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Atari ST 1988ish

Edit: we had a some other computer before that, but it wasn't mine and all I ever did was play with some strange graphics program (forgot the name) that had lots of clip arts. You would enter a number from a book that came with the program and then the clipart would appear.

You could also draw lines and insert text and then print everything out. That was pretty much all our computer could do. I have no idea why my dad brought it home.

I forgot the name of the program, but it was the shit. I spent hours just loading cliparts.

Edit2:

Oh, my first PC specs were:

486 66 MHz
8 MB RAM
Hercules Graphite graphics card with 1 MB memory
326 MB hard drive

I got that one in 1992 I think

The first one my family bought was a Victor 286 with a yellow monochrome screen, a 20MB hard drive and Windows 1.0

The first one I bought myself was a P133 with 32MB RAM, a 2,7GB hard drive and a Hercules Dynamite graphics card. That was just before Quake was released.

MKJ wrote:atari 1024STf. 8 mhz and a meg o ram, bitches!
and this thing had a soundcard and color output long before PC had them. weird innit

i was 4 at the time, and the arkanoid master. 1986

that was a pretty cool system, a friend of mine had one... it had this awesome boxing game we used to play all the time.

Forgot to mention I am now with a HP kayak workstation server with a 500 processor but it has a 1 mb cache a Xeon And I want to upgrade it to two processors.
256Mb ram Dating from year CC2000.
Only 9 gig hard drive 10,000 rpm but it is a really nozy fiber disk , Believe me it is really nozy.
Also have an intellistation IBM MP same specs.
I am now on a cable videotron wich is pretty fast , enough for my needs I don't play games.
Pete

Dr_Watson wrote:

MKJ wrote:atari 1024STf. 8 mhz and a meg o ram, bitches!
and this thing had a soundcard and color output long before PC had them. weird innit

i was 4 at the time, and the arkanoid master. 1986

that was a pretty cool system, a friend of mine had one... it had this awesome boxing game we used to play all the time.

still have the old thing, and all the gamedisks we used then too.
the warezscene was hardcore back then

lol. the first one i bought was a SX50 with 4mb of EDO RAM

are you sure?

EDO RAM didn't show up until the first Pentiums came out IIRC.

think it was an athlon 600 or something like that, about 7-9 years ago.

couldn't be arsed with computers before that, had an electronic typewriter for working on - do they still make those?

SplishSplash wrote:are you sure?

EDO RAM didn't show up until the first Pentiums came out IIRC.

i'm sure. i remember paying £140 for an extra 4mb to play doom 2

4days wrote:couldn't be arsed with computers before that, had an electronic typewriter for working on - do they still make those?

You can get them at car boots for about 50p

My first PC was an amiga 2000, after that i switched to a 386 or a 486... can't remember exactly. I liked that amiga a lot though - all my little friends at the time had Nintendo or Sega consoles with like 8 games, whereas i had more (illegal copies of) games than i could count. Heheh.

you could only count to 10 though

not much improvement on that area nowadays either huh

no u

ey boys heres a shiny quarter for each o yous, go pop down to the mercantile and get yourselves some jelly tots

Doombrain wrote:

SplishSplash wrote:are you sure?

EDO RAM didn't show up until the first Pentiums came out IIRC.

i'm sure. i remember paying £140 for an extra 4mb to play doom 2

thats why. pentiums were around back then, you just didn't have one.
(me neither)

Eraser wrote:
Later on we got a 286 with black/white screen and then a 386sx but the 286 was for me and my bro to play games on.

nope, I bought the 386sx (33Mhz!!) with my first self earned money, and then you got the 286

After the 386 I've had
-Pentium150
-AMD K6-2 300Mhz
-Pentium2 350Mhz
-Pentium3 450Mhz
-Celeron 800Mhz
-Athlon 1.2Ghz

and my current one is an Athlon 2600+

Then:
IBM Turbo-XT Clone
Intel 8088-2 Processor 4.77MHz
640k RAM
3.5" and 5" FDD
Tone Generator (err... soundcard)
Hard drive? What's that?
Monochrome monitor (b/w, not green)
MS DOS 3.3

I still have it and it'll actually boot if I plug it in. Someday, I may donate it to a museum or something.

That was followed by:
486 DX4-100
Dell Pentium 133MHz MMX laptop ($4000 at the time, got it for free... whee!)
IBM Pentium 233MHz MMX desktop (This is the only computer that I don't have anymore)
Dell Pentium III 733MHz desktop

Now:
Pentium IV Northwood 3.0GHz
2048MB 3200 DDR RAM (4 sticks - dual channel)
2x120GB RAID 0 hard drives
Gainward GeForce 6800GT OCed to Ultra speeds

Then:

P1 233mhz, 64meg of ram, maxi gamer 3d graphics card with 8meg ram (pulled 20FPS in quake 2 at 640, SEXY MAN!!!)

Now:

AMD Athlon 3200 64bit, 2048meg DDR ram, GeForce 6800 GT 256meg DDR.