What was your first computer?

[RT Cunningham]

(Oct-14-2009 01:32 AM)RegDCP Wrote:  

Compaq Portable
1983
Price $3,000 plus for a typical configuration
Current Value $25-$100

Specifications
Processor Intel 8088
Speed 4.77 MHz
RAM 128K-640K
ROM Approximately 12K
Storage 2 5.25" 360K floppy drives

"Portable" meant that it could be carried by 2 men and a small boy.

That looks suspiciously like the IBM green machines we used at the time and even the Commodore SX-64 (much later), but I bet it was monochrome. I think it really just required two men. :biggrin:

[carbonize]

In chronological order

Sinclair Spectrum 48k (love those rubber keys and audio cassette storage)
Commodore 64
Sinclair Spectrum 128k +3 (yay it has a floppy drive)
Commodore Amiga 500

First electronic device was possibly Grandstand games console followed by pretty much every games console ever released including Atari Jaguar and Sega Saturn

[Pixel Art]

My first computer is so old and long gone that I can't remember!

How much did people spend on their computers?

[RT Cunningham]

I can't remember how much all of them cost, but I can remember the first Pentium 60 with Winblows 3.11 on it. It was $2400. I had do the installment thing. I think that was in 1994.

[dvdreplication]

My first computer was a P3 with 50mb ram, and that was gifted by my father, i still have this computer in my room, even i am using my apple laptop.

[w3bmaster]

A DX 100 back in 1994
33 MHZ CPU
64 m.b hdd
Ram and Video memory was something like 500k