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Posted November 28, 2011
Vic 20 for me then went a long time without a computer at all. Next one was an iMac in1998
Posted November 28, 2011
1984 - Ohio Scientific with separate 8" floppies. It had 48k of RAM. I was in a doctoral program in psychology and wrote a program in basic for doing some psychological test scoring. The program took up about 24k and would load but wouldn't run because the OS took up the other 24k.

The next year I got an Eagle (CP/M OS) with integrated 5 1/4" floppies and much more RAM (I don't recall them amount).

Finally got my first IBM in 1986 - a PC-XT with a 32 mb hard drive and 640k RAM. Life was good ;-)
Posted November 28, 2011
Mine was a Pravetz 82 (older peeps from behind the iron curtain may recognize the brand ;)). It is more or less an illegal Apple || copy, and had only 48k RAM, but it ran Karateka and Hard Hat Mack just fine.
Posted November 28, 2011
Amstrad 464 with green screen and tape
Amstrad 6128 with colour monitor and disk and tape
then some generic PC 486 I think

aahh I miss my Arnold! ;)
Posted November 28, 2011
I got a Atari 2600 console hand-me-down from my cousin when he got his C64 when I was 7, then I got my own C64 when I was 9, over the years I got the action replay cart, the disk drive, the whole she-bang
I held onto it for so long that by the time I went to the Amiga it was the cut-down, keypadless A600, I then promptly paid £10 for one of the very few games that absolutely required the keypad! - Mercenry II - Damocleus!
My first PC was an Acer P150 that I immediatly overclocked to 166Mhz Whoooo!
The 1Gb HD was always getting full, even back then
Posted November 28, 2011
If I recall correctly, an IBM. Got it back around 1995 or so. It ran Win 95, with the only other thing about it that I recall being that it had about 612 MB memory.

I do recall the next one a bit better, though, from 1998: a Compaq Presario running at 350 MHz with 64 MB RAM and I think 2 GB memory. It ran Win 98 and received a Riva TNT2 (PCI) upgrade pretty soon. I think the motherboard or processor was a K6-2, or maybe that's the chipset for one or the other. We actually ended up buying a 128 MB RAM stick for it a few years after we replaced it as an attempt to keep it useful for a while longer, but unfortunately that didn't really improve performance in any way that I could tell.

The third PC (2002) was a Dell 4450, I think. 2.2 GHz processor, 64 MB Geforce 3 card (don't recall model), 512 MB RAM, Windows XP, 80 GB hard drive. Used it for almost seven years before the processor fan died, causing the PC to refuse to boot at all. This rig cost almost three times as much as it should have, to be honest - I have no idea why we didn't go to a cheaper place.

My current desktop, from 2008, is a pre-built thing (as in, I chose the parts, they built it) from komplett.se. Dual cores clocking in at 3.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB hard drive, Vista 64, P5K motherboard, 8800GT 512 MB and, best of all, an Antec 900 chassis. It's got a window and blue lights! Unfortunately, the graphics card has died, so I'm relegated to my inferior laptop.

My laptop (2009), being an Asus and a gift, is not half-shabby on paper: 4 GB RAM, 2.16 GHz dual core and dual hard drives at 232/221 GB respectively (never used the second one, though). I think the screen is 19'' as well. Unfortunately, it's got a barely-functioning graphics card (Radeon 3400 512 MB) and uses Vista 32. Yep, I can't even take advantage of most of the specs. It's a shame I can't afford a new graphics card for my desktop, so I guess I'll have to stick to playing games from before I was a teenager if I want to get frame rates above said teens. Other than that I mostly use it for work, or at least I did when I was working.
Post edited November 28, 2011 by Whitecroc
Posted November 28, 2011
Atari ST (1040 STF)
Post edited November 28, 2011 by Leroux
Posted November 28, 2011
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Whitecroc: If I recall correctly, an IBM. Got it back around 1995 or so. It ran Win 95, with the only other thing about it that I recall being that it had about 612 MB memory.

I do recall the next one a bit better, though, from 1998: a Compaq Presario running at 350 MHz with 64 MB RAM and I think 2 GB memory. It ran Win 98 and received a Riva TNT2 (PCI) upgrade pretty soon. I think the motherboard or processor was called P5-2 (K5-2?) or something like that. There was a 5-2 involved. We actually ended up buying a 128 MB RAM stick for it a few years after we replaced it as an attempt to keep it useful for a while longer, but unfortunately that didn't really improve performance in any way that I could tell.
I was confused when I first read this but I think you are using 'memory' and 'hard drive space' interchangably, its a lot morte usual to use 'RAM' and 'Memory' interchangably so I thought your Win95 box had 612Mb RAM for a while...
Posted November 28, 2011
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lukaszthegreat: My first computer i got in 1993 for my first communion was Amiga 600. It did not have hard drive and i connected it to tv. Played the shit out of superfrog but also kick off (or sensible soccer. not sure which)
In Sensible Soccer the ball stuck to your feet when you where in possesion, in Kick Off it didn't, your players were like shuffle puck bats and quite uncontrolable (by me anyway) In a mildly hilarious way though!
Posted November 28, 2011
The ball didn't stick to your feet in Sensi either, it was just more evident due to the ball physics in Kick Off. It was easier to dribble and turn in Sensi, while the ball was very light and difficult to control in Kick Off.

But it does stick to the feet in Sensi on Megadrive (perhaps Snes version too?), and it even has its own dumbed down homing-missile shot button (automatic shot on goal). The Amiga version was always the one to play, as opposed to the kiddie version (MD or SNES).
Posted November 28, 2011
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StarEye: The ball didn't stick to your feet in Sensi either, it was just more evident due to the ball physics in Kick Off. It was easier to dribble and turn in Sensi, while the ball was very light and difficult to control in Kick Off.

But it does stick to the feet in Sensi on Megadrive (perhaps Snes version too?), and it even has its own dumbed down homing-missile shot button (automatic shot on goal). The Amiga version was always the one to play, as opposed to the kiddie version (MD or SNES).
Yeah, I was on the Amiga too - memory must be failing
It WAS a hell of a lot easier to control than Kick Off though
I remember we got the formations down so well that we could pass it up the field and score before the screen could scoll, whenever a less experienced player gave us a game they thought we were cheating!
Posted November 28, 2011
The details on my computer i cant remember much besides that it was a compaq from the 1990's. i also know that it had windows 98 as an operating system.
Posted November 28, 2011
A Leading Edge model M 8088 PC clone.

http://www.blarworld.net/aboutme.html
Not my web site but that's what the machine looked like.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/digger
It could play a mean game of Digger.
Posted November 28, 2011
Atari ST for me. I wish I'd hung on to that one.
Posted November 28, 2011
the first pc had a pentium 133 mhz,16 MB of ram,2-6 GB of hard disk(don't remember well),windows 95,21 games on dos(my post at "Introduce myself")
it is now in the hand of police office

the second pc had a pentium 3 600 mhz,128 MB ram,20 GB hard disk,windows 98
it's now used by a friend of my mom,a woman teacher(like mom)

the third pc had a pentium 4 3ghz,512 MB ram,an Ati Radeon 9200 se,a 300 GB hard disk and windows xp
i have gifted it to a L.U.G.(Linux User Group)that is in a town near to mine

this one have a Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2,33 GHz,4 GB of DDR2 ram,a philips 191ew monitor,an nvidia geforce gts450,a 1 terabyte seagate hard disk and windows 7 ultimate 64 sp1
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