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tandy trs-80 i think (cant remember exactly what it looked like lol). plugged into the tv and used tapes and cartidges.
not sure if its 'modern' by the thread title, but the next one i had was a 386
My first modern CPU - do you have yours?
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The first CPU out of a computer I actually owned: Celeron 2.4 GHz 400MHz FSB
First CPU I bought to build a comp (Current system): Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz G0 Stepping
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Ah, EMS and XMS. Imagine how much confusion those schemes would cause on a forum like this!
Given the specs, I'm going to guess that system is circa late '86 or early '87. From memory, OS/2 Presentation Manager didn't arrive until several years later, by which time nobody wanted it anyway
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My first PC was a 386 based, Samsung branded beige box back in the late 80s. Unfortunately, I broke it somehow. I still have the Samsung 14" monitor lying around - VGA resolution FTW!!
The next one was a 486 based custom build in the mid 90s. I still have that processor lying around somewhere at our old house.
From then on, I have preserved everything, right from the CPU to the mobo, RAM and other components - Pentium Pro, Cyrix MII 233, PIII 733, Duron 1.2Ghz, P4 2.4Ghz, Athlon XP 2400+, Athlon X2 5400+, C2D E6300, C2Q Q6600, i7 920 & PhenomII 945.
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My stuff says "By late 1987, the 80386 had been shipped ...", so that sounds about right.
Mine was a Z-386/25 with 8 megs in it, at the time.
The 2 MB box without extra memory was about $850.
The OS/2 Presentation Manager was available in 1988 in version 1.1 SE.
I went OS/2 after vers. 2 (1991), where they put the 'good stuff' in:
1. 32 bits
____ Demand paging
____ Multiple DOS sessions
____ Windows 3.x compatibility
____ Workplace shell
2. True dependable multitasking...
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I started with a 6502 in my Atari 400 with a cassette player. I'm also guilty of spending hours typing in code from magazines. Then I bought a Z-80 add-on box that plugged into the accessory port of the Atari. I was able to run the CP/M OS and Wordstar. The Z-80 box also let me connect a TRS-80 floppy drive. I was hot stuff. I still have a 2'x2' poster that shows the inside of the Z-80 with all the details.
After that I ran Windows 1.3 on my 8088 Compaq. That 10 Mb hard drive had so much room and 640 Mb of RAM was awesome.
My new machine has an AMD Phenom II x-4 955 BE, a 1 Terrabyte drive, and 4 Gb of RAM but I do look fondly on the past.
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ah the memories of the past.
Ok so the first machine I got my hands on was a Tandy 1000
Tandy 1000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That lasted for years, until I bought my own machine which had a Pentuim-Pro 90mhz chip. Scary thing is the P-Pro is still running fine the thing is a damn tank, I should take a pic of it running one of these days but knowing my luck thats when it will die, when i prove its still usable lol.
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First real one I had was a C64. Wish I still had that sucker.
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