My first modern CPU - do you have yours?

Gave our first comp away to a needy person, so don't have the cpu.

On a sponge behind me, i do have 3 cpu's.

1. SX419 (Intel 80486 33 MHz) SX419 (Intel 80486 33 MHz)

2. SZ904 (Intel 80486 upgrade 66 MHz) SZ904 (Intel 80486 upgrade 66 MHz)

Last but not least, the cream of the crop.

3. SZ996 (Intel Pentium 100 MHz) SZ996 (Intel Pentium 100 MHz)

Got a heap of much later procs, both Intel & AMD, still in mobo's, in running order.

Jon

mickey megabyte said:

H2SO4 said:

I still have the computer somewhere - a Sinclair ZX Spectrum - though it's so small I don't actually know the precise whereabouts in my collection of slowly rusting electronic memorabilia :)

i used to have one of those too - as a young teenager it was my second favourite plaything

i used to spend many happy hours typing in pages of long programs published in several magazines at the time - then spend a few less happy hours trying to debug, before finally being able to play/use the software - ah, the early eighties, those were the days...

i believe it is still somewhere in my parents' loft, along with my brother's vic20.

I did the same thing. I found magazines and books with pages and pages of code and spent hours typing it in. After hours and hours you could finally use the program, or find out you screwed up. haha (This was on an Appple IIc)

mickey megabyte said:

i used to spend many happy hours typing in pages of long programs published in several magazines at the time - then spend a few less happy hours trying to debug, before finally being able to play/use ...

Pity that today's 'modern' operating systems do not include any

"programming language" to help those that "might" be interested...

(With, of course, an 'accurate' tutorial, or 'Help' file)

I can't c this happening -- its such a BASIC concept...

My first computer was a Toshiba with a Intel 386 and an orange screen.

i'm not really that old... *still 18* so my first CPU would be back in 1997-9?

I suppose this was the first I owned - not the first I used though ...