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Just fun to read the specs.......

I love the "talk to one of our technical specialists within five minutes or less." Oh, the good old days ...

My first computer was a Mac II CI, it had 8 megs of RAM and a 105 hard drive. With a 14" monitor it cost me $5,000. About four years later I offered it to my son when he went off to college. He declined saying it was the best boat anchor money could buy!

Not too long ago a group of us were laughing about those early days when one of the guys said he had worked for NASA and was on the Apollo technical team. He said my old off the shelf "boat anchor" Mac II, 8-105, could have handled the Apollo moon landing as a no brainer...
He also mentioned that today, if you are looking for old computer parts especially chips from those early models, and are on Ebay, You are bidding against NASA. NASA searches out the older chips because they can be "space hardened" and the newer ones cannot.

Cheers, Ron

Hehe my first Computer was a Sinclair ZX 81 Spectrum.... 25 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum


And of course after that MSX-1 MSX-2

I was selling computers back when these machines were state of the art, I remember when the first Pentium computer hit the market and our store was the first to get one. They only came in one configuration a 60 Mhz Pentium processor with 16 megs of ram. It was a beast and could run any program twice as fast as the old 486 machines, but it pumped out heat like you wouldn’t believe and the fans on it were so loud it sounded like a jet engine. It also came with Windows 3.1, a VGA monitor 15" and was only $5,000.

My first computer was 486DX-33.

When I bought it, they say that it's a Intel 80486chip.

But it was not Intel, but AMD.

I was cheated.

At that time, AMD and Cyrix chip was more cheaper than Intel.

All I know is that the BASIC language rules. lol......

HURRAYYY - the problem of long-rendering-time has finally been solved
Thank You ivox3!!!
Must have on of those DELL "monsters" - they're Maxwell-Certified

don't remember if it was on an Oric Atmos, or on that ZX-81, but the only time i wrote a 100 lines Basic program on it, it could'nt run it, no memory enough!!

I used to have the 33mhz 486... that thing was ultra fast specially after I upgrade the ram from 4 to 8 and later to 12MB

I was able to run windows 3.1, wich was a huge improvement over my black and white 286

sandykoufax wrote:My first computer was 486DX-33.

When I bought it, they say that it's a Intel 80486chip.

But it was not Intel, but AMD.

I was cheated.

At that time, AMD and Cyrix chip was more cheaper than Intel.

they did that to me to woth the video card... instead of being a SVGA it was VGA with just 256 colors . They fix it once we told them though !!