What brand was your first computer?

[kateriyan]

Mine was a packard bell.
Which was your!!

 

[amoka]

HP something... Long time ago... still got the RAM hanging around somewhere. I believe it is 128MB RAM... top of the notch then.

 

[Teflon_Mcgee]

HP something... Long time ago... still got the RAM hanging around somewhere. I believe it is 128MB RAM... top of the notch then.

My family's first computer was almost a Packard Bell but we ended up buying from some local builder.

4 MB of RAM was standard but we paid the extra $160 to get 8 MB. Yes, RAM cost $40 per megabyte.

Thats $40,000 per gigabyte. WOW!

 

[synergy1]

Commodore 64.

Yup. this computer ran off huge 5 and a quarter disks. was pretty young when I had it.

 

[SBW]

First computer I had regular access to was a terminal on a DEC mainframe.

 

[pinhas]

First one I ever had was a custom built from a local computer store.
First one in the US was a Dell, and it will be my last Dell as well.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Yup. this computer ran off huge 5 and a quarter disks. was pretty young when I had it.

The c64 costs $100 and that giant disk drive was $200, but you had to have it if you wanted to play more than the crappy cartridge games. And you could cut a V-shaped notch out of the side of the disk if you wanted to use both sides.

 

[thedude4242]

campaq presario

 

[Rogue]

Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer.

 

[bigjohnson]

Commodore VIC-20

 

[Bible_Belt]

Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer.

The Trash 80! When I was in elementary school, they would pull the smart kids out of class and let them play games on the Trash 80. They called this program "gifted." You had to be gifted to see what the hell was supposed to be going on in those games, which had graphics of about 4 pixels per square inch and involved maneuvering little rectangles around the screen while using a lot of imagination.

 

[lorekeeper]

Got a VIC-20 when i was 5, within a year we bought a c64. Upgraded a few years later to a commodore 128. a year later an XT, then a 80386sx16, DX25 then a BIG jump to a 80486DX66, Pentium 100, p133, p166, p200, p450, p667, p2 700, p3 1000, p4 1.6, p4 2.8, p4 3.02, p4 3.6, then it gets a little hazy cause i started going through computers like crazy, lotsa upgrading.

now I'm trying to be more social, so I have a quad core 3ghz I havent even plugged in after painting my room 4 months ago, and a dell mini9 I just use to surf a bit here and there.

 

[speakeasy]

It was called a Delta Gold. It wasn't even an Apple IIc, but an Apple IIc compatible that my mom ordered off home shopping channel. We ended up sending it back for some reason. God, things have come a long way.

 

[Alle_Gory]

White box of some kind. It had a Pentium 486 with a turbo button that didn't do anything and DOS with Windows 3.1 on top. It was awesome.

 

[f283000]

200 mhz mmx technology or whatever it was. Don't remember the brand.

The 2nd computer I had which was a hewlett packard it lasted me for almost 10 years. I highly recommend HP they put out quality stuff. Then I got a dell which still works but it has crashed a bunch of times I don't think my HP ever did.

 

[azanon]

Commodore 64, 5 1/4 Floppy drive, and a 300 baud westinghouse modem connected to quantum link. I was "online" as early as 1983 Quantumlink was essentially a bulletin board though.

 

[OzyBoy]

I don't know what is was. I built it from spare parts. So a no name computer i guess. :yes:

 

[dra901]

Dell Dimension 4100... I think...


We still use it. 192 MB ram..

Firefox opens up in about 10 minutes.

General start up takes around 40 minutes.

Of course we dont use it daily i already have my own computer and i cant complain!

 

[Slickster]

Timex Sinclair 1980!!! Monitor was a black and white TV.

http://oldcomputers.net/zx81.html

 

[Alle_Gory]

Dell Dimension 4100... I think...


We still use it. 192 MB ram..

Firefox opens up in about 10 minutes.

General start up takes around 40 minutes.

Of course we dont use it daily i already have my own computer and i cant complain!

Your computer is overloaded for some reason. Start up shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes. You can solve this by putting XP or Windows 2000 on it and turning off the memory draining services and applications. The less your computer has to do the faster it is.