What was your first PC?

**stevecore** · 12-18-2003, 03:41 PM

IBM 286... back in the day!

**JSA Matt** · 12-18-2003, 03:42 PM

I'm not that old... IBM 386

**JDog** · 12-18-2003, 03:42 PM

Dude, I don't care bout the IBM/Apple computers, I remember the Commodore 64. That was a computer and that was my first one! The best one!

jDoG

**StructureAndDesign** · 12-18-2003, 03:43 PM

IBM 386 I remember the 4MB memory chips were really expensive

**The Truth Hurts** · 12-18-2003, 03:43 PM

8088 / no memory / no hard drive / (2) 3.5" Floppies / 14" CGA / and I believe a 900baud external modem / Telix for dialing into BBS' / theDraw for ANSI graphics

not much else to it.

**Mr Pheer** · 12-18-2003, 03:43 PM

My first was a Timex Sinclair 1000

I dont think that Apple or IBM had home computers out at the time.

**StuartD** · 12-18-2003, 03:44 PM

actually... it was a Tandy.

I had a Tandy 2500... screaming fast 25Mhz processor with 2 megs of ram.

**nathan_f** · 12-18-2003, 03:44 PM

A Coleco Adam

Introduced: June 1983
Released: October 1983
Discontinued: January 1985
Price: US $600
CPU: Zilog Z80-A @ 3.58MHz
RAM: 80K, 64K available to user
Display: TV (RF) & composite video
24 X 36 text, 16 colors
256 X 192 graphics

**Mr Pheer** · 12-18-2003, 03:46 PM

Originally posted by StructureAndDesign
IBM 386 I remember the 4MB memory chips were really expensive

In '94 I bought a 66mhz 486, one of the first ones out with a cd-rom. I paid like $400 for a 4MB ram upgrade and then I bumped the processor up to 90mhz for another $400

**aaron** · 12-18-2003, 03:47 PM

bbs'ing was the shit

**Evil1** · 12-18-2003, 03:47 PM

vic20 with a powerhouse of a 300 baud modem(with one phone number on the planet to call) and the elite cassette tape drive.

**SoundMan** · 12-18-2003, 03:48 PM

Commador 64

**Coy** · 12-18-2003, 03:48 PM

wow... does this bring back memories...

my first one was a 286 used for writing and of course gettin onto the BBS'

Still have a commadore 64, never used it though...

Anyone know anyone that wants a barely used, still in the box computer

hehehe

**nathan_f** · 12-18-2003, 03:48 PM

Originally posted by Evil1
and the elite cassette tape drive.

Did you have Buck Rogers cassette?

**GonePhishing** · 12-18-2003, 03:52 PM

Great stuff! I had a tape backup to go with mine and a U.S. robotics 2400 baud modem too.

**Evil1** · 12-18-2003, 03:53 PM

Originally posted by nathan_f

Did you have Buck Rogers cassette?

This was 20+ years ago, i'd have to go get hypnotized to find that one out.

**evildick** · 12-18-2003, 03:53 PM

Not counting my old Colecovision ADAM, it was a 386 25mhz.

The sad thing is, I gave it to my cousin and is still runs fine. Kinda wish I kept it for nostalgia. Might start going up in price again in another 10 or 15 years.

**Yngwie** · 12-18-2003, 03:55 PM

P75 with 8megs of ram, a Trident vid card with 1 meg of ram, a 14" monitor, sound blaster 16, 14.4 modem, 850mb hard drive

**HeadPimp** · 12-18-2003, 03:57 PM

It was an IBM knock off that I got as a Christmas present. Later on I upgraded to a Commodore Vic-20

**evildick** · 12-18-2003, 03:58 PM

Originally posted by nathan_f

Did you have Buck Rogers cassette?

I had that for my ADAM. What a terrible computer that was. That was a pretty good game though, considering what else was out at that time.

**JDog** · 12-18-2003, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by Coy
wow... does this bring back memories...

my first one was a 286 used for writing and of course gettin onto the BBS'

Still have a commadore 64, never used it though...

Anyone know anyone that wants a barely used, still in the box computer hehehe

Commodore? Shit I'd take that!

jDoG

**baddog** · 12-18-2003, 04:04 PM

Apple II, hit the big time when I got an Apple IIe, with dual disk floppy drive

**Oracle Porn** · 12-18-2003, 04:05 PM

Originally posted by stevecore
IBM 286... back in the day!

same here

**pamphage** · 12-18-2003, 04:10 PM

PC jr. and i also loved archon.

**~Ray** · 12-18-2003, 04:12 PM

an IBM thinkpad 560... never saw her hook up faster than 14.4

**Elli** · 12-18-2003, 04:16 PM

386DX IBM clone with a 15" monitor and 80MB hard drive. Yeah, we were livin' large.

You may remember me from such chatlines/bbs's as PJ's Virtual Reality and Shoreline, and ICEOnline.

**SureFire** · 12-18-2003, 04:21 PM

286 (tandy) no memory, no hard drive and paid close to 3,000 for it. I feel old

**bena1975ca** · 12-18-2003, 04:22 PM

IBM 286...I wouldn't wanna try running Windows 2000 on that sucker. It was slow enough on Windows 3.0 which I ran at the time.

**XxXotic** · 12-18-2003, 04:23 PM

apple IIC
then i got the mini-macintosh with the 6" green screen (p.o.s.) then a performa 405 (another p.o.s) then a pentium 133 with 8 megs ram and a 1.2 gig hdd 2400 modem was super 1337 too

**bignasty** · 12-18-2003, 04:30 PM

an acros 386 16 mhz 1 mb ram 40 mb hard drive 2400 baud modem

**The Click** · 12-18-2003, 04:38 PM

**Tam** · 12-18-2003, 04:48 PM

Mine was an 8088 with no hard drive in it and I very quickly got hooked and went to 286, then a 386 and then built me a 486 that is STILL running........ and so on. I had a Commodore years and years ago and got pissed off and gave it away and left them alone til I got that 8088 and then I was done, I wanted to work with computers....... LOL

**HEARTBREAKER** · 12-18-2003, 05:02 PM

i had IBM

**PenetratinP** · 12-18-2003, 05:06 PM

Originally posted by aaron
bbs'ing was the shit

I vaguely remember having to call a 900# to pay for membership to a big bbs in my area......

**NoCarrier** · 12-18-2003, 05:07 PM

It was a Color Computer 2 (Coco 2)

RAM 4 kbytes expandable to 64 kbytes
ROM 8 kbytes BASIC Expandable to 16k Extended
Programming Language Color BASIC 1.X by Microsoft
Keyboard 57 key multifunction Chiclet or typewriter
CPU Chip MC6809E CPU by Motorola
CPU Speed 0.89 mhz
Graphics Chip MC6847P by Motorola
Display NTSC modulated TV channel 3 or 4
Text Resolution 32x16 Upper and Lowercase
Minimum Graphics Resolution 64x32, 8 color 2x2 block characters
Maximum Graphics Resolution 256x192 2 color
Sound square-wave speaker click 255 discrete tones
Ports serial, cassette, TV, cartridge edge connector

**Azathoth** · 12-18-2003, 05:20 PM

Anyone remember Rusty & Eddies bbs?

They ended up getting busted big time

**Coyote** · 12-18-2003, 05:21 PM

My dad bought me the one using the 8080a as a kit project to use with his teletype. Took about 4 hours to program to just print your name. Best present I ever got.

**Herb Kornfield** · 12-18-2003, 05:45 PM

TRS-80 back in the day...1983/4

Then various shit machines (no name clones), then in 97 got an IBM Aptiva.....had that til 2002 and 100% dell now.

**Lane** · 12-18-2003, 05:45 PM

pentium 75

**TurboTrucker** · 12-18-2003, 06:11 PM

486, 33MHZ, 5 MB hard drive, windows 3.1 woohoo kickass!!

**Praguer** · 12-18-2003, 06:17 PM

MAC, super fast 88mhz processor, incredible 32MB RAM and the largest possible hard drive 500 Mb, for the bargain price of $6000.00

**Jedimaster** · 12-18-2003, 06:20 PM

Apple Then C-64 Then a used PC Jr.

**Jedimaster** · 12-18-2003, 06:23 PM

My dad used to get pissed abt me dialing into Anyone Rusty & Eddies bbs.

What happened to them??

**Ash@phpFX** · 12-18-2003, 06:27 PM

first one was top of the range 486 dx33 4mb ram, 123mb hard drive, 3.5 and 5.25 drives. it only cost my dad $3000, he didnt have an extral $1000 to get a 1x cd rom though, oh, and it didnt have a sound card either

**Head** · 12-18-2003, 06:35 PM

Fuck i think it was an IBM. With an amber screen. I can't remember the modle.

**skeet** · 12-18-2003, 06:37 PM

My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99a?

I had that zork like game (pirates something) and I saved were I was on a cassette tape.

From there I went to the vic-20 then the c64

Anyone here did any ?blue boxing? with their C64 back in the day? It was towards the end of the blue boxing age? early 80?s

We lived in a Detroit suburb at the time and I would call the Canadian information 1+area code+555-1212 when they answered I would blast a 2600hz tone then take over the line.

At the time I was just a kid and did not know the power I held? It was only later that I learned how to use the extra ?keys? or ?tones? KP, ST, A, B, C, D, etc?

Even back then I remember coming across hacked CompuServe accounts and using them.

Logon and first thing typing ?go cb?

Then it happened, sex, drugs and rock ?n roll?

I didn?t touch computer again till 1993.

**axelcat** · 12-18-2003, 06:40 PM

commodore 64

**InsaneMidget** · 12-18-2003, 06:41 PM

Originally posted by JSA Matt
I'm not that old... IBM 386

same

**Arty** · 12-18-2003, 06:42 PM

As the others not qualifed, my first pc was:

386sx-25 with 4mb with 20mb hdd (partitioned as two 10mb becuase 20 was so huge!)

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