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Intel Pentium 3 at 600Mhz with Windows 2000, 20GB disk.
Digicomp, circa 1963
I think it's still owned by the same company.
I remember buying an add-on card for mine that I think provided an additional 128KB. It was a card in a slot and was not like getting an additional 128KB of additional main system RAM...it was RAM but your app had to know how to use it.
Actually, I don't think they really have a realistic target market. Check out what old timers think and you'll find that they collect the original (if they don't already have one) and are certainly not going to pay good money for a substitute.
It used bank-switched RAM. The software would write (or read) a memory mapped location that indicated which 16 kbyte bank of extended (or was it "expanded"?) memory would overlap the top 16k of addressable memory from 48k to 64k. You could only read/write one 16 kbyte bank at any given time. Yuck!
How do I remember? Because I wrote software, mostly in 6502 assembly, that utilized those Apple II extended/expanded memory cards. In those days, we penny-pinched every byte of memory in our code, too.
I was so looking forward to the next project where I would get to write 8086 assembly code, until I found out that the 8086 architecture used that messy segment/offset addressing. Double yuck!
Mine is a Intel 486DX4-100 with 8M ram and 540M harddisk, with CD-ROM and soundblaster card, and a Trident 9440 video card. I cost more than $2500 for it, damn shit.
My first was a Commodore VIC 20.
It was replaced by a Commodore 64, which was later replaced by an Amstrad PCW8256 CP/M computer. After that, it was DOS and Windows PCs.
Mine was also a Commodore 64 - trying to load games using a datasette made me the patient but slightly disturbed individual that I am
My first ever was a sinclair spectrum zx rubber keys.
And also my favourite
Amiga 600
Also Atari 2600
Can't remember the specs on the first but it ran Windows 3.1 and died like 6 months later. The one I remember was a Sony Vaio celeron box with 512MB ram, running Windows XP in late 2001-ish and my mom got us a decent DSL connection to go with it.
some acorn thing. Awesome for playing lemmings
It was a Siemens Fujitsu. with 20GB HDD and 256 MB Ram.
Apple IIe that my dad, a school teacher, ganked from his school and gave to me.
I have a Atari 2600 I bought from a carboot market with a stack of cartridges. Real vintage stuff!
A hand me down Apple IIe - no harddrive only a 5 1/4 floppy. Upgraded from that to a 486 with math coprocessor. 20mb harddrive 16mb ram and a 9600 baud modem ... those were the days.
Atari 65XE -> Commodore 64 -> Amiga 500 -> my love... Amiga 1200 [32 MB Fast, Blizzard PPC, BVision, Zorro IV slots, network, USB, etc. (still alive and I'm working on Amiga OS 4.1 sometimes) -> "486" Compaq with DOS + Win95.
20mb hard disk was a very old one, may be came with a 286 processor? I can't image it will still work with a 16m ram, which is even more enough for win95.
A 66Mhz Pentium 1 with Windows, Probably 3.11 - Maybe 95. Can't remember exactly.
Later i got one with TURBO BUTTON, great for games.
Indeed, you could slow down or speed up at will (the former, mostly).
I had an XT with such a button, a second hand probably one of the last models, made in korea in 1990, 30 MB disk which was much-much faster than the old XT made in ireland in 1986 with 20 MB disk. The korean one also had dual display you could switch at the back from hercules BW to CGA.
Mine was already pretty old when i got it - Still totally worth it though.
I also had something with Windows ME - God, so much hate.
TI-99
or an IBM PC-XT, 1200 baud modem, 10GB HDD (*lol, 10MB HDD, rather), CGA graphics (card? or integrated? don't even remember), printer, .... the base 640KB RAM? I guess it was ..
first console Odyssey (ed:, sorry, that would be the Odyssey²)
ed2: oh, it had an ibm model m 1391401 kb too. i still use that, bought a bunch of them new off of ebay a decade ago or so, i've gone through 2 so far
ZX Spectrum 128k!
Clearly I'm not the oldest here.. 386 on dos/win 3.1
With a turbo button!
That's OK. We won't hold it against you.
Mine was celeron.. but don't exactly know how many RAM...