What PC are you embarrassed to admit you had?

[mouse]

I had a HP 333 MHZ back in 1995 and i thought i was the shit! :lmao
What PC are you embarrassed to admit you had?




http://images.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/normal/047/product-5365047.jpg

[wrench]

:lmao



http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200610/gateway_486_66.jpg

[Re-Animator]

LISA :lmao

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/lisa1.jpg

[kukjavel]

TRS-80 . . . They were giving them away at my elementary school when they got a whole new computer lab. I think my parents actually still have it somewhere in their garage.

http://www.pc-history.org/TRS80mod3.gif

[Mister Sinister]

Anything that ever ran Windows ME

[Slomo]

WTF?

Those are High tech!

My first PC was a Sinclair ZX81 with 1kB of RAM! It's components came in a bag, since you had to solder it together yourself! :lol

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Sinclair_ZX81.jpg/677px-Sinclair_ZX81.jpg

[Slomo]

My second PC was a C64 (I didn't like the Sinclair Spectrum). It was nice since you could buy an optional floppy disk drive an actually store what you wrote. I knew my C64 so well, I was soldering wires on the motherboard to connect peripheral devices I made myself (EPROM programer). I made some serious money programming EPROMs with that computer :D

http://www.vidgame.net/COMMODOR/Commodore/Commodore_64/c64_sys2.jpg


P.S. And I'm not embarrassed about those since they were extremely cool for those times :tu

[Pistons < Spurs]

The good ol' Timex Sinclair 1000 was my first computer as a kid. We had the 16k ram expansion and the cassette recorder thing that let us play great games like Mothership!!!

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/screenshots/m/Mothership.screen.gif

[PixelPusher]

Packard-Bell Legend, 66mhz, 16megs of Ram, 1 Gb HD. I'll never forget my dad telling there was no way anyone could fill up a 1gb hard drive.

http://www.tribalsmile.com/pbupgrade/before/Legend-100CD.jpg

[CubanMustGo]

http://i.zdnet.com/gallery/16272.jpg

My first PC. 4K of memory and that wonderful cassette drive which loaded programs about one time in 3. Eventually I upgraded to the Level 2 BASIC, but I couldn't afford to get the 16KB upgrade!

My first published article should have been a little program I wrote and which was accepted by Creative Computing. Somehow it never got published and I never got a check.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Radio_Shack_TRS-80_Model_100.jpg/800px-Radio_Shack_TRS-80_Model_100.jpg

And my first laptop. I went to the big computer show in Las Vegas the year I got this and irritated nearly everyone by taking notes on it.

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/atari400open.jpg

The second-worst keyboard in the history of mankind. But it was a pretty cool game machine for its time.

http://oldcomputers.net/pics/ibm-pcjr-1.jpg

The WORST keyboard in the history of mankind. I charged this on a Diners Club card and got in a heap of trouble when the $1K+ bill came due the next month. The only time I have ever had a credit card problem, courtesy of IBM and my own stupidity. The machine was a piece of crap and IBM took it off the market pretty rapidly.

[Chief]

some of you describing your old POS's really have me laughing . to continue the laugh

http://ergonomenon.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/commodore64.JPG

a commodore, man i didn't know shit about computers, just that i HAD to have one. we overpayed for it,and u couldn't even keep the monitor on,u had to stick a piece of paper between the on button so it stay's on.

i think it blew up or something

[Don Quixote]

Those PCs are funny ... but nothing to be embarrassed about. Some of those things are true antiques!

I had a TRS-80 from 1986 to about 1990. But mine didn't have a monitor ... it plugged into the TV like a video-game console.

I AM embarassed about having a Packard-Bell, however. Not only were those things total dog-squeeze, their customer service sucked.

[Slydragon]

http://i1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/279/947/4/1.jpg

WebTV was my first window to the net and I thought I was so damn cool, Everyone stuck on a desk and I am on my sofa I even had the wireless keyboard, then the new WebTV plus came out and mine was renamed WebTV Classic WTF. So me and a friend were saving to buy the Plus and he ended up getting a real PC instead. I go over to check it it out and was like WTF my WebTV don't play videos or music. It only did Midi songs and mpeg 1 videos.

[PixelPusher]

I AM embarassed about having a Packard-Bell, however. Not only were those things total dog-squeeze, their customer service sucked.

Packard-Bell took the top spot in PC World's 10 Worst PCs of All Time. (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129857-page,11-c,desktoppcs/article.html)


Now I know why my Packard-Bell was named "Legend".

[Don Quixote]

I was young. And foolish.

I didn't know any better.

[CrazyOne]

I got a grant from my church while in seminary in 1986, got the brand spanking new Tandy 1000A with two 5 1/4 floppy drives (no hard drive). It had a 16 color monitor.

I had it until about 1992 when somebody broke into the church office and stole it.

Oh, and here's a picture of what they looked like...
Tandy 1000 (http://www.8bit-micro.com/images/tandy1000.gif)

[CubanMustGo]

Those PCs are funny ... but nothing to be embarrassed about. Some of those things are true antiques!

I had a TRS-80 from 1986 to about 1990. But mine didn't have a monitor ... it plugged into the TV like a video-game console.

Was it a CoCo?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/TRS-80_Color_Computer_3.jpg/800px-TRS-80_Color_Computer_3.jpg

[Cry Havoc]

IBM Aptiva

233 Mhz of K5 processing power with "3dNow!" technology.
32 megs of ram
3.2 gigs of hard drive.

But the kicker was the 2 mb video card that was soldered to the mother board with NO jumper switch to disable it. Therefore, the system could not run anything above a Voodoo 2 vid card, because the V2 was an "accelerator", not a full-blown graphics card.

I wanted to chuck the thing.

[baseline bum]

Packard Bell 66 MHz way back in the day. I've built all my systems since.

[N.Y. Johnny]

Easily it was the Packard Bell.

but its funny someone actually posted a WEBTV on here as thats what I first used to surf the web on. I discovered pr0n on that and took it to the next level with the said Packard Bell because alot of the sites weren't compatible with WEBTV.

[Brutalis]

Um my first computer was an emachine. I don't remember the specs but the year was 1998.

[Don Quixote]

Was it a CoCo?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/TRS-80_Color_Computer_3.jpg/800px-TRS-80_Color_Computer_3.jpg

Yes, that was it. Mine was yellow.

I learned to write in BASIC on it. Couldn't really do anything cool, though.

[CuckingFunt]

Was it a CoCo?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/TRS-80_Color_Computer_3.jpg/800px-TRS-80_Color_Computer_3.jpg

That's what I had in my bedroom when I was in Middle/High School. It came with a manual that had a few basic programs -- including one that made a Jack-O-Lantern on the screen -- each of which I did maybe twice the whole time I had it. I mostly used it to play Super Pitfall, Shanghai (a crappy, yet addictive, mahjong game), a really bad version of Tetris, and... Springster (a Q-Bert knockoff -- how the fuck do I remember this shit?).

[resistanze]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Radio_Shack_TRS-80_Model_100.jpg/800px-Radio_Shack_TRS-80_Model_100.jpg

And my first laptop. I went to the big computer show in Las Vegas the year I got this and irritated nearly everyone by taking notes on it.
LOL @ the date on the left corner of the screen. Classic.

[mouse]

TRS-80 . . . They were giving them away at my elementary school when they got a whole new computer lab. I think my parents actually still have it somewhere in their garage.

http://www.pc-history.org/TRS80mod3.gif

Would you sell it to me?

[mouse]

Packard Bell 66 MHz way back in the day. I've built all my systems since.


Dude you must be a GOD in the geek community. It wasn't until 1999 when I changed out my first HD. The assholes at help me computers on Austin HWY told me I owed them 108.00 dollars for two hours worth of work as they think i may have a virus! Good thing I didn't wait another hour to call them.

After i got ass raped by them I started to break down the PC at home.

hey can i ask you a question? Did you ever have a PC that did not come with a HD like crazyone?

[baseline bum]

Dude you must be a GOD in the geek community. It wasn't until 1999 when I changed out my first HD. The assholes at help me computers on Austin HWY told me I owed them 108.00 dollars for two hours worth of work as they think i may have a virus! Good thing I didn't wait another hour to call them.

After i got ass raped by them I started to break down the PC at home.

hey can i ask you a question? Did you ever have a PC that did not come with a HD like crazyone?

Yeah... I had a Zenith with dual 5 1/4" floppy drives when I was really young. :lol

It was really convenient; you could just leave DOS in the A: drive and then play Shinobi from the B:

My monitor was only two colors though, so CrazyOne had me beat.

[mouse]

Yeah... I had a 5 1/4" floppy when I was really young. :lol


I wish I had that, I would still be married! :smokin

[velik_m]

My second PC was a C64 (I didn't like the Sinclair Spectrum).

Infidel! All shall bow before the mighty rubber keyboard!

I <3 rainbow.

[leemajors]

I got a grant from my church while in seminary in 1986, got the brand spanking new Tandy 1000A with two 5 1/4 floppy drives (no hard drive). It had a 16 color monitor.

I had it until about 1992 when somebody broke into the church office and stole it.

Oh, and here's a picture of what they looked like...
Tandy 1000 (http://www.8bit-micro.com/images/tandy1000.gif)

my parents bought that one. we kept it until 93 or 94. my first computer that was mine was a compaq presario laptop from 95. a 333MHz dell followed in 97, and put Voodoo II SLI in it. Quakeworld and Quake 2 ran like a dream! After that they have all been built at home.