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My very first PC (1995-1996):

White midi tower with:

- CPU: Cyrix 486DX5-133
- RAM: 16 MB EDO
- GPU: S3 Trio 64v+
- HDD: 850 MB HDD (slow)
-I/O: Mitsumi CDRom 1x + 3,5" Floppy
- SND: Soundblaster with Gameport
- DSP: 14" CRT (800x600)
- OS: DOS 6.2 + Norton Commander

Played gems like Heretic, Doom2, Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 and EF2000 on that machine.

Mid 1997, I got a spare memory stick from my brother to upgrade to 32MB so that I could install Windows 95 on it 😆

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About 6000 somewhat parallel calculations a second. Not bad, to be honest! #colossus #FirstComputer

Back at the beginning…
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@adafruit
I should've posted this on your TRS-80 day.

My (family's) first computer was a TRS80-compatible Dick Smith System 80.
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_s80.htm

For a printer, we had an actual mechanical teletype with an interface box driven by the audio output.

I upgraded the RAM from 16kiB to 48kiB by stacking more chips on top of the existing ones, with IIRC chip select pins bent up and connected to some extra logic.

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What was your #FirstComputer?

Mine was midi tower with a Cyrix Cx486DX4 (75Mhz), 8MB of memory, an S3 Trio 64v+ graphics card and a whopping 850MB hard drive. Display was a 14“ CRT that could only output up to 800x600 pixels. The operating system on it was Dos 6.x and I was a regular Norton Commander user.

Later that computer got upgraded by my brother to a Pentium MMX 166Mhz with 16MB ram and a 2,x GB hard drive with Windows 95, before I discovered Linux on a CDRom in a magazine and broke everything while trying to install it but not understanding the concept of partitions😅

Later that computer was running on dual boot with #Suse #linux and Windows 95 and I leaned C programming on the machine.

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In the mid 1980s in my early teen years, I had an Epson HX-20 notebooks for a few months. I remember that I created wild iterated colour math plots with the in-built printer using experimental combinations of trigonometric functions in simple BASIC programs.
Had access to Apple computers before that and bought an Atari computer later.
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@EVduckR @SinclairSpeccy

I had a nifty C64 word processing program from Compute magazine and some other productivity shareware (like Lucid).

I used the 64 at home until I eventually got a PC.

I did do a video project on a college Toaster once.

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Still got my first classic pong system (Conic TVG-209) from 1977

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How many bits did your #firstcomputer had ?

Post a reply if you started with one of those odd-ball #DEC #PDP machines 😉

I'm remembering my #firstcomputer
486DX 33MHz
RAM 8MiB
HDD 235MiB
CDROM + 3.5" floppy drive
Graphics Cirrus Logic 256 colors
15" monitor
Windows 95
#nostalgia