What was your first PC?

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Cremo wrote:

mine i think was an AST 486 i don't remember anything else about it really except it played prince of persia and a sweet tank game called tank wars which i can't find any info on

believe it or not, I still have a copy of tank wars hanging about somewhere, twas a sweet game alright.

SouperComputer

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

First proper pc was a 386 25MHz with Win3.11 ... although this was in 1996... a tad behind the times, but twas the best I could afford as a poor school kid.

LOL, I didnt get the IBM PS-2 until 2000!

basic was pretty cool on the XL. Used to wreck my head the way most people assumed they were just consoles though. Some studios are still using ST's!

Capt'n Midnight

First I got was a Zenith Laptop floppy used to pop up

ZENITH LAPTOP, CPU 80C88 8MHZ or 4.7MHZ, 640KB RAM, ONE 720KB FLOPPY and a hard drive, DISK DRIVES SERIAL 25PIN, PRINTER PORT, EXTERNAL CGA VIDEO PORT, LCD, CGA VIDEO, MODEM 2400 B, WEIGHT 12 LBS.


First PC I made for my self 386XS, 4 256KB simms , 40MB HDD that wouldn't boot unless you tapped it ( stiction ) and a mono monitor on a composite CGA output, was ages before I got a case for it..

gqma0

1st Logabax LX-500
2nd Thomson MO5.
3rd Thomson TO7
4th Amstrad CPC464 (40min to load a game from tape with the irritating noise)

and then the x86 series

djmarkus

I have an 8086, it was made my AMD under licence from intel, does anyone know if these are a collectors item yet?

Mac daddy

Sinclair ZX SPECTRUM
SPEED 3.5 MHz
RAM 16k
ROM 16k

it was the best thing since sliced pan when i got it might still have it up in the attic somewhere..