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My first computer was an Amiga 500, used a Motorola 68000 microprocessor that ran at 7.14 MHz and had 512 KB of RAM.

It was a revolution in computerworld that days :).

Playing games like, bundesliga manager hattrick, kick off2, zack mckracken...

Also lots software was available... 3d, music...

 

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This wasn't my own first computer, technically, but I grew up tinkering around with my dad's IBM Personal Computer XT. I still remember how it had a turbo button that would rocket it all the way from 5 MHz to a blistering 10, how my dad would frequently run repair reinstalls of the operating system (because apparently the hard drive was prone to losing data) with a stack of seventy 5 1/4-inch floppies, playing arithmetic games with ASCII graphics, and learning to program infinite loops in BASIC. Good times.

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On 9/17/2016 at 10:00 PM, Brixius said:

My first PC was a Corona Portable PC, It was based on an 8088, ran at a whopping 4.77 mhz, had 2 floppy drives, 256k of RAM and a monochrome screen, the keyboard tucked away into the cover that went over the face of the PC.  I later upgraded it to 512k of ram by buying 16 dram dips and plugging them in one by one hoping not to bend any pins.

 

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Wow I never seen like that before. I guess I was not that techy back then.

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On 12/22/2017 at 3:26 PM, trainwreck said:

Commodore-64! I remember buying magazine at the smoke shop to teach myself to code. The old computer magazines use to print out code for you, haha

 

I remember this,  My brother had this one known also as C64 and it became more popular in 1985.

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It was Atari 800XL,

remember breaking the tape that was used for loading the games, after that i learned how to type on it (i had  it connected to JVC TV :) )

my second Win PC,, was in 2003, bought used for roughly 150usd, Pentium 166MHZ (first one), 32mb ram, 1.5GB HDD, no sound card, integrated VGA by SIS

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On 9/17/2016 at 4:00 PM, Brixius said:

My first PC was a Corona Portable PC, It was based on an 8088, ran at a whopping 4.77 mhz, had 2 floppy drives, 256k of RAM and a monochrome screen, the keyboard tucked away into the cover that went over the face of the PC.  I later upgraded it to 512k of ram by buying 16 dram dips and plugging them in one by one hoping not to bend any pins.

 

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They wouldn´t sell computers with that name nowadays i guess,

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My first P.C was a Pentium 2 based custom hand-me-down from my father (he'd just made the jump to a Pentium 3 with 256mb of memory.

If I recall it had 64mb (then 128mb) memory and a 8GB(?) IDE hard drive. I remember breaking it trying to instal bleem! and a hauppage tv card that never worked properly :lol:

How far we have come

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