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Graham Nixon Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 I had a zx-spectrum 128k (the really fast one) oh how i loved Manic Miner, Jet Pack and Chequered Flag. The high polygon counts and hdri like colour ranges made it so much more superior than todays banal offerings such as Far Cry and Call of Duty. At least that was till i recently played a spectrum emulator, how my memory decieves me, it all looked liKe s**t! as if it had all been built in Cinema 1D, or 1DS max! oh well, the spectrum of my mind will always be a fantastic emerald city kinda place. -g- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-k Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Commodore 64 with tapes and later on I got the new version (the white one) Then a Amiga 500 really cool computer that time. I just used them for games. It got a little more serious when I got my first PC. a 486 with 4 mb ram and 580 mb harddisk. It was a monster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Abbott Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 An Amstrad PCW8512... with two(!) floppy disk drives of an Amstrad only design. Green monochrome monitor. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=189 3.4 Mhz and 512 Kb ram! Wow! After a while I upgraded to the big time and bought an external 20Mb (megabyte) hard disk drive. It came in a seperate heavy metal chassis, about 18" x 12" x 4" - and the machine sat on top! Mike A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 my first was a zx-80, then i got a zx-81, then i got my beloved 48k rubber keyed spectrum (which i still have and occationally still use). then in work i had an amstrad pcw8512, then a load of 386's then 486's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graphix Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 TI-99/4A with the Expansion Box. Miner 2049 , Tunnels of Doom, and Frogger. Those were the days. graphix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 My first ever computer was a 386DX-40. It has 16MB of RAM and a 1MB vide card. Used to play Wind Commander on it all day long. GAMEFAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abicalho Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 It was 1989/90. I had a PC 8088 XT-Turbo 8MHz, 1024K of RAM, Math Co-Processor (needed for ACAD and AutoShade), CGA video, 30M Hard drive and mouse. The system cost me 3200$. Just the mouse (Genius) was 250$ (bought it later on). Sold it for 1200 2 years later to buy a 386-SX... oh boy... stirring memories... Where's that Autoflix movie for that project I made? Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Mike Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Thomson MO5 great ! with a friend (we were 9-10) we were wrote hundreds of code lines just to play to a tennis like game the langage was BASIC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutaj Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 right around 1982-3 Atari 800 with tape drive and 5-1/2" floppies. Remember playing Canyon Climber, Castle Wolfenstein, Necromancer, Miner 2049er, Fort Apocalypse and Caverns Of Mars and learning to program with Basic.. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariano Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 In 1988 I have a 80286 with math copro (80287) 1 Mb RAM and a superb ATI SVGA video card (800x600 with 256 colors !!!) In this times a flat render image its about 20/24 hs....my Logitech 3 buttons mouse ($ 200) its working like in this times!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Man these stories make me feel like a punk n00b. I bought my first computer in 1997 - a Power Center Pro 210. It was a Mac clone with 64MB ram a 2G SCSI drive and a 210MHZ 604e proc. For a while, it was the fastest thing going and I used it for about 5 years with many upgrades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arvind Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 hi, saw all ur replies. mine was an old z80, the good old zx spectrum. connected to my old tv set, and an old sony walkman for loading up the games . jetpak was awesome, wot sound and graphics, and the frame rate was out of this world. anybody remember playing F1 grandprix?? then came some xt's,at's, 486 and lots of others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 I remember doing college papers on my dad's TRS-80 back in the 1980's. He would always have to show me how to turn it on because I could never remember. I figured that computers were just not for me. He's proud of me now because I can build my own systems (I just let him go on thinking it's rocket science so as not to spoil my image). The first computer I ever bought was a 486-DX50 with 16MB ram and a 250 MB hd. With a 15" "flat square" monitor, it was the cutting edge and was phenominal with AutoCAD r12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipdesigner Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 The pc i have today. I bought this one from my own pocket. It is just 1 and a half year ago. Its P4 2.4, 512 RAM with 80GB capacity. Its nice if you own it and it's seating in you table, inside your room!!, Not like before i was using in the office, it wasnt mine... Time to time im upgrading some of its specs, and accs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 I'm sure we've done this thread before--in fact, all boards do this thread. Oh, well, its still fun! First--Commodore32, 2nd--Commodore64, then to the first computer I earned a living from, a KayPro XT-class (not an 8086 but a 16-bit NEC clone (sets me up nicely to be an AMD user)) at 8Mhz (1987). The a 16Mhz 386 (they always had to have the math co=processor to run my CAD program), then a 25Mhz386, then the jumps to 300, 700, 1G,2.7G.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trhoads Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 I too had a kaypro, circa the mid 80's, but i was doing book reports, not making money. The old suitcase looking ones, the screen was about 6 inches square, green text on a black background. The keyboard attached to the front to make a sealed rectangle. That was cutting edge for a home computer at the time. It sure beat the typewriter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 I too had a kaypro, circa the mid 80's...The keyboard attached to the front to make a sealed rectangle. That was earlier than mine. You had the CP/M OS. I have no idea what it used for a processor. Mine was a proper PC running DOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skogskalle Posted August 9, 2004 Share Posted August 9, 2004 my first one was a 486 DX4 at 33 Mhz (if I remember correctly). didnt care much for making 3d graphics and such back then. I used it mostly for games... I can still remember the sound of the shotgun in DOOM2 played through my pc-speaker. "pheeeeiip" =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 my first computer i thought was a tandy 1000, but after doing some research, i am not sure if that was the correct model. my case looked different, and i can not remember the specs other than i had to load the word processing or 256 color paint program from 3.5" floppies if i wnted to use them. niot enough hard drive space, even though the word processor was not more sophisticated than wordpad. it is still in my mom's basement. i will have to look it up next time i am there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I had the 48K ZX Spectrum too! Rubber keys, and that shrill noise when your games were loading from a cassette player-oh the memories. I had a paint program which took 35 minutes to fill a circle with colour. Got a games emulator recently and it all came flooding back. Novelty wore off after 10 minutes though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 well i've just purchased an original mega drive and a shed load of games from ebay. for nostalgic purposes. been playing sonic, outrun and desert strike all weekend. fabulous!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivoli Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 it was some time ago, the first computer i ever had was a commodore 64 (just for playing and for some basic programming stuff), then i gave up using computers. started again with a pentim mmx 233 (66 mhz fsb!) and something like 5 or 6 gb hard disk (maybe 3), integrated graphic card and about 32 mb ram. not bad, it was a strong old bird that kept working until the power supply went off one night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Knourek Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 I started with an Atari 400 then 800, 12mhz (with turbo) 8086 a 386DX ?mhz various 486's @ 33mhz, 66mhz, 100mhz Pentium 200mmx PII ?mhz Various PIII's dual and single cpu's 4 AMD's from XP1900 and up couple PIV's and finaly a Dual Xeon 2.8ghz -dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Mann Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 been playing sonic, outrun and desert strike all weekend. fabulous!!! Desert Strike was cool! My first computer though was a simple "pong" type game with dials on paddles instead of joysticks. It was either a Binatone or a Bontempi...the 70's were crap! Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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