then a Commodore 64, then an apple mac 2, then an Amiga 500, there was a big gap when I didnt have a personal computer, just used works, so I had various pentium 2's, 3's, and then I bought my old desktop.

AMD athalon 1700, 1gig RAM, 40gig HDD, Gforce 4000, currently i'm using my dell XPS laptop and its great! And Ive got a custom build 40% overclocked core 2 duo with 4gig ram, watercooling and SLI gfx.

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"No pressure, no diamonds" Thomas Carlyle

My first computer was a 286... it was very obsolete by then, but my dad wouldn't let me play with the Pentium II. It ran DOS and I used it mostly for QBasic and old games. I then went through 386s and 486s until I could finally use a 90 MHz Pentium with 32 MB of RAM! That was when I started to play Quake II, AoE and StarCraft and that is how I forgot everything I knew about QBasic... I might have become better at programming now if it weren't for those games!

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C. P. U. Its not a big processor... Its a series of pipes!

Like few ppl here started out on the old C64 waiting hours for anything to load off that tape drive only to find someone had recorded Radio 1 top 40 over my weeks of work.

Then moved up to an old P486 with 200mb HHD and tiny 14" (color) monitor After that it was straight onto a Althon 64 system with Ati 9800XT card adn 19" CRT.

These's days i'm working with 24" Intel IMac 2.8 Core Duo

Ckyuk

One of those old macs those all in ones it was $1500., Now I have a 1.6 GHZ dual core with a gig of ram internal graphics card all into a somewhat bulky laptop

i think my first was a p1 at aboot 100 mhz or 133... not sure which it was, it had a whopping 64 mb of ram, i think it was on windows 3.1, but i quickly upgraded to 95

now im pretty happy with a dell optiplex 520gx, i think next im gonna get a dell xps to gold me over then build something custom