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.

[BlueBimmer]

.....XT clone

[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.

[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...

[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.

[kimpOy]

yep kaso hindi ko alam specs, it was my dad who bought it at the old virra mall

siyempre clone PC siya
green monitor
interesado lang ako sa games
1-on-1 Dr.J vs Bird
Olympics games...bilisan na pag pindot
serpentine
10k yata bili ni daddy
and ofcourse kailangan mo ng DOS to run all of them he..he

[torque2006]

i was six when my dad brought home a 386 computer. i played mario PC, and wolfenstein 3d on it. hehe.

i also cried when it got a virus. a friend of mine dropped by to install a batman game. turns out his floppy had a virus, and it caused the PC to crash. i was crying my heart out because i thought my dad would kill me for destroying the PC. but all went well when a computer technician my mom called fixed it.

[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!

[nicolodeon]

I remember writing lines of COBOL code on a sheet of paper similar to a graphing paper, where each block represents an alhpanumeric character. Most of the time, one app amounts to a thick wad of these things. We either then punch them in on the machine, or ask any of our juniors to do it for us. However, nothing beats the sheer time consuming activity of punching code on punch cards. One mistake, that's it and since each card has to be arranged sequentially, you better have a numbering system in place on your cards because you might trip on your way to the computer room and scatter every single bit of card on the floor - arranging them would be next to impossible.

[kinyo]

Commodore 64 ... using cassete tape for storage and cartridge for games ... last thing i remember was programming it as a frequency counter, it worked up to 30kHz, good enough for audio signals

[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

[prysm_1]

first computer ko
Color computer TRS 80 version 1
BASIC programming
64Kb memory

nagkaroon yung kuya ko ng PC XT clone
256kb
2 floppy drive
dito ako natututo mag assembly sa intel CPU
dito ako gumawa ng submarine game using assembly a GATO clone

tapus first computer built
286AT clone
1M Ram
CGA monitor
Plywood case para makamura heheh
nagkamali pa ko sa pag bili ng floppy drive naninira ng floppy
650 pesos pa naman yun.
later nilag yan ko 40MB HD
MS DOS replaced command.com with my own 3Kb version
with pseudo multitasking.
para makatipid sa HD space.
Dito ako una nakapag BBS sa philippines
and later used it for internet.
pinicturan ko pa bago ko pinalitan
ginamit ko ito hangang college hehehe 1998
later discovered minix and planned to install. pero may trbaho
na ko eh so pwede na mag upgrade.

[alfrancis]

Year 1997 (if I'm not mistaken)


Pentium Classic 100 Mhz
Intel Triton Motherboard
16 MB Ram
1.5 GB IDE Hard Drive (Quantum Big Foot)
2 MB Intel Graphics Accelerator
1.44 MB Floppy Drive
15" Mag Color Monitor
PS/2 Keyboard & Mouse

Note: walang cdrom/ cdwriter
Occupation: College Student (Scholar ng Parents...hehehe)

2007:

AMD Athlon FX 3.6 Ghz 64 Bit Processor
Gigabyte Motherboard
2 GB RAM
160 GB + 250 GB SATA Hard Drive
256 MB PCI Express Video Card
DVD Rom
DVD Dual Layer Writer
17" LCD Monitor
Wireles Keyboard & Mouse

Note: walang Floppy Drive
Occupation: IT Engineer (Slave ng asawa)

[HardCharger]

If memory serves, mine was a:

386MHz processor with a tower case
64MB RAM
5.25 floppy drive
3.5 floppy drive
CD-ROM
300MB Hard Drive
15" monitor
sound blaster sound card
VGA graphics card
plug-in speakers

it ran on MS-DOS and had Windows 3.1 which was the new standard back then.