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Old Sep 23, 2011 | 12:55 PM
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I had a commodore 64, with a tape drive that played games. It was the biggest piece of junk ever, but it was fun for what I used it for. My first REAL computer was a Gateway, that came with a 15" monitor, 20 gig hard drive, and 512mb of ram. Back in the AOL dial up days.
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Old Sep 23, 2011 | 01:03 PM
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My first was a Pentium w/ 160mhz I believe? 500mb HDD 9" floppy discs.. awesome games, ran Windows 3.1 w/ AOL.. i do not miss dial up though.
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Old Sep 23, 2011 | 01:05 PM
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25 MHz i386 processor overclocked to 33 mhz. 20 Meg HD. 640kb ram
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Old Sep 23, 2011 | 01:06 PM
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Second one was a Dell Pentium 100mhz, 8mb RAM, 1gb HDD w/ 15" monitor running Windows 95. Was like $3200 lol.
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Old Sep 23, 2011 | 01:19 PM
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Mine was a Texas Instruments. Don't remember the model. My second was a C64. I'm old.
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Old Sep 23, 2011 | 01:20 PM
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It was my parent's - Macintosh (OS 8 maybe? Don't recall exactly anymore), I think an 8GB HD, probably 256 or 512mb of RAM. Did have a CD drive, as well as the 4.5" floppy. To think we used to store picture albums on floppy discs... LOL Now I couldn't even fit 1/4 of a picture on one!

We got into the computer field late.
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Old Sep 23, 2011 | 01:29 PM
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I remember sharing porn collections with friends. Hundreds of 3.5" floppies getting passed around lol. Splitting short video clips over multiple floppies and having to unzip and combine the parts to watch it lol.
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Old Sep 23, 2011 | 04:18 PM
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Tandy 1000 EX 7.16 MHz 8088
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Old Sep 23, 2011 | 07:35 PM
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I dont remember what our first computer was... i was very young when my parents bought it lol, but i do remember a chess game on the 6" Floppy where the pieces actually fought each other it was Amazing, anybody else here have it and remember the name??



the first Computer i bought was for college and im using it now actually, its a

Dell Studio XPS 16

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz

4GB RAM

500GB HDD

1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

hehe I LOVE IT XD
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Old Sep 24, 2011 | 06:28 AM
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Vic 20 Captain Kirk approved!!
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