Your first ever computer?

Trollheart · 02-15-2015, 05:25 AM

Do you remember how you started out? Contrary to what people might think about my age, I did not start with a stone Dell with counting balls and elastic, though it wasn't too far from that!

Amstrad PC, don't remember the RAM but it wasn't much and no hard drive. CGA (Colour Graphics Array) monitor --- FOUR whole colours! --- and a 5.25 (Five and a quarter) inch floppy drive. You could play a few games on it and use it for word processing, that was about it. I used to dream about buying an EGA (Enhanced Graphic Array) card to see those other 12 colours!

After that I got an IBM 286Mhz with 10 Meg hard disk (not gig, meg) and I think 512 K memory. It was big and clunky and if it fell on you it would seriously injure you. It was all built into one, like some bloody huge XT from the 70s. It had a VGA screen so I thought I had arrived. Man what a pile of **** it was, and expensive! Something like 2000 Irish Pounds, which would be about 1700 Euro.

Do you remember your first rig?

02-15-2015, 05:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,971	Your first ever computer? Do you remember how you started out? Contrary to what people might think about my age, I did not start with a stone Dell with counting balls and elastic, though it wasn't too far from that! Amstrad PC, don't remember the RAM but it wasn't much and no hard drive. CGA (Colour Graphics Array) monitor --- FOUR whole colours! --- and a 5.25 (Five and a quarter) inch floppy drive. You could play a few games on it and use it for word processing, that was about it. I used to dream about buying an EGA (Enhanced Graphic Array) card to see those other 12 colours! After that I got an IBM 286Mhz with 10 Meg hard disk (not gig, meg) and I think 512 K memory. It was big and clunky and if it fell on you it would seriously injure you. It was all built into one, like some bloody huge XT from the 70s. It had a VGA screen so I thought I had arrived. Man what a pile of **** it was, and expensive! Something like 2000 Irish Pounds, which would be about 1700 Euro. Do you remember your first rig? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 02-15-2015 at 05:35 AM.