Old Computers

[Cheesypuff]

Let just see what kind of old computers that people of Got|apex had. So G|A'ers What is the oldest computer you've ever had?

[DoPeY5007]

well when I lived with my parents :banghead: and the first PC :wow:I was on was a :johnwoo2: PackardBell Pentium :sleep: 120mgz :yawn: !!!...


woooo super fast....

[Loki]

I had a Pentium 200 MHz for a while.

[OC]

I had an original IBM PC - 4.77Mhz. I used to get on CompuServe in the chat rooms. Also had a Intel 386/40, Intel 486/33, AMD 486/66, Intel P100 (still have it - it's my diskless Linux firewall/router), and an Intel P233 (gave it to my mom for an AOL box - it's still going strong). That brings me to my current boxes, Celeron 300a @ 450, PII-350 @ 375, Duron 700 @ 840.

-OC

[southernbelle]

My first p.c. was an original Compaq, running at a blazing 8mhz, with 2 360 floppy drives. I quickly upgraded to a 12mhz, with a 10 meg hard drive

[Grimm]

Does Z-80 and CP/M mean anyting to anyone here?

[Jihforce]

First computer I ever had was a Apple IIe. And I would play "Karateka" for hours. Great game. :)

[Loki]

No I have you all beat. I had an Apple II GS. THat thing was hella slow. THough had some good games. Then I upgraded to a 486/66

[sbp]

Pentium 120
2 meg Hercules Dynamite 128
Intel mobo
32 megs 60ns EDO ram
2.5 gig Western Digital caviar hard drive
Sound Blaster 16

[poiselle]

The first computer in our house was an ancient compaq "portable" that had a 6 inch monochromatic screen and two 5.25 drives mounted vertically. I still have an IBM Thinkpad 486 66 running Windows 3.1 that I use for writing papers in front of the TV and such. I have several first generation pentiums lying around as well. For all my old computers I should have been a CS major.

[GraingerGuy]

These are just the CPUs that I have had.

8080
8088
286
386sx something.....
AMD 486 dx-100
cyrix pr150
AMD K6-2 300
AMD K6-3 400
AMD T-bird 1200

All were custom built by either my dad...or me.

[coleslaw]

8086 rules.

[Nanotech9]

TRS-80 :D w/ 64K RAM runnin TRS-DOs, and then later LS-Dos

[Grimm]

Originally posted by poiselle
The first computer in our house was an ancient compaq "portable" that had a 6 inch monochromatic screen and two 5.25 drives mounted vertically. I still have an IBM Thinkpad 486 66 running Windows 3.1 that I use for writing papers in front of the TV and such. I have several first generation pentiums lying around as well. For all my old computers I should have been a CS major.

That Compaq is the exact same one! The Z-80 processor and no hard drive. did you use CP/M for an OS too?

[topane]

I had an Apple IIc for my first computer. I have a IIgs in my basement which I occasionally dust off and play some old games.

[DaFunkyUnit]

i had an Atari 8~~~ something or other, i forget... I played Pac-man, asteroids, donkey kong, and my favorite Jumpman Jr. (that game was DA BOMB DIGGITY!!!) :)

[poiselle]

Originally posted by evilcyclops


That Compaq is the exact same one! The Z-80 processor and no hard drive. did you use CP/M for an OS too?
To be honest I was like 6 when we had it. My father used to let me play this sub game called Gato on it. I think that he used CP/M but I am not sure about the OS. I am so mad my mother threw that one away. I can't believe I have more ram now then several generations of harddrives. Anyone else remember trying to figure out how we would ever fill 500 megs?

[BADFlSH]

Good old Commodore 64

[DoPeY5007]

I also have a real old 486 Labtop!!!...

oooch that thing is slow.....:bawl:

[Cheesypuff]

I started with a pad and paper.

[Jeffbx]

Bunch of newbies here, I see.

I had a Commodore Pet - with a whopping 2Mhz processor and 16k of RAM, that baby screamed. I could load up games from the tape cassette drive in about 5 - 10 minutes. When I got my first 360k floppy drive, it was like I had died & gone to heaven. Several years later, I was in awe as I saw the Apple II+ running on a COLOR screen!

Damn, I'm old. :disa:

[Burzhui]

i remember the commodore thank god i upgraded to a 386/33mhz with a 60 MB hard drive and a 2400 modem which was later upgraded to 9600 and then 14000, hell i was the coolest kid on the block.
I also remember the tandy and i had a spectrum 128 it used audio tapes to store info

[Burzhui]

Originally posted by Burzhui
i remember the commodore thank god i upgraded to a 386/33mhz with a 60 MB hard drive and a 2400 modem which was later upgraded to 9600 and then 14000, hell i was the coolest kid on the block.
I also remember the tandy and i had a spectrum 128 it used audio tapes to store info
sweet mother of jesus i was only born in 82... you are sooo old:poke: you know i'm just screwing with ya:hihi:

[Nija]

I had an atari 2600 does that count?

[GraingerGuy]

I had a Commodore Pet - with a whopping 2Ghz processor and 16k of RAM, that baby screamed.

2Ghz! :hoboy: They made those back then?!?!?!?! :D I'm just messin with ya....2mhz I guess you meant? btw....an 8080 is 2 mhz...:) So....I guess that makes me as old as you as far as computers go. :)

[attgig]

Originally posted by Loki
No I have you all beat. I had an Apple II GS. THat thing was hella slow. THough had some good games. Then I upgraded to a 486/66

Loki...wassup:)

that was exactly what I went through...

AppleIIGS 256k ram. I remember opening it up, and just sticking my pen in the memory expansion socket while the computer was going....hee hee...The screen would start turning different colors depending on which connectors i jammed my pen into. Then I would reboot, and it would be all fine :).
the i had my 486/66 samsung computer...340 meg hard drive. When I was buying that, I wanted to get a modem, to start doing bbs's and stuff, but the computer guy told my mom that I didn't need a modem...HA HA! freakin retard.

[sbp]

Way back when I also had a Coleco Adam.

[ZrEo0]

Originally posted by dopey5007
well when I lived with my parents :banghead: and the first PC :wow:I was on was a :johnwoo2: PackardBell Pentium :sleep: 120mgz :yawn: !!!...


woooo super fast....
thats under my bed

[Twilight]

Hmm.. I had a Texas Instruments TI-99.. i think that's what it was. It was hooked up to a 13" black and white TV as a monitor and used these cartridges that were about the same shape as N64 games. Then, we got a Mac Classic! Then, a 486/25mHz with a 170MB HD (which i'll have you know I actually used this week to trick a Win98 upgrade CD into installing 98 on my new 40G HD). My parents continued to use that machine until a year ago when I gave them my old P133, the first computer that was actually "mine". They were still using this machine, with all but 256MB of space used in their 1.5G HD until yesterday when I convinced my dad that he needed a new computer, by explaining that the amount of space he had left on his HD would fit on a compact flash card. So i ordered them a P4/1.5 40G HD 128MB :-)

[psycho-]

Intellevision II!

That thing was dope!

[revil]

The first computer i got ahold of had a floppy disk larger than a 5.25in. that's all i remember about it. i was quite young at the time. I think i still have one of those disks around here, 8in I think.

[Jeffbx]

Originally posted by GraingerGuy


2Ghz! :hoboy: They made those back then?!?!?!?! :D I'm just messin with ya....2mhz I guess you meant? btw....an 8080 is 2 mhz...:) So....I guess that makes me as old as you as far as computers go. :)

Oops! That WOULD have been impressive back in the late 70s, wouldn't it?

[Burzhui]

Originally posted by Jeffbx


Oops! That WOULD have been impressive back in the late 70s, wouldn't it?

yea just a tad though :)

[attgig]

Originally posted by Twilight
Hmm.. I had a Texas Instruments TI-99.. i think that's what it was. It was hooked up to a 13" black and white TV as a monitor and used these cartridges that were about the same shape as N64 games.

Woah, I only have a TI-92 :P

[irwin]

The oldest comp in our house is a 486/66 with Windows 3.1. :) It's not here anymore, but we used to havea 386/xx. I wish I were older so I could have better stories with older computers to tell. :(

[NullUnit2000]

ATARI 400! :thumbup:

Star Raiders kicked much arse! Plus, I had an arcade perfect version of Pac-Man while my friends were playing the poopy 2600 port.

Viva Atari!

[psycho-]

Beyond the intellivision II, my family also had a Apple IIe...a really really old one that had a green monochrome screen. We also had an had an apple Lisa w/ 512kb ram and a 20mb (Those things were killer) Pro-Drive. Those Apple Lisa screamed killer performance...only if the 11000 price tag (1982 price) didn't ruin it. Those things ran on the heels of that Xerox PARC research GUI system.

[Blu]

We had an old Atari PC. It was...interesting. I remember playing Hitchicker's Guide on it.

The other old one was a Linotype-Hell typesetter that my dad had at the shop. It took 13" disks to load. Big enought that it had to disassembled to be throw out.


TBG

[Jpeace121]

My folks bought me an Atari 800XL. I don't even remember what it had in it. All I remember was that the 5.25 drive that was attached to it was the size of a shoe box. And we didn't have a monitor for it. We hooked it up straight to a TV. I don't even remember what games I had for it.............so long ago.

The first PC we had was an Intel 486/50, with a 540 meg hard drive, 16 Megs of ram, and a 1Meg video card. And at the time (1993), it was a pretty good system.

[DoPeY5007]

Originally posted by zreo0

thats under my bed

nope I have it in my garage, it will be a linux box someday ;)

[ZrEo0]

Originally posted by dopey5007


nope I have it in my garage, it will be a linux box someday ;)
i kno i hav some POS pc under my bed (dont say my old 1, that is for sure on top of my closet), hmmm i hav to dig that pc out and find what it is

[Blu]

Originally posted by psycho-
Beyond the intellivision II, my family also had a Apple IIe...a really really old one that had a green monochrome screen. We also had an had an apple Lisa w/ 512kb ram and a 20mb (Those things were killer) Pro-Drive. Those Apple Lisa screamed killer performance...only if the 11000 price tag (1982 price) didn't ruin it. Those things ran on the heels of that Xerox PARC research GUI system.

:wow: You had a LISA!? What'd you end up doing with it? I know that now, those things are worth more than the original purchase price. I'd die to get my hands on one of those.


TBG

[Blu]

BTW, $11,000 is about $20,000 in todays dollars. Imagine the computer you could get with that.