My first computer was a Epson 286 with a 20 meg HD I double spaced it to 40 meg hd <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> Soon after that I got a P100 and about 15 after that .
We had an Apple IIe at home. I'm trying to remember the year, because at one point we got a mouse for it and played with "MousePaint" software. I swear this was long before 1984, when the first Mac came out, but my memory fails me. In any case, we had color monitor, "dual" disk drives and an ImageWriter too.
My first computer was also my first Mac: February, 1994 I bought a Quadra 610 w/CD-ROM at MicroCenter in Tustin (Orange County), CA.
Check out these kick-ass specs:
- 25MHz 68040 processor (zing!)
- 8MB RAM (I promptly bumped that sumbitch up to a whopping 32MB RAM...and spent $279 to do so...sigh...)
- 230MB hard drive (that's MB, okay?)
- 1MB VRAM
- 2x CD-ROM
- floppy drive (of course)
Cost $1799. In March of this year I spent $1799 to buy an LCD SuperDrive iMac.
Also, had to buy a keyboard (Apple wasn't shipping keyboards with their systems then). Spent over $100 for an ADB Apple Extended Keyboard.
To cap it off, I then spent $429 on an Apple 13" Trinitron display in glorious 640x480 resolution and 16-bit color (thousands of colors...dither city!).
That last me until February of 2000, believe it or not, when I bought a tangerine iMac DV.
Which, in turn, was replaced in March by my new iMac.
I've owned only three Macs in eight-and-a-half years.
Timex Sinclair that never got used except to play cell or whatever it was called. Boy that was an exhilarating game.
Atari 1200XL
Corona "portable" - yeah right. It weighed like 65lbs
Mac IIcx
Quadra 700 (a blazing 25mhz).
PBG3 250mhz (still have it).
iMac 333mhz
iMac G4 Superdrive.
Of course, when I was in college I used to use a 128K Mac. 38 disc swaps to load the word processing program I used. I think I just vomited in my mouth.
First computer my family got was an Apple IIe (with dual floppy drives and all). The first computer that was technically mine was a Quadra 605 running System 7.1 w/a 680LC40, 8 MB of RAM, and a 160 MB hard drive (which, when I got it, and an additional 700 MB external SCSI drive). I got the computer in 1995 or 1996 when my parents bought a Performa 6400, and I used it till April 2000 (when I got an iMac DV for going to college). By now, the Quadra is an 8 or 9 year old computer, and my Dad uses it in his office to surf the internet and write letters. I would say that's a testament to the longevity the Macintosh.
first computer ever i was really young. like 5 so all i know is that it was an IBM with a 5.25" floppy and no hard drive. and that was back in the day when ALL THE GOOD GAMES were for mac. and i remember thinking (man i want a mac. all the kick ass games are for mac).
how times have changed huh?
my first computer just for me was christmas of 96'. it was a Gateway(like the year after gateway came onto the scene) Pentium 133mhz, 2gb hd, 64mb ram. i remember the guy on the phone telling me how i will never ever be able to fill 2gb. rofl.
then after that i built my first ever PC. PII 233mmx, 4gb hd, 128mb ram, original voodoo vid card.
and my PC's have slowly evolved over the years, swapping out pieces for newer things, vid cards, sound cards, mobo's, cpu's etc. the trend so far is i will upgrade every time i double my CPU speed. im on a 1.2ghz tbird right now so i figure my next pc will be a 2ghz.
lately though ive gotten really tired of bill gates and i want to buy a mac. i just HATE the idea of loosing mhz for a new system though. but the OS is soooo nice. how i dream of an OS that i dont have to restart on a daily basis just so that it can continue to run for another 8 months before it will totaly fall apart and will need to be reformated and reinstalled..
I'm not sure if the Apple IIc came out before the Macintosh Classic. If that is the case then it would be the IIc, that is still on a desk in my room. Still got the joystick, and like 3 cases with floppy discs in there.
However I think I distinctly remember when my dad brought home a black & white display Macintosh Classic. That computer owned. Tetris, Stunt Copter....shiiiiiiiiiit. Ima hafta boot that sucker up one day.
Geesh you had to make all us old school geeks feel bad huh?
My first computer was a Commodore 64 with datasette.
You could wait up to five minutes or so for the puppy to load in a program. If you didn't have the tape rewound all the way, it would look like it was going to low but just never load.
When I was in 8th grade I was given an incredible gift. One that cost over $300 at the time. A 1541 5.25" floppy drive.
Sorry to go on here but you asked...
I use to use that darn machine so much. Learned how to program it in basic. Created a couple of programs used cool colored sprites and all sorts of cool math that basically allowed me to sleep all the way up through trig in high school.
It finally died in 1989, and by then they were about $129 dollars at k-mart, Target and the like. Instead I spent way to much and moved on to the Amiga 500...but that is another story...
Comments
then Powerbook 5300
-> Beige G3 (current main machine)
-> TI89 (awesome calculator, 68k proc too)
-> Dell 1ghz POS
-> iBook/500
8 MHZ 68000 processor and 1 MB RAM - no HD. TOS/GEM OS. Awsome machine
Switched to mac in 1993.
First mac: LC475 with 8 MB RAM, 160 MB HD, 25/50 MHz 68040 and 17" Apple Trinitron Display. System 7.1
Check out these kick-ass specs:
- 25MHz 68040 processor (zing!)
- 8MB RAM (I promptly bumped that sumbitch up to a whopping 32MB RAM...and spent $279 to do so...sigh...)
- 230MB hard drive (that's MB, okay?)
- 1MB VRAM
- 2x CD-ROM
- floppy drive (of course)
Cost $1799. In March of this year I spent $1799 to buy an LCD SuperDrive iMac.
Also, had to buy a keyboard (Apple wasn't shipping keyboards with their systems then). Spent over $100 for an ADB Apple Extended Keyboard.
To cap it off, I then spent $429 on an Apple 13" Trinitron display in glorious 640x480 resolution and 16-bit color (thousands of colors...dither city!).
That last me until February of 2000, believe it or not, when I bought a tangerine iMac DV.
Which, in turn, was replaced in March by my new iMac.
I've owned only three Macs in eight-and-a-half years.
Timex Sinclair that never got used except to play cell or whatever it was called. Boy that was an exhilarating game.
Atari 1200XL
Corona "portable" - yeah right. It weighed like 65lbs
Mac IIcx
Quadra 700 (a blazing 25mhz).
PBG3 250mhz (still have it).
iMac 333mhz
iMac G4 Superdrive.
Of course, when I was in college I used to use a 128K Mac. 38 disc swaps to load the word processing program I used. I think I just vomited in my mouth.
Thoth
At that time the Quadra blew everything else away. Even when the PowerPC's came out, it was still faster in Photoshop cause of the DSP.
-Apple //e
-Mac Classic
-Mac Color Classic
-PM 7100/66
-266 G3 Mini-Tower (now a G4/500)
how times have changed huh?
my first computer just for me was christmas of 96'. it was a Gateway(like the year after gateway came onto the scene) Pentium 133mhz, 2gb hd, 64mb ram. i remember the guy on the phone telling me how i will never ever be able to fill 2gb. rofl.
then after that i built my first ever PC. PII 233mmx, 4gb hd, 128mb ram, original voodoo vid card.
and my PC's have slowly evolved over the years, swapping out pieces for newer things, vid cards, sound cards, mobo's, cpu's etc. the trend so far is i will upgrade every time i double my CPU speed. im on a 1.2ghz tbird right now so i figure my next pc will be a 2ghz.
lately though ive gotten really tired of bill gates and i want to buy a mac. i just HATE the idea of loosing mhz for a new system though. but the OS is soooo nice. how i dream of an OS that i dont have to restart on a daily basis just so that it can continue to run for another 8 months before it will totaly fall apart and will need to be reformated and reinstalled..
However I think I distinctly remember when my dad brought home a black & white display Macintosh Classic. That computer owned. Tetris, Stunt Copter....shiiiiiiiiiit. Ima hafta boot that sucker up one day.
Yeah, I'm old school.
66mhz
16MB ram
500MB hard drive
windows 95
floppy
no CD-ROM
My first computer was a Commodore 64 with datasette.
You could wait up to five minutes or so for the puppy to load in a program. If you didn't have the tape rewound all the way, it would look like it was going to low but just never load.
When I was in 8th grade I was given an incredible gift. One that cost over $300 at the time. A 1541 5.25" floppy drive.
Sorry to go on here but you asked...
I use to use that darn machine so much. Learned how to program it in basic. Created a couple of programs used cool colored sprites and all sorts of cool math that basically allowed me to sleep all the way up through trig in high school.
It finally died in 1989, and by then they were about $129 dollars at k-mart, Target and the like. Instead I spent way to much and moved on to the Amiga 500...but that is another story...
Nick
<strong>My first owned was a 6500/225. I got in the game late I suppose but at least I knew to go mac.
Hey, "once you go mac you never go back' lol</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, you got inthe game real late. My first computer was the beige G3. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
<strong>I don't remember what the snake game was called, but it's on my sisters cell phone now.</strong><hr></blockquote>
It's on my ex's phone too. Oh, how I miss that game!
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That was just a calculator!
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Exactly what can a modern scientific calculator not do that a 1970's era computer could?
MSKR
Edit: forgot about the trusty iMac
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