My very first PC (1995-1996):
White midi tower with:
- CPU: Cyrix 486DX5-133
- RAM: 16 MB EDO
- GPU: S3 Trio 64v+
- HDD: 850 MB HDD (slow)
-I/O: Mitsumi CDRom 1x + 3,5" Floppy
- SND: Soundblaster with Gameport
- DSP: 14" CRT (800x600)
- OS: DOS 6.2 + Norton Commander
Played gems like Heretic, Doom2, Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 and EF2000 on that machine.
Mid 1997, I got a spare memory stick from my brother to upgrade to 32MB so that I could install Windows 95 on it 😆
About 6000 somewhat parallel calculations a second. Not bad, to be honest! #colossus #FirstComputer
🖥️ Got our first family computer in 1993.
Tore it apart. Put it back together.
Then showed the teacher how to use one.
90s tech kids = trial by fire.
#90sTech #TechNostalgia #FirstComputer #AwesomeCast
There it is. My first computer. It needs some cleaning. And some keys are really yellow but the next summer will hopefully fix that.
You guys probably know what it means that there are two drive belts on the photo. To be safe I ordered two not just one. I hope with a new belt the floppy drive will be okay. Apart from that, it seems to work so far.
In 1985 my dad bought such a CPC 664 and a year later he got himself the 6128 while I got his 664.
I'm so excited.
@adafruit
I should've posted this on your TRS-80 day.
My (family's) first computer was a TRS80-compatible Dick Smith System 80.
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_s80.htm
For a printer, we had an actual mechanical teletype with an interface box driven by the audio output.
I upgraded the RAM from 16kiB to 48kiB by stacking more chips on top of the existing ones, with IIRC chip select pins bent up and connected to some extra logic.
Thinking back, pretty sure the first programming I got to play with was Logo, then Basic, then Pascal... Late 80s into 90s our first computer was an IBM PS/2 #firstcomputer #retrocomputing
@adafruit My first home computer was a Heathkit Microprocessor Trainer which I bought because I loved writing machine language programs at work in the late 1970s. #firstcomputer #retrocomputing
@adafruit I still have a stash of old printed Byte magazines, mostly because "Chaos Manor" was always such an entertaining read. #firstcomputer #retrocomputing
@adafruit My #firstcomputer! Probably 1982, with the cassette drive of course. No monitor, just plugged into the TV.
🎄💾🗓️ Day 1: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - Apple II 🎄💾🗓️
We kick things off with the legendary Apple II! Released in 1977, it was one of the first highly successful personal computers, known for its revolutionary design, colorful graphics, and expandability. Created by Steve Wozniak, the Apple II sparked the personal computing revolution.
What was your #FirstComputer?
Mine was midi tower with a Cyrix Cx486DX4 (75Mhz), 8MB of memory, an S3 Trio 64v+ graphics card and a whopping 850MB hard drive. Display was a 14“ CRT that could only output up to 800x600 pixels. The operating system on it was Dos 6.x and I was a regular Norton Commander user.
Later that computer got upgraded by my brother to a Pentium MMX 166Mhz with 16MB ram and a 2,x GB hard drive with Windows 95, before I discovered Linux on a CDRom in a magazine and broke everything while trying to install it but not understanding the concept of partitions😅
Later that computer was running on dual boot with #Suse #linux and Windows 95 and I leaned C programming on the machine.
In the mid 1980s in my early teen years, I had an Epson HX-20 notebooks for a few months. I remember that I created wild iterated colour math plots with the in-built printer using experimental combinations of trigonometric functions in simple BASIC programs.
Had access to Apple computers before that and bought an Atari computer later.
#FirstComputer #VintageComputer #Epson
I had a nifty C64 word processing program from Compute magazine and some other productivity shareware (like Lucid).
I used the 64 at home until I eventually got a PC.
I did do a video project on a college Toaster once.
This was the families first computer that we ever had. :) #firstcomputer https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3073/retro-scan-the-tandy-sensation
What was your first personal computer? Mine (circa 1989): Sanyo MBC 1550, green CRT monitor, two 3.5” drives, DOS 2.x and WordStar. Had to save papers as single space to fit a 15 page paper on one floppy. @timbray what was your first computer? #FirstComputer #ReTootAndRespond
Still got my first classic pong system (Conic TVG-209) from 1977
#FirstComputer #Retrocomputing #RetroGaming #VintageComputer #Oldskool #Videogames
How many bits did your #firstcomputer had ?
Post a reply if you started with one of those odd-ball #DEC #PDP machines 😉
I'm remembering my #firstcomputer
486DX 33MHz
RAM 8MiB
HDD 235MiB
CDROM + 3.5" floppy drive
Graphics Cirrus Logic 256 colors
15" monitor
Windows 95
#nostalgia
my #firstcomputer was a TI-99/4A by Texas Instruments. we did indeed have the speech synthesizer, which was kind of unique to the TI, as well as a tape deck as an external drive.
i wrote a few things in BASIC out of the BASIC FUN book for kids and played a lot of Parsec. https://icosahedron.website/media/Mq4JNP4YnChJ2xpueVU https://icosahedron.website/media/m44E-77H1_2IXY3Q3tk https://icosahedron.website/media/6e9WpnUDYoYEwNmXsAQ https://icosahedron.website/media/VjIHLGU_ITQMk-3222g
