YOUR COMPUTERS

Hi was thinking to myself that ive been through about fifteen pcs since i had a commodore 64 had and got to wondering about you guys
How many computers have you been through??
When did you start? What were the specs?
And what have the OSs been and which was your fav?

My first computer was a Amstrad CPC-464.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=84

Oldskool.

Very old school but in some ways more fun to use because we didnt expect a lot from it unlike pcs of today

my first pc was an old compaq qith a 6 gig hdd i didnt use it thaugh as i got it when i was 5, i first got into computers when i got a laptop 4 years ago it was an acer with xp and then i got a medion laptop with vista and just built my own
my fav os is linux

High tech indeed

Nothing as old skool here. Used to play a very old dungeons and dragons at a friends. Don't know what type of computer it was. I remember having to take the phone handle and insert it into some type of listening device to play it. This was around the time just before the first Atari game console came out.

mine was a old pc with dos running on it. don't remember the name. still got an atari and spectrum. don't think they work but i will prob sell them some time.

think my first "pc package" before i got into building em was an old COMPAQ with a 4 gig h/d cew and i think that was back when i got married!!!

"Nothing as old skool here. Used to play a very old dungeons and dragons at a friends. Don't know what type of computer it was. I remember having to take the phone handle and insert it into some type of listening device to play it. This was around the time just before the first Atari game console came out"


I remember them only used it twice it was at a friends house his wierd brother that was into everything new

Started off with a Sinclair ZX-80 which did nothing but smelling of burned rubber about 5 minutes after it was switched on. As soon as the ZX-81 came out, I got one of those and threw my ZX-80 away. After the ZX-81 came the ZX-Specrum-64 with a tapedrive. Had that for aobut 2 years before upgrading to a Commodore 64 with a floppy drive (You know, the 5.25" floppy drives that look as big as a medium tower case nowadays...

Got out of computers for quite a few years because I was concentrating too much on my art studies. Once I got back into computing again it was '98 and I started off with an Advent PC running guess what OS... Since then, I have built all my computers myself. Recently finished my fifth build.

Cheers:
Chris.

i can BARELY remember the earliest PC i had. i think it may have been a compaq. i can't even remember the specs. the most i can remember is that it used Windows 95. and that's about all i can remember about that pc.

and that was way back in my elementary school days and younger. say 12-14 years ago. and about 7 years ago, i got my other PC. a dell dimension 2400. integrated intel extreme video, 128 megabytes of 333mhz RAM, intel celeron 2.2ghz, 40 gig hard drive and a cd-r as well as a cd-rw drive. that served as a normal pc. i didn't do much gaming for a while until i upgraded it. i had my father help my install another 512mb of RAM. and that was the best upgrade i could do for a while. when i got to college a year and a half ago, i did some research because i was tired of my PC sucking so bad. i had nothing but PCI slots, so i looked for a card suitable, and that's when i got my ATI 9250 128mb. i was so happy. i finally had half-decent graphics and could finally play games like call of duty 2.

even earlier than both of those PCs was an IBM machine we got when we were only a few years old. still toddlers. i can't remember the specs. maybe my father might, but as you might expect, i would never have understood them. if i ask him, i'll edit the post and add them....i at least remember the very first game i ever played, and that IBM machine was both the first computer i ever used, and it was the first one we owned that could play it. it was the original Super Mario Brother's game. how about that? :D

Guess you all remember your first build with a mate mine was a
gigabyte GA-7ZXE
athlon xp 1800 266mhz cpu/stock fan later upgraded to 2400
mx440 graphics card later added a 9250se
2x512mb ram
160gb h/d later added another 160gb ide drive
300w psu
cd/rw
all incased in a nice black tower and still going strong

My first proper PC was an Amstrad 1640 with DOS and I think I got Windows on it somehow, took me weeks.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=19

First PC was ??? can remember the name , it was some giant white thing which i jammed Pokemon cards into the floppy drive, must of been 10 years old, then got a dell inspiron a few years back 3/4 and had that as a main ever since I've built around 10/20 comps from standard components from eBay/pcworld specs not amazing but more then enough for an average user(s) ideally for family use 90% xp home/pro and a few 98's.

Okay but was the first one you built?

p.s my fav os of all time is xp home , I've tried 98/2000/ home/pro vista and always stuck by home