All About Old Computers

[whitetiger]

First one was a Commodore 128.

The next was an 386 DX 40 (AMD CPU) 8 MB RAM, 105 MB HD, DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1.

 

Spend hours to maximise available Memory to get those games running...

 

whitetiger

[boomouse]

My first computer was an Apple II clone called the Starapple. Composite amber display off an 80-column card, multi I/O card with parallel and serial port, dual external single-sided drives, 16 kb of ram on board, CP/M card with 48 kb of ram, Okidata 100 printer. Followed by:

 

IBM PC-XT with the 10MB hard disk, 5.25 double sided drive, hercules graphics card driving a green IBM monitor, Intel 8088 processor running at 4.75 MHz, 101-key Centronics keyboard, MS-DOS 2.11, Epson LX-80 printer with the color ribbon. And then naging:

 

Apple Mac Plus, 800 kb internal 3.5-inch floppy, 800 kb external floppy, Motorola 68000 running at 8 MHz, 1 MB ram, 9-inch white monitor, later added an external 20 mb SCSI hard disk drive, Apple Imagewriter II printer with sheet feeder, 4-color ribbon, Mac os 4.1, naging:

 

Apple Macintosh II, 800 kb internal 3.5, 40 MB internal SCSI drive, 16 Mhz Motorola 68020, Motorola 68881 math processor, 4 MB of RAM, 256-color Apple video card, 13-inch Apple trinitron monitor, Apple Laserwriter 2

 

The rest are forgettable computers.

Edited May 21, 2007 by boomouse

[fir3st0rm]

My first PC was a 286 with 40mb hard drive and a CGA graphics card, it had a 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drive, it was a real high end PC during it's time, most PC's were still PC XT back then with the green, orange or monochrome monitors.

[JohnPetrucci]

Nakakatuwa pag naalala ko yung boot by DOS pa.. ahehehe... tapos pinapagawa kami ng batch files... hay, those were the days. Saan kaya ako makakuha ng pacman na pang pre-Pentium classic....

[hero168]

8086 computers then nagkaroon ng TURBO button to make it faster. 1mb hard disks very expensive and VGA monitor na mahal then...

5.25 diskettes

[mckyxxx]

I remember being one of the coolest kids in my batch, because we had 2 PCs at home - a 386DX/33 and a 386SX/25. And not only that -- inupgrade namin yung 386/25 ko para maging MPC - multimedia PC! With a blazing fast 1x (150Kb/s) cd-drive and a Sound Blaster Pro.

 

Ah the good old days of DOS 3.3, 5, and 6.22.

 

But I also used to have an Apple ata... basta, the command for "dir" was CATALOG, and "park" was PR#6. Old school talaga.

[johnlove]

I started with an Apple II+ clone 48kb ram on board with 16kb memory card to boost the memory to 64kb. I remembered adding a 128kb memory card which I used as a ram disk.

Later I switched to an 8088 IBM clone, & move on to a 386 computer. Diba ang address ng Maalikaya is 386 Quezon Ave?

[chapsuey01002]

Best praktis pa rin magsimula ka sa umpisa. Praktis in Windows NT

[mckyxxx]

Best praktis pa rin magsimula ka sa umpisa. Praktis in Windows NT

 

AKA Windows 3.5? Try Windows for Workgroups (3.11); yun yung orig

[james_bandido]

my very 1st computer was a TRS-80 color computer ...

wala pa floppy drive nun ...

you save and retrieve data to a standard cassette recorder ...

the monitor itself was your tv set and at channel 3 ...

gardemit, ang tanda ko na pala ... hahahaha ...

 

Radio Shacks TRS-80 Color Computer

 

Edited May 31, 2007 by james_bandido

[wolflove_bigdawg]

I remember being one of the coolest kids in my batch, because we had 2 PCs at home - a 386DX/33 and a 386SX/25. And not only that -- inupgrade namin yung 386/25 ko para maging MPC - multimedia PC! With a blazing fast 1x (150Kb/s) cd-drive and a Sound Blaster Pro.

 

Ah the good old days of DOS 3.3, 5, and 6.22.

 

But I also used to have an Apple ata... basta, the command for "dir" was CATALOG, and "park" was PR#6. Old school talaga.

 

 

dati , pina park pa ang hard disk ano? parang kotse hehehe

[wolflove_bigdawg]

If you know Greenhills Brochiere, you must be in the late 30's or early 40's (like me hehehe). I remember ogling at the Apple II clones there and renting Atari cartridges.james bandido, gara ng trs mo. astig!

[tom_babauta]

andito pa commodore 64 ko

 

may nag collect ba ng old computers?

[juancarlos_enriquez]

Unang gamit ko dati 386, hehe tapos unang upgrade ko nag pentium 133 ako, una ko sa hs batch ko na nagkapentium, hehe tapos Encarta 97 pa nabili ko for that system. micron millenia. ngayon wala nang micron.

[mamangkantutero]

I remember getting hooked to an Apple II in which most of the programs were running under the ROM version of BASIC. Sobrang na-excite ako noon kasi nalilibang ako sa paggamit ng computer, pero at the same time natutuwa ako na ganon pala kasarap mag-try gumawa ng sarili kong mga programs. Since then, naging tuloy-tuloy na ang pagkahilig ko sa mga computers. Naaalala ko pa noong high school ako...ako lang ang marunong gumamit ng DOS (I still do ), samantalang hirap na hirap ang mga classmates ko noon sa mandatory DOS lessons namin (they got spoiled with Windows 3.11 at the time)

 

By the way, six years old ako noon nang una akong mangalikot ng Apple II Basic using the old manuals...you can only imagine how old I am right now