Author Topic: Computer history (Read 11354 times)

rickbicker26 · « **on:** August 04, 2007, 09:20:55 PM »

Just wondering can anyone remember what sort of computers they have had through the years. mine are the following:
1. Atari 2600
2. Amstrad CPC 464 (with colour monitor)
3. Sega Master System
4. Gameboy
5. Original Nintendo
6. Sega Megadrive &Mega CD
7. Gameboy Colour
8. Sega Saturn
9. Playstation
10. Dreamcast
11. Gamecube
12. PC with following specs( P4, 2.2ghz, 1GB ram, 250GB hard drive, 128MB graphics Card, DVD-RW, 5.1 Sound Card, 15Inch tft monitor)
13 and the latest computer is a Celeron 3.06Ghz (thinking of getting a Intel 2.44ghz quad core processor), 1536MB ram (upgrading to 4GB in time), 80GB Hard drive (320GB hard drive upgrade wanted), 256MB graphics card, 800dpi-3200dpi laser mouse, 17 inch tft monitor, CD-RW and the bad windows Vista installed.......

some of you maybe thinking what the hell is a atari 2600...lol

chocl8 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 04, 2007, 09:45:53 PM »

*muses* "what the hell is an atari 2600?

rickbicker26 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 04, 2007, 09:52:50 PM »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600

that tells u all about it...lol very old computer, plus side was though you couldnt cheat on the games (well i dont think you could)

Kiola · « **Reply #3 on:** August 04, 2007, 10:36:40 PM »

atari was awsome XD

i had a sega megadrive once (loved Alex the Kid XD), nintendo 64, Xbox, Playstaion(big gray box version) and finally i now build my own PCs.

i got a
939 pin AMD athlon64bit 2800
gig of RAM
80gb system drive+200gbinternal storage +500gb storage drive (external)
and 256mb of awsome Graphical power..

(cant be bothered to go into more specifics..)

English-tailor · « **Reply #4 on:** August 04, 2007, 10:40:02 PM »

GEEK ALERT!!!!!!

Jason · « **Reply #5 on:** August 04, 2007, 10:45:59 PM »

Spectrum 128
8086 intel
amstrad pcw
Intel 286
Intel 386
Tiny cyrix 486
A couple of amds
Every pentium class in various speeds all home made
And I still have a lot of them in the loft and at work

Yes ET I'm a Geek and proud of it

sprog · « **Reply #6 on:** August 05, 2007, 12:24:51 AM »

Commodore Amiga 2000
Packard Bell with Windows 98 (and a whopping 16mb gfx card and 128mb ram)
Medion With Windows XP SP2 (1Gb Ram, 256Mb overclocked GFX card, Pentium 4 HT Processor)

And then inbetween that (if we are counting games consoles, which it appears we are)
PSX
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
PSP
X-box 360

Oh, and my nan still has an Atari 2600, Spider-Man is amazing on it

Bbmthbloke · « **Reply #7 on:** August 05, 2007, 07:05:12 AM »

At school in the 70's we had a terminal for an ICL 2904 b ut it was only connected about 2 weeks a term. For the modem you actually picked up a 'phone and put handset in a box and dialed the computer. But we would also type out punched tape --and post it to the computer ( honest im not making it up) However the computer was only a mile or so down the road so sometimes we wondered along to use it.

1st 1 i owned ( still in parents loft) was a dragon 32 ( early production model)

Sx Nutta · « **Reply #8 on:** August 05, 2007, 01:20:08 PM »

I loved my atari 2600, then had a amiga commodore 1200
sega megadrive
playstation
playstation 2
700mhz althlon, 128mb ram, windows 98 PC
Then my latest machine, a Dell Inspiron 6000, 1.6mhz Intel Centrino, 1.25GB ram, 80GB HDD + 320GB external HDD, DVD-RW, with Windows XP Bocking Edition!

:

Not Kidding, that is what mine says when you load it up!! Also the fact that it looks like Vista, nothing dodgy with my machine!! :

Q I want to have a good gander that the dragon 32!! lol

Kiola · « **Reply #9 on:** August 06, 2007, 10:17:02 AM »

oi .. you gotta give me that Boot Screen .. lol

and you soo cheated in buying a dell

.. we build our computers ..Lolz buying premade is for money wasters

K.

carlgreen · « **Reply #10 on:** August 06, 2007, 12:16:03 PM »

basically all games consoles except dreamcast since the mega drive then got my 2 sony edit suites and 1 apple g5 (the new BIG quad prossecor 1) and 2 weeks ago brought my ps3

Taunton · « **Reply #11 on:** August 06, 2007, 12:51:43 PM »

Quote from: Bbmthbloke on August 05, 2007, 07:05:12 AM

For the modem you actually picked up a 'phone and put handset in a box and dialed the computer.

I remember them

We also had zx81's at school. First I owned was a speccy 16, then bought them memory block that pushed on the back to take it up to 32k. Then when playing you nudged it and it all crashed

Remember being really envious of a mate of mine who's parents spent £400 on a bbc computer for him.
After the speccy, usual megadrive, ps1, ps2 and erm as for pc, still on wind98

Sssh, was still working on 3.1 two years ago

adzi · « **Reply #12 on:** August 06, 2007, 02:42:11 PM »

erm a computer another one another one a gamboy nintendo ds ps1 ps2 xbox 360 thge forst comp had wicked focus

Dusty12 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 06, 2007, 03:09:18 PM »

1.A rubbish laptop thing without a mouse or a touch pad
2.Another Computer
3.This computer-Windows XP
4.Gameboy colour
5.Gamboy Advance
6.Gamboy advance SP
7.Nintendo DS
8Nintendo wii

Sx Nutta · « **Reply #14 on:** August 06, 2007, 06:04:42 PM »

Quote from: Kiola on August 06, 2007, 10:17:02 AM

oi .. you gotta give me that Boot Screen .. lol

and you soo cheated in buying a dell .. we build our computers ..Lolz buying premade is for money wasters

K.

Its to do my uni work with, its my laptop, I am going to build a Quad core, machine with 4GB Ram, 2 Terra's of HDD, Super graphics, and lots of cooling equipment!!

I need some images of people bocking against a single colour, so I can update the image on my boot screen, from my PJ's, to actually someone bocking, then I will put it up, for poeple to use!! So people send me images of yourself bocking infront of single coloured background, and have your outline placed on a boot screen, for windows XP!!

ickle-nick · « **Reply #15 on:** August 11, 2007, 08:01:47 PM »

I took one of the boards from one the first computers I used when it was thrown out. Lots of geek points if you can guess what it was:

Jason · « **Reply #16 on:** August 11, 2007, 08:46:48 PM »

Best guess a silicon graphics video card

Dark Knight · « **Reply #17 on:** August 11, 2007, 09:18:04 PM »

I had my own "Space Invaders 2" once

Cost me £10 but I had to remove for his three floor flat which had a hatch for a door which was third the size of the machine. 3x4x8 foot of 1/2 inch clip board.

By the time I got rid of it I could clock it over every time

ickle-nick · « **Reply #18 on:** August 11, 2007, 11:48:42 PM »

Quote from: Jason on August 11, 2007, 08:46:48 PM

Best guess a silicon graphics video card

Close, it's a Silicon Graphics IP21 CPU board with two R8000 processors from a 4 processor SGI Power Challenge.

It was a very nice machine in it's day (mid 1990s) but nowadays my MP3 player could probably wipe the floor with it

wiimii · « **Reply #19 on:** February 12, 2008, 01:34:42 AM »

iv had

1) sega megadrive
2) Nintendo 64
3) playstation
4)gameboy colour
5) gameboy advance
6) gameboy advance sp
7) gamecube

Playstation 2
9) Xbox
10) ds
11) ds lite
12) nintendo wii

magzzie · « **Reply #20 on:** February 12, 2008, 07:21:53 PM »

Quote from: chocl8 on August 04, 2007, 09:45:53 PM

*muses* "what the hell is an atari 2600?

you dont remember what the Atari 2600 is??
i do and im younger than you

Sx Nutta · « **Reply #21 on:** February 12, 2008, 07:25:44 PM »

I had a atari 2600 and I loved it to bits!!

Dark Knight · « **Reply #22 on:** February 12, 2008, 08:06:26 PM »

Quote from: Sx Nutta on February 12, 2008, 07:25:44 PM

I had a atari 2600 and I loved it to bits!!

I loved playing the games and finding cheats

There was one called Superman if you paused it three second after the game started you could unpause it ( if you timed it right ) and win it in FIVE seconds

I had both type of controlers for four players

Games cost over £15 .... each ! May not sound much but that was back in 1970's

theonlysilenthunter · « **Reply #23 on:** February 13, 2008, 02:24:56 PM »

Yeh the atari was awesome, could spend hours of my childhood on that. Some of the games were a bit of a challenge aswell!!!

Dark Knight · « **Reply #24 on:** February 13, 2008, 04:36:59 PM »

Quote from: theonlysilenthunter on February 13, 2008, 02:24:56 PM

Yeh the atari was awesome, could spend hours of my childhood on that. Some of the games were a bit of a challenge aswell!!!

You can buy some of the games for the PS2 but it's not the same $:-\$

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