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Your First Rig?
Well, i dont know if this has been done yet, but this is all about your first Rig.
<BR>I struggle hard to remenber my first rig, can any of u guys remember yours...
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<BR>My 1st Rig:
<BR>486DX "some text deleted"
<BR>800MB HDD
<BR>16MB Ram (That was alot)
<BR>Win 95 (Load on by me & my dad with 16 Stiffy disks, we had fun, NOT <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_razz.gif"> )
<BR>No CD-Rom(No CD-RW either)
<BR>No Graphics Card (Wots an AGP? <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_confused.gif"> )
<BR>Only Games i´d play was PC Pacman + Solitaire
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<BR><IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif"> "On my block, i had the best, & fastest PC" <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif"> <BR><BR><font size=-1>[ Edited by simmy On Date <br>July 28, 2003 ]</font>
<BR>I struggle hard to remenber my first rig, can any of u guys remember yours...
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<BR>My 1st Rig:
<BR>486DX "some text deleted"
<BR>800MB HDD
<BR>16MB Ram (That was alot)
<BR>Win 95 (Load on by me & my dad with 16 Stiffy disks, we had fun, NOT <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_razz.gif"> )
<BR>No CD-Rom(No CD-RW either)
<BR>No Graphics Card (Wots an AGP? <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_confused.gif"> )
<BR>Only Games i´d play was PC Pacman + Solitaire
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<BR><IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif"> "On my block, i had the best, & fastest PC" <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif"> <BR><BR><font size=-1>[ Edited by simmy On Date <br>July 28, 2003 ]</font>
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Hehe if it was a 486DX it wasn´t a pentium, the 486 was the predesessor of the Pentium.
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<BR>Anyway my first PC was a 486DX 100Mhz with 32MB Ram and a 800Mb Hard drive, plus a 2MB display card.
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<BR>Anyway my first PC was a 486DX 100Mhz with 32MB Ram and a 800Mb Hard drive, plus a 2MB display card.
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My first PC
<BR>286, 1/2 MB Ram, 10MB Hdd, Dos 4.33 MonoChrom Screen
<BR>Fav game prince of persia!
<BR>Stealth 1942
<BR>F1 Fighter.
<BR>WHats windows? I was the only one with a PC. Until a buddy of mine got a 486 I hated his family!
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<BR>Followed by a 100Mhz Pentium.
<BR>16MB Ram, 2.1Gb(BTW still have it today in working order) and HDD and 200Mb, 4x CD ROM
<BR>Windows 95Plus
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<BR>Next
<BR>Intel Pentium II 300Mhz
<BR>128MB Ram, 20Gig HDD, Aopen 4MB AGP 2x(upgraded 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 16MB @ R1600) CD rom 32x
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<BR>Next
<BR>Duron 1000Mhz, 320MB ram, Voodoo 3 3000(Upgrade to ASUS nForce with 256MB DDR @ 266 & GeForce 2 MX 200), 20Gb HDD and CD rom.
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<BR>Next
<BR>My current PC! <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif">
<BR>286, 1/2 MB Ram, 10MB Hdd, Dos 4.33 MonoChrom Screen
<BR>Fav game prince of persia!
<BR>Stealth 1942
<BR>F1 Fighter.
<BR>WHats windows? I was the only one with a PC. Until a buddy of mine got a 486 I hated his family!
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<BR>Followed by a 100Mhz Pentium.
<BR>16MB Ram, 2.1Gb(BTW still have it today in working order) and HDD and 200Mb, 4x CD ROM
<BR>Windows 95Plus
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<BR>Next
<BR>Intel Pentium II 300Mhz
<BR>128MB Ram, 20Gig HDD, Aopen 4MB AGP 2x(upgraded 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 16MB @ R1600) CD rom 32x
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<BR>Next
<BR>Duron 1000Mhz, 320MB ram, Voodoo 3 3000(Upgrade to ASUS nForce with 256MB DDR @ 266 & GeForce 2 MX 200), 20Gb HDD and CD rom.
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<BR>Next
<BR>My current PC! <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif">
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Your First Rig?
Well I thought we were talking about PC´s that belonged to us, but if not then the earliest PC we had ( it belonged to my father ) was an old 286 laptop with a green display (yuck), 512kb RAM and I think it had a 10Mb hard drive if it was even that big...
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<BR>I used to play Kings Quest, Police Quest and Friendly ware on it all the time!
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<BR>I used to play Kings Quest, Police Quest and Friendly ware on it all the time!
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Your First Rig?
Can anyone beat our first PC?!?
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<BR>XT (8086)
<BR>640 K Ram
<BR>20 MB HDD (Thats right, 20 Megabytes)
<BR>360 K FDD
<BR>Amber Monitor (Orange on Black)
<BR>MSDOS 3.0 (No Windows Back then)
<BR>We played games like Tetris, Pac man, Space invaders, and Monty (Montezuma´s revenge), Which was my favorite at the time.
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<BR>Don´t forget the 8 pin Dot matrix printer!
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<BR>This "Rig", If it qualifies as one, cost my dad R8000 in 1987
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<BR>XT (8086)
<BR>640 K Ram
<BR>20 MB HDD (Thats right, 20 Megabytes)
<BR>360 K FDD
<BR>Amber Monitor (Orange on Black)
<BR>MSDOS 3.0 (No Windows Back then)
<BR>We played games like Tetris, Pac man, Space invaders, and Monty (Montezuma´s revenge), Which was my favorite at the time.
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<BR>Don´t forget the 8 pin Dot matrix printer!
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<BR>This "Rig", If it qualifies as one, cost my dad R8000 in 1987
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Man that´s an enormous Hdd you had with the 8086...
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Oh Yes only1, Are you sure about 512 K RAM? Didn´t all PC´s have 640 K? <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_confused.gif">
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Not sure - could have been 640kb.
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Your First Rig?
Man, Those were the good old days! Never Having to worry about if a game will run or not, All the games that were available worked, and upgrading wasn´t even invented yet. <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif">
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<BR>And Don´t forget that we didn´t have any trouble with windows, because we worked in MSDOS!!!
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<BR>Bad Command Or File Name.
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<BR>And Don´t forget that we didn´t have any trouble with windows, because we worked in MSDOS!!!
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<BR>Bad Command Or File Name.
Your First Rig?
Does a spectrum count as a pc? You know, the one where you had to put a tape casette into the player, and then you type on the keyboard at the command prompt. Games like Manic miner, jet set willy, etc.
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<BR>Anyone remember California games, Winter games, and all those other great titles that used to keep you glued to the screen. Wish they would bring out something like that again with updated graphics of course, but still the same easy gameplay
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<BR>Anyone remember California games, Winter games, and all those other great titles that used to keep you glued to the screen. Wish they would bring out something like that again with updated graphics of course, but still the same easy gameplay
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Your First Rig?
i can remember those " Winter Games, California Games". i used 2 play it on a 8-bit TV Game" Golden China".
<BR>But b4 that even b4 my PC, i had an ATARI, overlayed with OAK. only game i played was tennis(or table tennis) - black screen, 2 paddels, a line and a ball.
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<BR>But b4 that even b4 my PC, i had an ATARI, overlayed with OAK. only game i played was tennis(or table tennis) - black screen, 2 paddels, a line and a ball.
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Your First Rig?
Cal games was sweet <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_cool.gif">
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<BR>Talking about games like that, Retro gaming(You know, old games that are redone with new tech, like DXBall, a remake of the classic Brake out) is coming in big lately. I´m thinking of starting a project like that. Don´t know what tipe of game yet but it will be All DirectX. anyone interested in helping?(Especially Graphics wise). I´m a programmer but I can´t draw a straight line.
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<BR>Talking about games like that, Retro gaming(You know, old games that are redone with new tech, like DXBall, a remake of the classic Brake out) is coming in big lately. I´m thinking of starting a project like that. Don´t know what tipe of game yet but it will be All DirectX. anyone interested in helping?(Especially Graphics wise). I´m a programmer but I can´t draw a straight line.
Your First Rig?
My first computer was a black and white job which I got when I was 2 years old!
<BR>Next I got a 486 with a soundcard and state of the art CD Rom drive! I remember playing Deathtrack , Jazz Jackrabbit , Heretic and Megarace.
<BR>After that I got a PIII 600 Mhz , SB Live , TNT 2 16MB ,
<BR>My current rig is a AMD Athlon XP 2000+
<BR>Radeon 128 MB DDR
<BR>384 MB DDR
<BR>GA 7VAXP - MOBO <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif">
<BR>Next I got a 486 with a soundcard and state of the art CD Rom drive! I remember playing Deathtrack , Jazz Jackrabbit , Heretic and Megarace.
<BR>After that I got a PIII 600 Mhz , SB Live , TNT 2 16MB ,
<BR>My current rig is a AMD Athlon XP 2000+
<BR>Radeon 128 MB DDR
<BR>384 MB DDR
<BR>GA 7VAXP - MOBO <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif">
Your First Rig?
ah my first pc
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<BR>it was a blindingly fast amd 486-dx2 running at (gasp) 80 MHZ
<BR>with a 2mb 2d graphics card name started with a "t"...hmm
<BR>8 mb of ram
<BR>windows 3.1 (oh yeah <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_lol.gif"> )
<BR>a 14" monitor(still working)
<BR>no cdrom...(cdrom what the heck is that? <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_razz.gif"> )
<BR>800mb hard drive
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<BR>ah those were the days <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_razz.gif">
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<BR>it was a blindingly fast amd 486-dx2 running at (gasp) 80 MHZ
<BR>with a 2mb 2d graphics card name started with a "t"...hmm
<BR>8 mb of ram
<BR>windows 3.1 (oh yeah <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_lol.gif"> )
<BR>a 14" monitor(still working)
<BR>no cdrom...(cdrom what the heck is that? <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_razz.gif"> )
<BR>800mb hard drive
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<BR>ah those were the days <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_razz.gif">
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xt turbo a whole 12mhz
<BR>green monocrome
<BR>2x 360kb disc drives
<BR>zigali harddrive
<BR>zigali cdrom
<BR>zigali soundcard
<BR>zigali mouse (only got one of those a few month later)
<BR>zigali windows
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<BR>ama epson dotmatrix
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<BR>but had a joystick, so games where played on this monster machine
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<BR>AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH the good old days
<BR>green monocrome
<BR>2x 360kb disc drives
<BR>zigali harddrive
<BR>zigali cdrom
<BR>zigali soundcard
<BR>zigali mouse (only got one of those a few month later)
<BR>zigali windows
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<BR>ama epson dotmatrix
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<BR>but had a joystick, so games where played on this monster machine
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<BR>AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH the good old days
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Re: Your First Rig?
Hey another old thread to bring back
, My first Rig was a 200Mhz pentium mmx, Asus sp97V, 64mb EDO memory, 4.3GB HDD, ATI 3DRage 2+, creative sound blaster awe 32, win 95. I still have this rig around here somewhere.
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Re: Your First Rig?
Ah come on another rig thread? Why not combine them all into one thread and then just specify which rig you are posting, 1st rig, best rig, gaming rig etc.
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Re: Your First Rig?
MY first IBM compatible:
133Mhz Pentium, 8Mb RAM, Gigabyte 586ATV motherboard, ESS 1868 Audiodrive sound card, Trident TGUI 9440 1Mb graphics card,
1Gb Seagate Medallist hard drive, 4 speed Creative CD ROM drive, 14 inch Mecer monitor and a terrible set of speakers.
With the assistance who actually knew something about PCs [he now has a PhD] I bought this machine with the R6000-odd
left to me by my grandmother.
For the first 8 months, I hardly touched it at all.
133Mhz Pentium, 8Mb RAM, Gigabyte 586ATV motherboard, ESS 1868 Audiodrive sound card, Trident TGUI 9440 1Mb graphics card,
1Gb Seagate Medallist hard drive, 4 speed Creative CD ROM drive, 14 inch Mecer monitor and a terrible set of speakers.
With the assistance who actually knew something about PCs [he now has a PhD] I bought this machine with the R6000-odd
left to me by my grandmother.
For the first 8 months, I hardly touched it at all.
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Re: Your First Rig?
My First Rig was a 2.4Ghz P4 with 40Gig Seagate HDD 512mb DDR 266 and some random MB with built in Video/Lan/Audio. Certainly a far cry from my current rig in my sig.
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Re: Your First Rig?
You have not been in the PC world long if your first pc was a P4 from circa 2002.
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Re: Your First Rig?
My first PC (if you want to call it that) was a Sinclair ZX spectrum with a micro disk drive and a whole box full of cassettes
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Re: Your First Rig?
I had an 8088Kronos wrote:Can anyone beat our first PC?!?
<BR>
<BR>XT (8086)
<BR>640 K Ram
<BR>20 MB HDD (Thats right, 20 Megabytes)
<BR>360 K FDD
<BR>Amber Monitor (Orange on Black)
<BR>MSDOS 3.0 (No Windows Back then)
<BR>We played games like Tetris, Pac man, Space invaders, and Monty (Montezuma´s revenge), Which was my favorite at the time.
<BR>
<BR>Don´t forget the 8 pin Dot matrix printer!
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<BR>This "Rig", If it qualifies as one, cost my dad R8000 in 1987
640k ram
32 MB hdd!
360k fdd
12" amber monitor
Hercules display adapter
Epson dot matrix printer
Played space quest 1 and 2, tetris, California games.
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