VolcomPimp Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 my brother had an atari a long long time ago which I used and I still have in my closet... dont think it works but I still have a bunch of the old disks that really flopped (dono why they werent called floppy disks)... after that we had a cyrix 120mhz OC to like 133 I think... I forget all the specs on that piece of crap but I think I have some parts around here like a 600mb hd which is huge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CompX Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 Mine was a compaq 5200 or something, since im only 14 its not too old but it was a 7.2 gb hd 400 mhz proc, amd i think,64 mb ram,and a 16 mb ati video card. I gave it to my mom and got a bigger 1.6 ghz system with 40 gb hd, and now i have my ibuypower with 2.8 ghz proc and 72 gb hd. Kinda weird how a computer going from a 400 mhz proc to a 1.6 ghz proc only takes a year or so huh. And back then a 400 mhz proc computer costed more than my 2.8 lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey6915 Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 no need to list your computers guys mine was the best sorry but its true. and i noticed there are alot of younings in here *including me* I member when i rented back to the future . I went into the future and got me a Amd Xp+2555+ @ 4.5ghz outrunning intels p5 6.0ghz . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticaFLM Posted July 24, 2003 Posted July 24, 2003 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpandapuss Posted July 25, 2003 Posted July 25, 2003 As far as I can remember, it was a TANDY 286, I think the HD was 500MB--couple of months l got an APTIVA with the introduction of the "incredible" Pentium processor.....LMAO Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolcomPimp Posted July 25, 2003 Posted July 25, 2003 compaq 233mhz 4 gig 32mb lightning 56k so fast omg it was insane. uh huh....... where'd you learn 2 count? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byrner Posted July 25, 2003 Posted July 25, 2003 commodore 64 ....i was so jeolous when my friend got a commodore 128 <_ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadyone Posted July 25, 2003 Posted July 25, 2003 (edited) I am old man will be 24 on aug 21st so my first pc was ..... an abacus BUT of course I overclocked it too lol here is a pic of it Edited July 25, 2003 by shadyone Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borisw37 Posted July 25, 2003 Posted July 25, 2003 My father bought a PC back when we used to live in Russia. It was a rip-off of a Sinclair Spectrum with a zx-80 processor. That thign looked like a thick keyboard. No HDD, all software had to be loaded from a regular casette player, which was a great pain in the . because it was hard to find the beginning of a game on casette and then it took 5-8 minutes to load. The Spectrum had to be connected to TV since it had no monitor outputs. But overall it was a fun little thing. I learned the basics of BASIC on that thing. As soon as it started up its default language was BASIC. I wish i could get one of those today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravy Posted July 25, 2003 Posted July 25, 2003 IBM PC/XT clone, x86 something processor @ 4.77 Mhz, or it had a "turbo" button to make it run 10 Mhz. Monochrome monitor, 50Mb Seagate HDD, 1024k ram Sad part is, I had a few games that actually would run too fast to play in turbo mode, LOL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Mittens Posted July 25, 2003 Posted July 25, 2003 I've had a few computers over the years. 1. circa 1992. I got my first PC. An old XT, with a lovely 13" amber monochrome monitor. 20mb hard drive. 640k ram. turbo button (like a turbo sticker, but unlike a riced up civic actually got some performance gains over stock ) 5 1/4" floppy drive. I had Lotus 1-2-3 for word processing (loved using the "/" key to access the command menu, no mouse back in the day) I also had some "ninja" game that involved jumping up and down and collecting blinking gold things. The other game was a side-scrolling helicopter game, where you would shoot things and then land on a burning building and rescue ppl from it. Soon after, I got a second XT, with a similar monochrome monitor and 640k of ram. However, it only had two 5 1/4 drives. I missed the hard drive. 2. circa 1996 Zoom ahead a few years. A brand spanking new AMD 133 system at 100mhz. 1gb hard drive. 32mb ram (2x16mb dimms) 14" TTX color monitor. 4 meg ATI Mach64 video card. sticker price: $2,500. Windows 95a Thing was a POS. Had a crappy Zoltrix modem and CD drive (illegal to sell in Canada, but I guess not as a warranty replacement). I learned sooo much on that computer. I loved playing Duke Nukem 3D on that beast. In fact, I had 100 megs of maps and addons. It was a great time. My upgrade to a 6.4gb hard drive was a good day, until I had to partition it into four drives, and filled the drive within one week. 3. November, 2001 Fast forward once again. AMD Athlon XP 1600+ @ 1.41Ghz 512MB PC2100 ram Asus A7A266 mobo Asus V7700 GF2 GTS w/32MB DDR VRAM (don't remember if it was the deluxe or not, I think not tho) SBLive! 5.1 sound LG CD Drive LG CD-RW Drive LG 77FT 17" Flatron monitor (a real beaute!) Maxtor 40GB 7200 RPM drive This was the new machine. $1,700 before taxes was the budget, and I succeeded. It was a nice machine. However, I didn't know as much about hardware then as I do now, so in retrospect there would be some changes I would have made, such as the motherboard and CPU. However, I did upgrade to an MSI GeForce3 Ti500 last fall. That made a nice improvement. 4. Today. My latest computer is a beast (IMO.) My System There are some updates that need to be made, and will be made once it's back together. I now have an Innovatek watercooling kit and an Abit NF7-S motherboard. I'll also be getting a new 2500+ with the latest stepping so I can hit some better numbers than I am now. Whee, what a time we live in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
savethedodobird Posted July 25, 2003 Posted July 25, 2003 386 8 megs ram very small hd windows 3.0 ( i still have the set of like 8 or 9 floppy disks ) it would even play a few games any one remember "test drive 3"? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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