My first computer I bought 4 years ago and it's a Pentium 3 733 MHz with 128 MBs RAM, a CD-RW drive and DVD-ROM drive built in, and I've since added to it making it 384 MBs RAM, and a Sound Blaster Live! card. I pulled out the POS "modem sound card". It has the HD in it that it came with. A 43 GB HD. 43 GBs is odd but the only time it ever says anything but 43 GBs is when it has a Fat32 File System. Then it says 42.9. Anwyay that was my first machine. It's running right now playing Lords of Acid and the rest of my play list (Mostly Punk Rock). Yea, I know, I'm young. On Monday 06 September 2004 10:57, Robert A. Rawlinson wrote:
You must have had double density. My first was one I built. It had 8008 cpu with 2k memory, no floppy or hd just a cassett rrecorder. It had no e prom to start it up so that involved setting 16 address switches and 8 data switches then pressing data enter switch. It took 15 min to load a program that way that would allow me to us the keyboard. Then another 15 min to key in a program in hex that told it how to read the cassett program. A system crash meant you had to go back and do it all over again. The time was 1974. I remember the $5000 5 meg HD which I think was the first out. I remember thinking that no one could ever use that much storage. Boy have things changed. Bob
Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 22:26, James Knott wrote: Hummmmm i see you started with one of the BIG drives at 30Mb My first Hdd was a huge great 10Mb 5.25" full height thing that needed an
Lucky you - mine had two 160k floppy drives :-) But then I was far behind my friends on computers - only caught up last year when I bought my Athlon. And now I'm behind again.....