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Old 05-12-2010, 02:28 PM   #21
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My dad bought an Amstrad 1512 back in the mid eighties from The Brick. $2000 for that thing. It had a monochrome monitor and dual 5.25" floppy drives -woot!

Spent many hours in front of it playing Rampage, Police Quest 1-2 (Sonny Bonds woohoo!) and Kings Quest 1-3. Ahhh. Those were simple times...
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Old 05-12-2010, 02:53 PM   #22
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I used an Apple IIe in elementary. My first computer owned was a 386 SX-16. It had a turbo button to bring it from a fast 10MHZ to a blazing 16MHZ when engaged. It had 4 MB of RAM, and an 80MB HDD. I remember trying to play Mortal Kombat on that sucker. It was not pleasant.
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Old 05-12-2010, 03:29 PM   #23
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I had this list I made a long time ago from somewhere else


AM386 DX33 800nm
33MHz
1991?
My first CPU, and yes, also the first CPU that I ever used the internet with! It barely worked in Win 3.1


Intel Pentium 200 MMX P54CS 350nm
200MHz
1997?


Intel Pentium III Slot 1 Coppermine 250nm
450MHz (Overclocked on Abit BX6 R2 @ 4.5 x 129 = 581MHz)
2000?
My first overclock


AMD Athlon XP 1700+ Palomino 1467 MHz (Overclocked on Abit AT7 Max @ ??UNKNOWN??) 180nm
2002?
AMD Athlon XP 1900+ Thoroughbred 1600 MHz (Overclocked on Abit AT7 Max @ CRUSHED BY BAD HEATSINK INSTALL) 130nm
2003?
AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ Barton (mobile) 1867 MHz (Overclocked on DFI Infinity NFII Ultra @ ??UNKNOWN??) 130nm
2004?


AMD Opteron 146 Venus 90nm
2.0GHz (Overclocked on Shuttle SN95G5 @ 10x280 = 2.8GHz?)
2005?


AMD Athlon 64 3800+ X2 Manchester 65nm
2.0GHz (Overclocked on Shuttle SN21G5 @ 10x260 for a strange buggy bios result of 2.583GHz)
2006?


Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield B3 45nm
2.4GHz (Overclocked on Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P @ 9x400 = 3.6GHz)
2009
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Old 05-12-2010, 03:36 PM   #24
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I was spoiled... skipped the commodore generation & had a 386!
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Old 05-12-2010, 03:59 PM   #25
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Old 05-12-2010, 04:03 PM   #26
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First computer I used was some sort of mainframe - learned how to program Fortran on it

First computer I owned was a 286 clone with 640K RAM and 40MB hard drive and a 14.4 modem -- I used it to dial into university for assignments and CUUG for usenet groups (rec.sports.hockey.clgry-flames anyone?)
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Old 05-12-2010, 04:06 PM   #28
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My favourite thing about Windows 3.1 was how firing up the modem used to knock out the mouse.

Mmm... IRQ conflicts...
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Old 05-12-2010, 04:12 PM   #29
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March was the 25th anniversary of the Apple LaserWriter printer.

First printer to use Adobes PostScript and revolutionized desktop publishing.

8ppm, 300dpi, $7,000. Also, it was the fastest 'computer' at the time at a whopping 12mhz.
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Old 05-12-2010, 04:21 PM   #30
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IBM 286 with TWO MEGS of ram!
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Old 05-12-2010, 05:25 PM   #32
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My favourite thing about Windows 3.1 was how firing up the modem used to knock out the mouse.

Mmm... IRQ conflicts...
Bus mouse for the win .... mmmm ... .bus mouse
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110 baud modem for it too. Anyone else remember FidoNet?
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Old 05-12-2010, 05:49 PM   #34
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#3 for the Adam. Was I ever excited to get that thing.
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Old 05-12-2010, 05:56 PM   #35
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Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer

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Old 05-12-2010, 06:29 PM   #36
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had a vic20 in the early 80's, but the first ibm pc the family had was an 1987 philips 286, 8mhz, with a blistering 640kb of memory and a 45MB hard drive.... didnt have the upgraded 1.44 floppy drive, thing cost 3800 with a syncrude discount... leisure suit larry rocked.... and so did the rest of the sierra games....
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Old 05-12-2010, 06:30 PM   #37
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Sweet. That's the ZX-81 in American disguise!

The ZX-83 aka Spectrum is one of my favorite classic British computers.

This is the Winter Games (Calgary Olympics!) running on a Spectrum

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Old 05-12-2010, 06:37 PM   #38
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Old 05-12-2010, 06:38 PM   #39
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I was a computer snob to all the C64 owners because my parents bought me a Commodore 128!!! It's sitting in my parent's basement....

The first computer *I* ever bought personally was a 486. I tried getting the chip turned into a keychain but nobody wanted to try drilling through the ceramic. So that's up in my box of memorabilia where I keep all my ticket stubs from concert's I've gone to....
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Old 05-12-2010, 07:05 PM   #40
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C64 ... I remember my Dad bringing it home and playing Pole Position on the dining room table.
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