These kids these days just dunno how good they have it...

i had used vic 20, c 64 and atari 400 before that friends of me had. my first own computer was a C 128 with 1571 Floppy and 1084 color monitor. insanely expensive as far as i remember

I loved the psychedelic colours/bars that used to flash on the screen as a game loaded on the c64.
10 print "game loading wait 30 mins"
20 print "the fucking game failed to load - load error my arrrrrrrrrrrrse"; <-- damn important semicolon ;)
30 goto 20

comodore 64... then my stylish gaming stove.. I mean Atari ... and then a few years later a blazing fast 32 mb RAM 520mb of HDD featuring state of the art productivity system win 95

My first PC was a Compaq Presario 4880 with a 17" CRT. Paid around $2,200 at Best Buy :Oh crap

First computer was a BBC Model B (6502, 32k RAM, floppy disc)
http://thsrv.com/hl/http://regmedia....3/20/bbc_1.jpg
My school ran a network of these and I ended up inheriting about 5 of them when they were replaced with PCs. My wife made me throw them out a few years ago, wasn't even allowed to sell them on ebay!!!!

First PC based computer was a 286-10 with 1MB RAM and a 40MB Seagate HD. Playa.

http://geekgiftsgalore.com/pics/Batt...alactica_1.jpgMy first pc was a techtronics desk top, we used in on my submarine from 1978, it was tape driven, had green vector graphics and used machine code, here's a pic from the first battle star gallactica, they used the same thing

Hal 9000

http://everystockphoto.s3.amazonaws....e_292186_l.jpg

aaah, reminds me of VAX clusters :thumbsup

That was mine too. It was an awesome computer in its time. :thumbsup

fiddie 1mb ram puters

Mine was a 386

did I say ram, I meant HD :P

ZX81 - returned it the next day

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/byte-ts1000.jpg

The Timex Sinclair.

Black and white display that you watched on your TV. Bad (bubble button) keyboard. Very small. Had the old line number coding. Backed up on to cassette tape.

Next came the TI-99 (shown in an earlier post in this thread). It didn't last long either. Commodore 64 and then from there I lose track of what came next. BIG PC's boxes though.

Commodore 128

commodore 64

I had a 5MB (five megabytes) full height hard drive until recently... retail price when new would have been thousands of dollars. Can you imagine paying $1m per gig? :1orglaugh

486
50mhz
310mb Hdd
8 mb RAM
windows 3.1
surfing on 14,400

That was early '95 I was 12 years old :)

LOL I can't believe others hae posted similar photos but here's my timeline....

TRS 80 Color Computer II
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Computer_1.jpg

APPLE IIE
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Apple_iieb.jpg

Commodore 64
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ommodore64.jpg

And from there I can't find any real pics or models, but one of the first Acer models, then some Compaq sit down tower, then I started building my own boxes, so now I have custom boxes for my rendering.

-Loki-

My first one is not even close to the ones shown, but I had a Pentium 75 with 8mb of ram, 800mb hard drive, windows 3.11 etc..

I never had a computer before that.

I can't remember

Pentium 166 mmx, ram 16 maybe 32

This one

http://www.idg.no/multimedia/archive...PS1_20280a.jpg

I had so much fun playing games on that thing.. good times. :)