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Old February 11th 04, 09:39 PM
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Andrew wrote:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:40:18 -0000, "scott" wrote:

BBC-B 1MHz, upgraded the RAM to 32Meg... oops I mean K, and added
the disc filing system chip. I think it was a bit too much of an
upgrade though, it overheated and got fuzzy lines on the screen if
played for too long ;-)

The instability was probably due to it being a cheap clone of the
BBC-B, the real ones were a staggering 2Mhz! ;-)


Ah good point, it probably was 2MHz! Wow, I could almost do sums that fast
:-)


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Old February 11th 04, 09:49 PM
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just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1
meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol



Amstrad 286 20Meg HDD 1MB RAM cost £100 to upgrade to 4MB. Bought to do OU
course 1992. If the bloke in Dixons had known what he was talking about i
would have bought the 386 instead. He told me it only had a few unimportant
extras!! :-)

Bob


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Old February 11th 04, 10:59 PM
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First one I used:

TRS-80 Model III

First one I owned:

Atari 800XL - 64k (later upgraded to 256k)

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Old February 11th 04, 11:02 PM
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My first comp i remember getting was a Commodore 16 + 4 with all the basic
goodies loved me basic with 16k mem! lol My first PC was a 486 DX2 66mhz
with 4meg system ram and a graphics card with an astounding 512k mem!!! heh

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:18:36 -0800, "raj" wrote:

:just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1
:meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol
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Old February 11th 04, 11:18 PM
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My first real computer was an amiga 1200 with a 4mb ram expansion,
400mb 3.5" HDD, 14in monitor, squirell scsi pc card with a dual speed
cdrom.

My first PC was rented from radio rentals, and it was an olivetti
machine. It had 8Mb Ram, P100 CPU and a 1Gb HDD. Also had 1Mb onboard
VGA. 4x CDROM and soundcard. To upgrade it i spent nearly a hundred
pound another 2x 4Mb SIMMs to take the ram to 16Mb and i added another
800Mb HDD. Also got a 250Mb Colorado tape drive to go in it.

Still have the pc in the spare room, i mite just fire it up
later.........

regards

paul
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Old February 11th 04, 11:49 PM
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"Martin Francis" m wrote in
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"raj" wrote in message
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just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin

1
meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol


C64- later version with body-coloured keys and matching tape drive. never
had a 5.25" FDD, though....

That would have been 1987/8, when I was about 5 years old. Sold it in

about
'93 with a ton of games for £100.


Odd... not as many complete young 'uns answered as you'd think....

I'd have expected at least one "Sega Genesis/Megadrive" or "Sony
Playstation".

While i'm indulging in nostalgia, i'll mention that after the C64 I got a
Sega Game Gear some time in the early 90s, and my first PC was September
1993- an Amstrad MegaPC, which had a rather aging 386SX25 processor, 2Mb
Ram, 256Kb Video RAM, and a 40Mb hard drive. MS-DOS 5.0 OS- those were the
days! You could have Windows 3.1 installed, or you could have a game, but
never both- and a flip panel on the front which turned it into a Sega
Genesis/Megadrive console!

Which was brilliant, until I did some upgrading and the console bit stopped
working.


Ah, to be eleven again...

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Old February 11th 04, 11:52 PM
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:18:36 -0800, "raj" wrote:
TRS-80. Just hook up your cassette player and go
just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1
meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol


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Old February 12th 04, 12:38 AM
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"raj" wrote in message
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just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1
meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol



Tandy-1000 RLX here.... bought a 10gig seagate hard drive, a SCREAMING 1200
baud modem, upgraded the 512k with a 512k *zip chip* for a total of 1mb of
ram for it and I thought it was the bomb. Remember Deskmate (the graphical
*Windows like* GUI?) Mine came with a copy of the very first Prince Of
Persia game which at the time was very kewl. First kickass game I
downloaded was on AOL (or was that Prodigy...can't remember now...think they
were the only two around that I recall) and it was called Wolfenstein.....
couldn't wait to show that game off to my bro.... two days later he was out
buying the same setup..


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Old February 12th 04, 12:43 AM
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"Guardian" wrote in message
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"raj" wrote in message
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just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin

1
meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol



Tandy-1000 RLX here.... bought a 10gig seagate hard drive, a SCREAMING

1200

Correction.... that was a 10mb hard drive.......yuck.... biatch cost me over
$300 just for the drive.


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Old February 12th 04, 12:50 AM
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In alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia, raj ordered an army of hamsters to
type:

just name your first computer you ever owned, mine was a 286 wit smokin 1
meg of ram 24 meg hardrive lol and one of those new floppy drives lol





Sinclair Spectrum +2 128k. I had the larger one with the intergrated
cassette drive, and in gray too. Later they were black.

I also aquired an older 48k model with the rubber keys (ik!), but it never
replaced the 128.

4mhz cpu if i remember corectly.
 




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