Do you remember your first computer?

**gearhead** · August 31st, 2007 01:09 PM

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** · August 31st, 2007 01:13 PM

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** · August 31st, 2007 01:18 PM

.....XT clone

**nicolodeon** · August 31st, 2007 01:17 PM

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** · August 31st, 2007 01:20 PM

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** · August 31st, 2007 01:25 PM

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** · August 31st, 2007 01:30 PM

Oops... doble.

**niky** · August 31st, 2007 01:30 PM

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** · August 31st, 2007 01:37 PM

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** · August 31st, 2007 01:39 PM

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.