What's random about it? Back in 1997 it was the first computer available for under a grand including a monitor, hence it fit within my budget at the time. When I went to upgrade it I realized it wasn't much of a bargain...
[quote="sandmanwnCTX Model NuTopia KIP450 Intel Pentium II 450 MHz (I never could figure out if this was a PII or PIII, the bios and writing on the processor said PII but I always recalled the PIII started at 450 :? )
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The fastest Pentium II model is the 450MHz which was the last release. yes Pentium III starts there but Pentium IIs ends there too 8)
The fastest Pentium II model is the 450MHz which was the last release. yes Pentium III starts there but Pentium IIs ends there too
Right. I bought a Gateway P2 450 machine, which I gave to my daughter a year later when I bought their P3 500. She complained about getting "used leftovers" and didn't buy my explanation that he who gets the paycheck gets to have the latest and greatest . Finally got tired of her whining so after noticing the front panels on both machines were identical, I switched the front panels and told her she now had the P3. She was happy for several years, never noticing the 'Pentium II 450 MHz" bootup screen
386sx 33Mhz really wanted the dx because it had the build in copro It came with 2MB of simm mem and I went out and paid £100 for another 2MB so I could play Doom in a really small window lol! Thats not the worst of it! I sold my Motorbike to buy a 486 cpu and board (Intel DX2/66) when I think back its really bad but in real terms I am still doing it now
This was my first one but don't remember the specs. Here is a link to info about this great machine. Just think back in 1979 it cost $1000. Think what that would equal to today.
I still have this machine and remember typing for two days to create a two page program in basic that ran from a tape recorder. They still auction them on Ebay and maybe I will too since some people really like collecting these old computers just like antique cars. I also remember the old cards we key punched to run some simple stats on the Big Burroughs computer at school. It filled a fair size room. I guess this sort of dates me, right?
IBM w/ 8088 cpu, 640k memory, two 5.25 floppys, and a 10mb HD with an RLL controller that bumped it to a whopping "I'll never use all that space" 20mb, and a Paradise monochrome video card. Jeez, we're showing our age now.
IBM w/ 8088 cpu, 640k memory, two 5.25 floppys, and a 10mb HD with an RLL controller that bumped it to a whopping "I'll never use all that space" 20mb, and a Paradise monochrome video card. Jeez, we're showing our age now.
Yeah, I had this one too. It was my second one I think. I had a monitor that had fluorescent orange characters when you type it in. Come to think of it I had many of these computers people have listed her over the past 25 years. Unfortunately I still have many of them in the garage.
IBM w/ 8088 cpu, 640k memory, two 5.25 floppys, and a 10mb HD with an RLL controller that bumped it to a whopping "I'll never use all that space" 20mb, and a Paradise monochrome video card. Jeez, we're showing our age now.
Yeah, I had this one too. It was my second one I think. I had a monitor that had fluorescent orange characters when you type it in. Come to think of it I had many of these computers people have listed her over the past 25 years. Unfortunately I still have many of them in the garage. Yeah, I upgraded to a 16-color vga card, and with a Norton "Be" command, we could make DOS display in TWO colors. Whoa!
My first computer was an Apple IIe. No hard drive, 5.25 inch external floppy drives - that really were floppy, and green screen monitor. I doubled the normal memory with two sticks totalling 128K. Dot matrix printer.
I remember how neat it was when I saw my first color monitor and, strangely, how neat it was to hear sounds coming out of a pc - just little beeps and short recorded snippets.
Later I boght another Apple - I don't remember the name - and my processor moved up to a speedy 33 Mhz.
After moving to San Jose I finally upgraded to a Gateway G6 266Mhz. When it became data, I upgraded it by installing a conversion kit and another 500 Mhz processor.
The first 'real' computer I ever owned was the Amiga 500 made by Commodore. Oh man, that thing was so awesome. The games rocked and it kept running for years and years.
My first IBM-compatible (lol) was a Pentium 100MHz. Honestly, since I was still using my Amiga so much more at the time, I can't even remember the rest of the specs.
A pentium 200MMX, 32Megs of EDO RAM and a 2 MB graphics card. But i started learning about PCs on a 286 with no HDD, no mouse, and no color ... DOS and EDIT (on a separate 5inch floppy) ...back then, "Double Sided Double Density IBM formatted" was as publicized as today's perpendicular recording.....
My first was an 8080a/s-100 bus/CP-M machine I soldered together myself.
My first purchased computer was an Apple II+.
I still have a Mac SE in a closet. I had an original mac motherboard until a couple of years ago (I kept it after I ugraded the mac to a Fat Mac). I used an Apple Lisa prior to the Mac... does anyone remember Lisa cancer?
I had an original 4mhz IBM AT that I overclocked to 6mhz with a new clock I bought at Radio Shack. The original AT's had the clock in a socket so it was a slam dunk to upgrade it.
The AST 6-pak boards and Hayes Smartmodems. Them were the days.
My first 386 was an ALR. They came out with a 386 before IBM.
I've built so many 386 and 486's that I can't remember them all.
These days they're just tools/applicances/toys and I buy them off the shelf. I think I have 7 computers in my home and two in my weekend place.
My first PC had 33Mhz CPU speed, and 512k RAM. Cant remember the model, but my gosh. How I ever survived??? I loved playing a game called Nightmare on Elm Street. The other one was Double Dragon. I'm going to Google Images.
Whooaaa.....some of you guys have been playing with those dinosaurs while i was still sucking....erm....milk...
1st
286 me think,don't know the speed;old pc at that time
2 x 5.25" floppy disk
12" or so mono monitor
I was forced to learn Wordstar and Lotur DBase, but well,I didn't Was so envied my friends who were playing warcraft (or warcraft 2 :?: dunno on newer machines )
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hmmm my first ever I touched was a :
286 10 MHz 512kb ram and 128 kb videoram.
monocrome..
May be it's this one...
1st build
Cyrix MII 233MHz
32mb ram
Tx sth board with one of the suxest bios i've ever seen
3.2gb seagate medalist
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actually, its via who should be blamed of this reputation, since most of their chipsets where terrible, with insane amounts of faults, yet they delivered the products, its almost like intel paid via "make the worst chipsets ever for them" XD
And dont forget Sis chipsets too...I think they are a lot worse than Via's
I remember when I continued my study to tertiary lvl,my friend had this pc which has AMD K6-2 300MHz,64MB ram and Eon Picasso 8Mb vga card that sometimes beat even a Voodoo in certain games while the other with a 486 that have an MPEG card....VCD never looked so good on a pc at that time.when another richer boy bought a Pentium II 350MHz,we were like 'I'm gonna kill him and stole his pc!'
Sol Processor Technolgy - Sol-20
Built from a kit
Intel 8080A (I think the CPU clock was driven by a hamster wheel)
S100 bus with 5 slots
2K static RAM on the Motherboard
2K (I think) SOLUS EEPROM boot loader
2 (count them 2) 8K static memory add-in cards
Processor Technology BASIC loaded from cassette tape (it was pretty good too)
I also purchased the then new Microsoft BASIC on tape (with code actually written by Bill)
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My 2nd computer
Apple ][+, serial number 289
MOS 6502 running a 1MHz (well 2 actually but half of the CPU cycles went to refresh the dynamic RAM to give 1MHz effective clock rate)
64K RAM
1 floppy disk
color display
Apple BASIC
. Finally got tired of her whining so after noticing the front panels on both machines were identical, I switched the front panels and told her she now had the P3. She was happy for several years, never noticing the 'Pentium II 450 MHz" bootup screen 
It came with 2MB of simm mem and I went out and paid £100 for another 2MB so I could play Doom in a really small window lol! Thats not the worst of it! I sold my Motorbike to buy a 486 cpu and board (Intel DX2/66) when I think back its really bad but in real terms I am still doing it now 
my friends who were playing warcraft (or warcraft 2 :?: dunno on newer machines 
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