My first computer: 486sx/25 with 16MB RAM!
 

I had this really odd computer back in the day.
it was a 486sx 25 with 16 ram, and a 500 meg hard drive.
Well, it would run things way more powerful than it was supposed to be able to.
just it would take a while to load is all.

It was able to run win98 and Total Annihilation 64ram maps perfectly on only 4 megs of ram, when i removed some just for the heck of it.
They just took a while to load.

It didnt know what it wasnt supposed to be able to do.
it was rather funny. My Fiends and I used to joke about how if u added stuff to it i'd eat it and become more powerful, like the south park episode about the trapper keeper. But this was way before that show exsisted.

Ah memories.

My first Hard Drive was a 10MB seagate :lol:
It crashed on me after about 3 months of use, and they replaced it with a new "WOW" 20MB model (also Seagate). :hihi:
And I remember saying to myself: "20MB, I'll never be able to fill that" :mrgreen:
Ahhhh, memories of around 1983 :D

-kwag

Yes, well my 1st comp expierence was with a 486 66 of my dad's.
My 1st computer was a 486 25, not the amazing one.

Mabey a Computer history is in order, oldest to current.
486dx2 25
486dx2 50
extra 486sx 25 - amazing one as a secondary for parallel cable multiplayer gaming :)
P133
Amdk6-2 300
P3500 (self built)
Athalonxp1600+ (current) (self built)
Fun fun fun.

My first PC, after my Atari 800, was a whooping 4.77Mhz "Tava PC" :lol:
It was an IBM clone, with 640KB or RAM :lol:
That's the machine that had the 10MB HDD :)
I still remember I had a Monochrome ( Green ) monitor (forgot the brand), and the graphics card was a "Hercules" monochrome card.
I used to play "Flight Simulator", and it was so cool to see the (wire frame) plane and scenery :mrgreen:
Times have changed :cool:

-kwag

My 1st multiplayer Computer Game ( via null cable) Command and Conquer original. Fun Fun Fun...too bad there was no computer ai to play against, so i had to beat the crap outta my friends.

My first contact with a Computer was an Amiga 500. I've been one of the first owners in Germany.
I've played alot and programmed my physics homework with it (VB) and always had good results 8)
I remember a friend having a Commodore 64 about two years before. He plotted a ferrari with his printer (B&W).
Man, was that amazing at this time :bigooh:

How "decadent" *lol

At that Time I did my experiences on assembler using a Commodore 64 inlcuding that BIG storage Floppy 1541!!
20MBs I didn't know at that time the word MB, only KB .... ;-)

Well next time I'll try to get one full completo C64 incl. 1541 Floppy and a carton full of games on floppy disks at EBAY (price maybe 30 Euros :D ) .... just to do a remember "reunion" with some old friends and playing the whole night those games like Shoplifter, Fort Apocalypse, Mission Impossible "... stay forever!!", Zaxxon etc.

:D

One of my favorite games of all times :D

-kwag

I LOOOOOOVED!!! Loderunner!!!!!!!! And its Scene editor!
Thats ONE of the most importand reasons why I want again a C64!
I know the adaption for MAC but its not as good as the C64 original in its graphics reduced version.

:!: :D :!:

Eh i got to the scene late, missed some of those classics, My old fav was Commander Keen, Played the hell outta that game.

My first home computer was a Sinclair Spectrum + with a whooping 48K of memory and those beeping sound effects in games lol. :) Those were the days.

Later i got a Amiga 1200 with a built in HDD and a huge 127Meg Hard Drive i thought things couldnt get better than that, i still have my A1200 for nostalgic reasons.

I got all my old game consoles for nostalgia reasons, I'm still pissed that my dad sold my atari for 10 bucks. GRRRR

My First?
COCO2 with 4mb memory. I expanded it to 16 mb for 700.00 and people went ooooooooo. HAHA
The external floppy drive 5 1/2 was 799.00 Radio Shack.

My most horrid memory?
I bought a DX4-66 loaded to the nines (at the time) for 10,600.00. I cashed in mutual funds to do it. erf!
The computer is worth about 1.50, the funds? ... dont go there. :lol:

wait no. sorry.
Color Computer. CoCo 2 came out later, I had that too, with 32 k of memory. ooooooooooooooooooo

That was a nice machine Eightball :D
If I remember correctly, it had a 6809 processsor. Very nice chip :!:

-kwag

Truth is Karl, I bought it for no reason other than to show off. I had no idea what good the processor was, my knowledge of computers and the time I had to invest in them, I could easily have stuck with the TRS-80 that replaced my coc02. I remember being amazed by a program in (at that time) the only computer magazine published whic you had to manually key in the code line by line. The program was called "the Creator", or something like that, where you would define what your idea was for a peice of software, and it would write the code. gOSH! i WAS SO Thrilled. I spent a month with that thing, and it SUCKED!
I should have got a commodore 64 and pushed it to its limits. Seems like all the youngsteres who did that are pretty adept computer wise now.

Theres something to be said for starting small, pushing yourself to know all your machine can do, wishing for more power, capabilty, and then one day, when you've pushed your machine as far as it will go, and your own knowledge has developed, and the hours you spent wishing for a new one resulted in 100's of ideas for what you can do with the new one, you do it.
Ahh that must be satisfying.
When you just go out every few months buy all the latest crap, because someone else says so, or you read it was good, theres no satisfaction.

Hmmmm... I'm talking an awful lot. Must be the cerveza. :roll:

my first computer was the AMAZING ;) Spectrum+ with 48K of memory ... wow :P My first PC was a 8088-10Mhz with 640KB and 20MB of HDD with a horrible black and white monitor (of course better than a green monitor) ;)


My prefered game? GAUNTLET!!!! multiplayer with only one computer ;)

Haha..
We just told everyone how O_L_D we are. :lol:

My first computer was a dragon 32. I remember spending days with my dad's stereo trying to copy games from tape to tape. His stereo never did recover from trying to tape Ugh! The classic game of trying to steal Pterodactyl eggs and avoid the T-Rex.

And lets not forget Chuckie Egg!

Cheers,

Hey rhino, you're really a dino :mrgreen:
( Just like me and others here :P ) :lol:

-kwag