Do you remember your first computer?

[gearhead]

Or even what its specs were? I recall having a commodore clone (i think) sometime in the 80s. It was pre-windows days and you had to boot it yourself or rather run the executions by commanding the comp. I can't for the life of me even remember the speed of the processor or how much HD space it contained. I thought 1 gig was a lot. Maybe even far fetched and not needed. Now it is nothing.

Any tales from your first foray with your first comp?

Floppy drive anyone? Cobol classes? Basic? Or is this too jurassic for most?

[n2knee]

my first computer (yung akin talaga) was a Compaq Presario Pentium I with one gig of hard drive. that was in the early 90's.

[nicolodeon]

gearhead, I can relate. Took classes in BASIC, PL/1, Fortran, Pascal, Assembly and COBOL. I still know how to code in COBOL, he he he. The first floppy disk I used was a single sided, single density disk measuring 8" which we used on an ICL mid-range computer. Marunong din ako dating mag-puch sa puch cards, he he he. Nakagamit na rin ako ng magnetic tapes on a Borroughs/Unisys machine, he he he..

Although, my first computer was a 1st gen Pentium: P-166, 64MB mem, 2GB HDD, S3 Virge card, Canopus Pure3D 3DFX card, 14x CD-ROM, Yakumo bookshelf speakers, Aureal Vortex sound card plus the usual FDD, keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc.

[BlueBimmer]

.....XT clone

[alwayz_yummy]

apple computer nung inuwi ng dad ko from saudi noong 1986/earlier... floppy drive, windows 1.1, dos 5 pa ata...orange monitor, kb, not tower...

[meledson]

The first PC that I brought was an AMD 386DX-40. 40Mhz, 14" paper white monitor, 1.2MB and 1.44MB FDD, 2MB Memory, 2DMAX Video Card.

Upgrades:
387 Math co-processor
Seagate 40MB HDD
16-bit Sound Blaster
4x CDROM Drive
80MB QIC tape drive

[ineedmorehp]

IBM XT desktop - green CRT, 4MB HDD, 386sx, 5.25" FDD, DOS
Clone XT tower - paper white CRT, 8MB, 486dx, 5.25" & 3.5" FDDs, MSDOS
Compaq Presario - colored CRT (built-in everything), P1 60Mhz, 600MB HDD 16MB RAM, 5.25" & 3.5" FDDs, WIN95

then mga modern na... grabe evolution ng computer. hehehe

Portables:
APple mac & some sort of tablet pc (very thick)

[niky]

Oops... doble.

[niky]

Pweh... mga noobs kayong lahat!

Like Nico, I've used magnetic tape... but I can't for the life of me remember any of the programming language I used when I was a kid.

[badsekktor]

commodore 64.... early 80's grade 1 yata ako nun. di pa uso floppy since cartridge type pa bala. wala pa os nun. had my share of programming in basic... remember those line numbers and the goto command? hehehe!