RAYMOND Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 (edited) I know its embarrassing but mine... a 286 @ 25mhz with a math co processor... autocad did not run to good on it.. kinda the wow in 1989 tho.. everyone at the office said "why are we doing this" Ray:D Edited September 18, 2008 by RAYMOND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDVERTEX Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 486DX2-66mhz, 8mb RAM, 320 WD HDD 1992 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 The first one I actually owned myself was a pentium 233 with 32 megs of ram. But my family had a 286 going back to 87 or so that I would play on as a teenager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lester_Masterson Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 During one of my College "Co-Op" terms in 1990, I digitized scanned blueprints into AutoCAD usable files. One scan was 4Mb!!!!! It simply would not load. *shutter* I had to ask management to upgrade my 386 from 2Mb to 4Mb...which took a week of sourcing. Cost them a whole $240 for 2-1Mb sticks. /If memory prices stayed circa 1990 values, my current machines' 4Gb of RAM would be worth $4.8 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amer abidi Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 oh i started off on an XT with a CGA card! yes, that's a 3 colour card! R, G, and literally, B! hard disks werent readily available.. it wasnt till my second year that i upgraded to an AT with an 8 mb hard disk!! loll.. but the 16 colour EGA was HEAVEN!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antisthenes Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 yup 486 dx2 w/ 3ds3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ky Lane Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I remember my first 10mb hard drive. Was the size of a house brick, and about the same weight. WHile our family started with a Commodore64, I started programming and writing visual basic games on a microbee with a mono green monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 The first computer I ever owned was a 486 DX-50 with a bleeding edge 16 mb of RAM and a 15" flat screen crt. I had a 260 mb hard drive that was partitioned something like 5 ways? I am not sure why. I guess my computer guy figured I'd get lost in much more than a 50 mb partition. Meanwhile, at the office I was chugging away on a 386 IBM something or other. It was painful in comparison to my "speed demon" at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 ZX-81 !!!! from Timex. Use to program simple basic stuff, later the MSX, which I wrote some games for. and my first real proper workstation was a dual pentium-pro at 200Mhz, with 32MB RAM running max1.2 under NT4.0 ofcourse I had my fair share of 8086 80386 etc.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 aye, i started out on a z80, then a zx81, then my trusty rubber keyed spectrum. my first 'real' puter was an 8086, quickly upgraded to a 80286. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 the first one was a pentium II ...i dont remember the speeds... but my second one is a amd k6 300mhz with 192 megs of ram ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbur Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 I remember when I had 486 with 8mb ram. I also had 3d studio 4 and autocad installed, both DOS-versions ofcourse It took some time to render images... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattclinch Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Amstrad CPC 464! A lovely tape deck and a whole 64kb of RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trick Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trick Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 It was really hard to get a decent image out of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 First computer was a Tandy T1000, but that was the families computer when I was a kid. It had a sweet 24 pin black and white printer though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 i had a tandy too but a long time later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudio Branch Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I know its embarrassing but mine... Busboy/Dishwasher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.B. Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 286-8/12 mhz (switchable!)..DataCad was slow, & AutoCad was slower..., but much better than a Commodore with a tape drive.... :-)! D.B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horhe Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Drawing board, para-line rule and triangles! I learned to draw 3 point perspectives from my plans and elevations. I rendered in graphite, charcoal and watercolor. I started using 3D in my 3rd yr of architecture school on a University owned PowerMac 6100 and soon after bought my own PowerCenter Pro Mac clone. I was the shiz with that bad boy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAYMOND Posted October 8, 2008 Author Share Posted October 8, 2008 this pic says it all... whatever it is the early days for sure the steering wheel must be the first "orbit" feature... r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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