Mine was a Radio Shack - Tandy Sensation2:
486 MOBO
4-Megs of memory
200MB hard drive
Windows 3.0
Built-n Stereo Speakers (wow!)
Floppy Drive
A CDROM 2x (worth $250.00 at the time)
33mHz CPU Intel processor
2400 modem
This was the best Store-Bought PC at the time! Took a few minutes just to boot up.
2007-02-14 03:34:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
WHAT SPECS? LOL!
My first computer, the MITS Altair 8800, was not THE first true personal computer - THAT was, actually the Kenbak-1! But, it was THE computer that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to write the computer program BASIC and founded the company Micro-soft or as we now know it - Microsoft!
CPU = Intel 8080a
Clock Speed = 2 MHz
Bus = S-100
RAM = 64K
ROM = Intel 2 - 1702 EPROMs at 256 Bytes each for various bootstrap loaders.
OS Options = MITS DOS, Altair Disk BASIC
Storage = Paper tape and cassette tape
Expansion = 8 motherboards
I/O = Parallel & Serial
Other = Interrupt controller, PROM programmer, PROM board
I paid close to $400 1976 REAL BUCKS for it, built it from a kit, tweaked it to my hearts content and it STILL works!.
2007-02-14 06:01:31 · answer #1 · answered by midnightlydy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Radio Shack TRS-80
seemingly 1k memory, give or take... probably less.
on-board keyboard.
plugged into my TV
couldn't buy the tape drive for it, since it was out of stock.
My first *real* computer was a Leading Edge 8088
256k memory (later upgraded to 512k)
didn't come with a hard drive (much later upgraded to 10 megs)
didn't come with a modem (later upgraded to 2400 baud)
CGA monitor (later upgraded to VGA... and eventually blew up, leaving me with, strangely, a monochrome SVGA [unsure how I was able to get better resolution with the resultant cloud of blue smoke])
didn't come with a sound card (much later upgraded to Sound Blaster 16)
It actually came with a mouse, not like I ever used it for anything.
Dos 3.0 (eventually upgraded to Dos 6.2)
PC speaker
two 5.25 floppy drives
4/8 Mhz
2007-02-14 04:23:33 · answer #2 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a TI-99-4a with a cassette deck for saving typeed in programs. You could buy programs on cartridges. It used a TV for video and later actually had an external hard drive.
2007-02-14 03:40:34 · answer #3 · answered by podunksunshine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It appears you've just got out of a time machine... I'm sure you have your reasons for wasting time/money in such ancient equipment. Please tell me you aren't spending over $100 for such a beast. I'm sure you have your reasons for staying with 32bit... they aren't valid or sane... but I'm sure you won't give it up until someone pulls it from your cold dead fingers. Go with any brand new cheap machine (even $300) and buy a USB floppy drive. It'll run circles around whatever you're building.
2016-05-23 22:17:35 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Packard Bell Legend 300
386 CPU
<1MB RAM
42MB HDD
DOS 5.0 (and Windows 3.1 for a short while)
2007-02-14 03:39:18 · answer #5 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. A Timex-Sinclair 1000 with a Z80 processor and 2K (yes, 2K) onboard RAM. Spent a weeks pay to buy the 16K external RAM.
2007-02-14 03:43:04 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Commode 64.
64KB of memory (yes KB ... not MB).
OS was Commodore BASIC 2.0
1.02 MHz processor
regards,
Philip T
2007-02-14 03:46:53 · answer #7 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a macintosh 1345
powerpc processor
10megs of ram
300megs of hd space
floppy drive
2400 modem
a built in spkr
mac os
2007-02-14 05:38:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋