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i think it was 286 DX
What was your first computer?
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New #102
A 286 with 512KB of memory, it was on board. No more memory could be added, slots were bad. It was a gift from my brother in-law. It ran MSDOS 5.x with a program call GeoWorks graphical interface. That was in 1992.
GeoWorks (PC/GEOS) Version 1.2
GeoWorks was a step ahead of Windows but they didn't market it like MS marketed Windows so they died.
From there, 3-5 months later, I bought a Dell 486 and that was the last desktop I ever bought from a company. Have been building and fixing my own and others since then.
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New #103
My first real computer was a Tandy 1000TX. By the time I replaced it I had installed a 32 MB hard drive, VGA graphics card, Sound Blaster and a 2400 bps modem. Bought it new in January, 1988.
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New #104
Love reading these tales from the dawn of the computer age. Great stuff! Some of you are real pioneers. As for me, I came late to the party.
My first was an IBM Thinkpad E600 (running Windows 2000), built back in '99. I got it in 2007, at a yard sale, for $50.
A few months later I stopped by a friend's company just to say hi. Turns out he just upgraded all their computers that very day, and I walked out of there with a Dell OptiPlex GX50 (XP Pro) for the best price possible -- free! It was a few years newer than the Thinkpad, and a whole lot quicker. Had a rockin' 512mb of RAM and a 20G hd. That kept me happy for about a year and a half, until 2009 when I built my current one.
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New #106
Year-1971-I used a computer at a NAPA parts store I worked at. There were Terminals at each of 3 branches and the "main frame" was at one of them. connected via dedicated phone lines. The computer was the size of a refrigerator, had a hard drive consisting of 10-12 14" metal disks. To order from the warehouse one dialed the number and placed the receiver in the modem and waited for the connection.
My first PC was given to me by a bro-in-law, Windows 95, 16K RAM (yes, 16K) with a HDD of 480 or so megabytes. He bragged, "That's almost half a gig." It had a TI printer tractor-fed continuous paper dot matrix.
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New #107
1st PC of mine is a Compaq desktop 133 mhz upgraded to 166 mhz, 2 x 64 mb of ram (EDO), PCI nvidia VGA card 64 mb, 10.2 gb maxtor hardrive, 15" NEC monitor, infrared mouse.
softwares installed:
Windows 98 2nd Edition
Office 97
Norton Antivirus
Autocad 2000Last edited by rbeldua; 28 Apr 2011 at 18:57.
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New #108
Think my first computer was hamster driven.
I remember purchasing a separate math chip for it! Remember those days?
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