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I was thinking today of my first computer I had. It was a 16k TRS-80 Color Computer 1 Developed by the Tandy Corporation Bought from Radio Shack I was laughing because back then storage was a cassette tape. I would buy magazines every month and start writing the programs that would make things work. I remember sitting at that computer for like 4 days writing and at the end it showed Rudolf the red nose reindeer and it's nose lit up and I would put it on a cassette to save. Then one day my father back then took this computer to a computer repair store and they made it into a Color computer 2. Mind you don't know what the difference was. i still needed that cassette type for storage. I think it was 1980 when I got it I was 10 years old Boy has things changed What was your first computer
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Re: My First Computer
Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:23 PM
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A Compaq Desktop with a 233MHz Pentium CPU with Windows 95. 
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Re: My First Computer
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A Packard-Bell 486 SX. My first pc games were demos of DooM and Wolfenstien. Oh god! That was roughly 20 years ago.
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Re: My First Computer
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mine had an MSI 8800gts card in it. 
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Re: My First Computer
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Pentium 133 ASUS P5A motherboard 120mb PC100 3gb Hard Drive Riva 128zx Windows 95
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Re: My First Computer
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My first computer was a Windows 95 Compaq (don't remember the specs) but it came out around 95/96. I got it when my father got himself another Compaq that had Windows 98.
That piece of turd was my computer up until 2003 (when I was 13).
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Re: My First Computer
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I got a Commodore VIC-20 for my birthday in 1981. The following year I got an IBM 5150 after the Commodore was stolen.
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Re: My First Computer
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Re: My First Computer
Friday, April 18, 2014 2:27 AM
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Apple iic, loved all the txt games on it.
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Re: My First Computer
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Moving to General Hardware.
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Re: My First Computer
Friday, April 18, 2014 2:59 AM
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Sorry I put this in General Discussions I didn't think it had really anything to do with hardware. I was just a fun question I was asking. Sorry I put where I did.
I guess it has to do with hardware
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Re: My First Computer
Friday, April 18, 2014 2:40 PM
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It was a generic 386 SX-16, with 2 meg of ram (take that, Bill Gates!) and a 40 meg hard drive. I think the motherboard was built by Abit and I remember overclocking that sucker by moving jumpers. Before I finally got rid of that case I had upgraded every single component inside it at least twice, and several of them three or four times.
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Re: My First Computer
Friday, April 18, 2014 3:55 PM
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An Apple Mac Performa 6200CD with OS 7.6.
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Re: My First Computer
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I committed the ultimate sin a apple 2e
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Re: My First Computer
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 9:20 PM
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Not just one, but many firsts: - First family computer was from a local shop (Win95, Pentium 75MHz and upgraded to Pentium 200MHz MMX)
- My first laptop PC: Dell Inspiron 1100 (WinXP SP1, Northwood Celeron 2GHz)
- My first desktop PC: Gateway S-5200s (WinXP SP2, Netburst Presler Pentium D 920, GeForce 7600GT, 19" 1280x1024)
- My first DIY desktop PC: WinXP SP3, Nehalem Bloomfield Core i7-920, GeForce GTX260, 1080p 24"
- My first sweepstakes win: Dell XPS L501X (Win7, Westmere Clarkdale Core i5-480M, GeForce GT420M)
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Re: My First Computer
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:38 PM
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My first pc had an ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo 8MB, I used to play Mechwarrior 4 on it all the time. (The game lagged badly but it was fun nonetheless). 
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Re: My First Computer
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IBM 8086 with monochrome yellow monitor. It had 1/2 MB RAM, no hard drive, two floppy drives, 5-10 MHz and believe or not, it played TMNT on it pretty nicely.
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Re: My First Computer
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OK so here is my first system from the thread I started earlier which was moved over here,...entitled: "What was the very first rig you built, inherited, hacked, etc.?" Mine was a Compaq Presario, circa 1998 or so I think. I forget the actual model number, but it was sleek and sexy with lurid purple stickers extolling it's many virtues, molded from that ubiquitous beige plastic from the era. LOL  I succeeded in upgrading the thing to pert-near 512 MB of PC100 RAM as I recall! It sported a Pentium 3 I think, a floppy drive of course, a CD drive given to me by a friend, an enormous 12 GB hard drive, and an amazing 256 MB video card that I added. Needless to say, I got very tired of the thing after a few months, after which I built my first Pentium 4 rig from the ground up, but it was a valuable training grounds for sure. Just like the first car I learned to drive on in many ways, which was a Volkswagon beetle.  So how did you get started?
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Re: My First Computer
Wednesday, July 09, 2014 6:34 AM
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I was thinking today of my first computer I had. It was a
16k TRS-80 Color Computer 1
Developed by the Tandy Corporation
Bought from Radio Shack
I was laughing because back then storage was a cassette tape. I would buy magazines every month and start writing the programs that would make things work. I remember sitting at that computer for like 4 days writing and at the end it showed Rudolf the red nose reindeer and it's nose lit up and I would put it on a cassette to save. Then one day my father back then took this computer to a computer repair store and they made it into a Color computer 2. Mind you don't know what the difference was. i still needed that cassette type for storage.
I think it was 1980 when I got it I was 10 years old
Boy has things changed
What was your first computer
+1 had the very same
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Re: My First Computer
Wednesday, July 09, 2014 6:38 AM
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My first pc was Macintosh II 
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Re: My First Computer
Wednesday, July 09, 2014 6:52 AM
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My first personal one was: i7 920 C0 6GB OCZ Gold 1600MHz DDR3 EVGA X58 SLI EVGA GTX 285 SSC ABS Tagan BZ1100 WD Caviar Green 1TB Xclio? case - no idea which Cooler Master V10 cooler 
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Re: My First Computer
Wednesday, July 09, 2014 7:44 AM
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I don't remember the specs, but it had Windows 3.1 
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Re: My First Computer
Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:53 AM
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My first rig was a Pentium II 350 Mhz and a Nvidia TNT2 32mb video card machine i built. Man i remember when i first saw Quake II in hardware acceleration instead of the software mode........ man i miss those days.
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Re: My First Computer
Thursday, July 10, 2014 2:22 AM
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My first computer was PowerMac G4 Cube with 512MB RAM. with OS9.0
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Re: My First Computer
Thursday, July 10, 2014 2:43 AM
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bambamshere
I was thinking today of my first computer I had. It was a
16k TRS-80 Color Computer 1
Developed by the Tandy Corporation
Bought from Radio Shack
I was laughing because back then storage was a cassette tape. I would buy magazines every month and start writing the programs that would make things work. I remember sitting at that computer for like 4 days writing and at the end it showed Rudolf the red nose reindeer and it's nose lit up and I would put it on a cassette to save. Then one day my father back then took this computer to a computer repair store and they made it into a Color computer 2. Mind you don't know what the difference was. i still needed that cassette type for storage.
I think it was 1980 when I got it I was 10 years old
Boy has things changed
What was your first computer
+1 had the very same
I would have probably still had it but my EX wife wanted everything I owned more then me. LOL
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Re: My First Computer
Thursday, July 10, 2014 2:45 AM
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I don't remember the specs, but it had Windows 3.1
I miss 3.1 and I miss how young I was when I had 3.1 lol
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Re: My First Computer
Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:01 PM
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Showing my age here, an Apple IIe in 1983 with that horrible green and black monitor.
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Re: My First Computer
Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:12 PM
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Showing my age here, an Apple IIe in 1983 with that horrible green and black monitor.
I remember playing Spy V Spy on one of these when I was 12 years old in school
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