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[The Fifth Horseman]

It was a 486, in early 1995.

486DX4-100
4 MB RAM
1 MB GPU
ESS 1887 soundcard
1 GB HDD

Came with Win 3.11 and DOS 6.22 dual-boot and a bunch of games.
I think demo versions of Doom and Raptor, full Wolfenstein 3D, Legend of Kyrandia 2 (with full Polish translation, voice-overs included... but the voice-over file got damaged at one point ) and a few others I don't really remember right now.

It got broken in 2004... late 2004, in fact... having served nearly 10 years. And it would probably serve for 10 more... if I haven't reversed the power plugs on the motherboard.
You know, the motherboard could support up to 4x64 MB SIMM-format RAM modules... Now, that's 256 megs max... something one would never suspect from such an old thing...

(drifts away in memories)

[LotharGR]

My first PC was very much the same

Amd 486dx/4 120
4MB RAM ( later it got upgraded to a whole 16MB )
Cirrus logic gfx card with 1MB
880MB hard disk
soundblaster pro combatible sound card ... :w00t:
Sony CD-ROM 2x
and a awful 14'' monitor LOL

[Mighty Midget]

There was a C64 at home before I got my own in 84? Tape, not floppy mind you Then I got the floppy drive (BIG step), then I broke the C64, got a new one, broke it, gave up. Got a third..... Broke it.....

93?: Amiga 500 (survived for about 6-7 years :Brain: ) because i NEEDED to play Monkey Island (!!!)

Last 5 years: 350Mhz, 850 MHz, 90 MHz, 350 MHz (shoved in a 600 MHz later:blink: ) now 1.4 GHz Athlon. The last 2 as the only survivors of experiments going wrong

[guesst]

My father had a Commodore PET computer which he wrote little BASIC programs on to quiz me in math and spelling. Watching him program it I got the bug myself.

Later, when we upgraded to the Vic20 and then C=64 (with a whopping 128k of ram) I began to program it in earnest. Any program disks and tapes for the PET or C=64 I could get my hands on I'd study the code for hours. I even wrote a few game myself, but quickly got annoyed with the limitations (speed) of BASIC.

But there were also a ton of great C=64 games too. Panther, Radar Rat Race, and others.

more later. Time to go to bed.

[TheGiantMidgit]

old DOS sucker. Played DooM alot, yearned for some solid NES Zelda for years until I finally got an NES.

[The Fifth Horseman]

and a awful 14'' monitor*

My PC came with a 15" one. I'm still using it, with my Sempron 2500-based rig. Old habits die hard...

[Ioncannon]

Originally posted by guesst@May 8 2006, 05:02 AM
Later, when we upgraded to the Vic20 and then C=64 (with a whopping 128k of ram)

Didn't the C64 have 64k of ram? Thats what it says on the box of mine...

[Mighty Midget]

Originally posted by Ioncannon+May 8 2006, 04:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Ioncannon @ May 8 2006, 04:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-guesst@May 8 2006, 05:02 AM
Later, when we upgraded to the Vic20 and then C=64 (with a whopping 128k of ram)

Didn't the C64 have 64k of ram? Thats what it says on the box of mine... [/b][/quote]
Could be the C128. I never had one of those, and for some reason it was sometimes called a C64... go figure :crazy:

[efthimios]

I remember "using" computers from like 1982 or so, though not what, when exactly or how. I was about 6yo at the time. I remember playing with a winter sports game on a PC back in 1984 I think, though I don't know which one. Also an atari console at about the same time.
In mid-late 1984 I was enrolled in a private school for computing classes. I spent there almost 3 years, doing basic, pascal, and a few other, plus a couple of programs like dbase etc. (no, I barely remember anything nowdays LOL)
Start of 1987 I got my first owned computer, an Atari ST 520STfm (512K ram, 128k(I think) rom black and white high res monitor (124f IIRC) and external 3.5 double sided disk drive, connected mostly to a TV for colour gaming) Used it like it was the best thing in the world for the next six years, when January I think 1992 I got the Atari MEGA STE model and a colour monitor.
Spring of 1993 I got an Amiga 1200 with 20MBs HDD and a philips monitor.
September 1994 I got my first PC, a Intel 486DX2@66 with 8MBs RAM, and ....I don't remember the HDD but I think it was 512MBs, and it also had a Cirrus Logic 5428 graphics card, a sound blaster 16, and a double speed philips CDROM drive.
At various points later years I upgraded it to
Cyrix 586 100
AMD k5 133 (I think)
AMD k6 300
plus one more but I dont remember what LOL
then in 1997-8 I think, I got a k6-2 400 with a voodoo2 with 12MBs!!! The first time I looked at 3D computer graphics and was like WOW!!! I played (came with the card) a Rage game, .....don't remember the title right now, shooter that you in each level you had either a stationary AAA, or a tank or a flying craft, freaking cool looking game, and a good shooter too. Also I had Unreal (the very first) which again looked amazing with the Voodoo2. (I think, my memory is a bit messed right now LOL)
Then at 2000 I bought a GeForce 256 DDR with 32MBs memory! (was it then that I got Unreal perhaps?....hmm)
after that the Geforce died horribly and decided to not go for another nvidia card. Got a diamond eh Kyro II which was a great great cheap card. After that I got my laptop in summer 2002 with a PIV @ 1700, 512MB Ram, 30GB HDD (replaced later with a 7200 60GB drive) and a Radeon 7500m.
Had a good almost 4 years with it till last winter when I got my current super system

Other memories that I remember are playing Doom with a friend, taking turns to play, and I was better :-p
Playing Two onTwo GBA championship basketball on both my Atari's and a friend's Amstrad 464CPC, and playing whole tournaments between us (and his brother). I would usualy have a 70% win ratio at my place while only about 40 or so at their place. Great memories. Playing colonial conquest, for hours and hours and days alone and with 2 of my best friends. Even managing one single time of playing for 3 straight days for breaks only to pee and eat, no sleep LOL. What a game. I still play that game of course.
And many other memories with other old games.

[peregy]

the first one was something with a few games like pong and some shooting game,then i got Pentium 1 ,couple of years later got a Pentium 2 and 5 years ago i got a Athlon 1800,256 ram and GeForce with 64 vram wich i upgraded some weeks ago in a Athlon 64-bit 3200+ with 1270 ram and N6600 with 256 vram

PS:if u wonder why i still have a x-mas avatar just to know that im lazy to change it