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PC Turns 25 Years Old

Wow, it's ONLY been 25 years with this technology and look where we are today. I remember my first computer was a Packard Bell running Windows 3.1. 

What was your first computer?

My oldest was Intel 386 running MSDOS 6.22.

My first one was an Amstrad 512k with 2 x 5 1/4 floppy drives and CGA Monitor.

I think CPU was a 8086 at 8MHz and it had the DOS 3.0

Awsome at that time

Appe IIe then an IBM compatible 8088 that speed everything up including the time when switch to turbo mode.

Ricky

Commodore 64 was the earliest computer I remember having at home.  My father started working for Epson computers when I was but a 8 years old I think.  Obviously there after we had a lot of epson computers... when epson still made computers.  I remember when my father bought me a computer... I think I was probably 10th grade which puts me about 16 years old?  It had a CD-ROM which I thought was crazy!  386 running Windows 3.1, 250mb hard drive, 28K modem that I upgraded to 56K.    I remember there was an instruction list that came with the computer that instructed you how to reload the software/drivers, and in what order to load them, in the event you had to restore your system.  They weren't advanced enough to have a recovery disc or anything like that. 

alas one day there was an electrical problem and that computer literally started smoking signalling it's end. 

omcantu:

Turbo Mode! I remember that! I wonder if that's how the "Overclocking" trend started.

Althought a bad implementation at that time.  It was quite stable and did not hung unlike some others boards, just wish it would keep the correct time. 

I also changed the 8088 processor to a NEC V20.

Ricky