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In reply to the discussion: Your first computer specs (you owned not used) [View all]DavidDvorkin
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My first PC was a Packard Bell 486SX 25Mhz. I think it had 4MB of RAM, 200MB HDD.
DisgustipatedinCA
Apr 2014
#7
lol. I had a slide rule, used it in physics the year before we switched to the hp calculator
Liberal_in_LA
Apr 2014
#15
My first one too. Couldn't afford the tape "drive" however. The computer was nearly worthless
corkhead
Apr 2014
#137
Commodore 64, 64kb ram, tape drive, basic or machine, 300 baud modem. Later upgraded to 5.25 floppy
TheKentuckian
Apr 2014
#27
our first computer was a monster, it was that huge (with no operating system)
politicman
Apr 2014
#33
1.023 MHz, 64 KB RAM, 20 KB ROM. And two floppy drives, which were an expensive external.
LeftyMom
Apr 2014
#35
heh... If it's anything made in the time frame of that, I doubt it's a 1.2GB HD in it...
penultimate
Apr 2014
#109
Back in the early 90's we're mostly looking at drives below 1GB for regular folk
penultimate
Apr 2014
#121
Don't mean to brag, but I still have my TI-59, I also had the thermal print cradle for it.
corkhead
Apr 2014
#140
I still have and use the first PC I ever bought, it is one of the most powerful PC's that will ever
Exposethefrauds
Apr 2014
#123
Not photoshop and it actually appeared in several episodes sometimes in multiple scenes
Major Nikon
Apr 2014
#147
Atari 400 -> Atari 800 -> Atari XE -> Commodore 128D -> NEC 486DX-33 laptop -> then Home built units
krawhitham
Apr 2014
#179
Cutting edge at the time, 486-33 Mhz, 256MB Drive, 8 MB RAM, 21" NEC monitor, $10,000.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2014
#198