my first computer system

edwin said: "do you remember yours? here's some stats on mine 286 processor! 1mb ram 35 mb hard drive 2400 bps modem 11 inch monitor dos and windows 3.11 lol, tell me about yours!"

SlitheryImp said: "Our first home computer was a Sinclair ZX80. Squishy keyboard (it was flat), 1K memory and a standard tape recorder plugged into the mic jack functioned as a storage device. We had a more powerfull machine also for my dads work, I'll see if I can find a pic of it tonight. Now I feel like an old man, that pic is from 25 years ago, lol."

edwin said: "oh man! a sinclair! that's vintage :D"

quinny said: "mine was a G5 :D"

Heather said: "Mine was a Windows 95 machine. I think it was a Hewlett Packard?"

edwin said: "better than a packard bell, att least."

Darksat said: "166MHZ processor, 5GB hard drive, 64MB ram, CD drive, 15 inch monitor, windows 95, about 8-9 years ago. and its still running today."

edwin said: "damn, you never upgraded! what a cheapskate."

Darksat said: "LOL, you cheeky bastard, its at my parents place, its what my mum uses to play solitare and check her mail on, I got her a sempron 2400 for christmas, but its still waiting to get delivered cause they forgot to put in a CD burner. so my old G5-166 has 2 more days life left in it."

edwin said: "bigtony never got his first system. he still posts from the library."

Heather said: "[QUOTE=Darksat]LOL, you cheeky bastard, its at my parents place, its what my mum uses to play solitare and check her mail on, I got her a sempron 2400 for christmas, but its still waiting to get delivered cause they forgot to put in a CD burner. so my old G5-166 has 2 more days life left in it.[/QUOTE] That was a very generous gift, Darksat! I hope Santa was good to you in return :)"

Darksat said: "Well I chipped in with the rest of the clan. I picked the specs though."

mike_fwt said: "Well, if you don't count game consoles (like my vintage 1979 original Intellivision - which still works), then it was a Commodore 64 purchased in 1985-86 or so for Xmas. I had a few games and a floppy drive (just missed the tape drive days). I also remember doing a lot of stuff on the old Apple IIe machines in High School. I liked to play "Karateka" and "Decathalon" back then. I also remember buying and using 3.5" floppies when they first came out on that machine."

Darksat said: "if you do count gaming consoles I have an old Atari 2600"

edwin said: "gaming consoles are close. i mean they're probably people's first experience with a "computer"."

Heather said: "I remember that my 8th grade computer class featured Apple computers that had "command prompt" monitors. We did our projects using feed paper, black and white ink. I think that was in 1982/83. Damn.. that was a long time ago. :eek:"

Darksat said: "I just realised that windows 95 is a decade old and isnt really quantitively worse than XP. yes Im aware XP is better but for a decade of computer revolutions you think it would be a bit more advanced. windows 2000 is still just as good as XP IMHO, what the hell have microsoft been doing for the past 5 years. No wonder linux has totaly outstripped windows in terms of quality."

ali said: "Microsoft windows Xp Proffesional (5.1 build 2600) Intel default system BIOS intel(r) pentium(r) 4 CPU 2,40 GHZ memory 256 Mbram hardisk 40 gb ----------- it is my frist computer -------------- until now i still use it... :) thanks .. are that enough to me to use to desaign website.. i don`t really know .. give me idea .. :)"

edwin said: "that should be enough ali."

Darren said: "My first computer was an 80286 Laptop from Zenith. After that I bought a Tandy 80286 with DOS and DeskPro (there version of an O/S). LOL. What crap."

Darksat said: "Ali, those specs are more than enough."