Old Sweaty Balls Contest

[Clamwacker]

This is the opposite of the big dick contest thread. Instead of your current kick-ass rig post what your first PC was.

Mine was a TRS-80. No hard drive. 5 1/4 floppy drive. 128k RAM. I remember my dad upgrading it to 512k RAM at some point, and it was a card larger then a GTX 580 it seemed. I remember being so happy for the extra memory because now I could rent Bad Dudes and not spend a ton of quarters.

My second was a Packard Bell 486SX 25MHz, 1 Mb RAM, don't remember the hard drive size probably around 100Mb, ran DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1, a 1200 baud modem. By the time I was done it had a 486DX 66MHz with a Pentium overdrive processor on top of it, 8 Mb RAM, 1.2 Gb HD, 56k modem.

[Prof]

To copy from Clam, this was my first!

Packard Bell 486SX 75MHz, 750kb RAM, 75Mb HD, ran DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1, a 1200 baud modem. I remembered the specs. =p

[Clyric85]

When I was 9 I got my first com. With intel 166mhz the other spec i forgot.. It was year 1994 . Had a floppy disk and run a dial up external modem connected to my phone. The com cost 3 k back then during the era where hp is bigger than ur current graphic card

[Darinford]

I don't know the specs from my first computer. My parents got it when I was about high enough to look over the top of a chair. It had green and black screen a 4mb hard disk 5 1/2 floppy drive, cost about $3,000, made by Zenon or zenoth or something. The system clock stopped working in 1988.

The first computer I used to any real extent was a 66mhz 486 dx2 with 8mb ram and 256MB SCSI hard disk. Played Tie Fighter, Doom, Civ2, and Descent.

[Pwntiff]

I have to remember. The first rig I built had an ALR chasis. 60mhz Pentium processor. I think I had 96mb of RAM and that was ridiculous expensive. I had a Matrox 8 or 16mb video card. I had a U.S. Robotics 14.4 modem so I could play Legend of the Red Dragon on the BBS. I still have a list of BBS dial in numbers. Hehe. My memory from 94 is a little hazy.

The first PC I used was a family owned Apple IIc. Oregon trail baby.

[Clamwacker]

Pwntiff wrote:

I have to remember. The first rig I built had an ALR chasis. 60mhz Pentium processor. I think I had 96mb of RAM and that was ridiculous expensive. I had a Matrox 8 or 16mb video card. I had a U.S. Robotics 14.4 modem so I could play Legend of the Red Dragon on the BBS. I still have a list of BBS dial in numbers. Hehe. My memory from 94 is a little hazy. The first PC I used was a family owned Apple IIc. Oregon trail baby.

Hehe I used to run a BBS back in the day. And the guy who wrote LORD was from around here, met him a few times.

Anyone remember using a Voodoo pass-thru video card? It was a second card that you installed and looped your video cable through it and then to your monitor. Those were so freaking awesome back in the day.