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Just had it thrown away like a year ago an i looked inside but don't remember much , it was from 1997.
 

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Posting pictures is a bonus. Anyone have them in the early 70s or something posing with a computer?

Anyway, I have pictures of my 5150 somewhere...

EDIT: Found it!

 

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I had an Amiga 2000.

CPU: Motorola 68000 (7.16 MHz NTSC, 7.09 MHz PAL)
Memory : 256 KB ROM for Kickstart code + 512 KB (Max) / (1 MB Max) of Chip RAM.
512 KB Fast RAM in MMU slot (in some Model As only) / Soldered on motherboard
Storage : 3.5" DD Floppy drive, capacity 880 KB
 
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South West Technical Products with Motorola 6800 CPU


Specs:

Prosessor: 6800 later followed by the 6809
Bus: SS-50, a 50 pins bus
Date: some after July 1975
Ram: up to 48k ram
Media: 300 baud tape recorder
Disk: 5.25 ", used SS SD hardsectored 85K data, 35 tracks, 34 users, 10 sec/track, 4 taken by Dos.
Language: basic OS in PROM
Operating Systems: MINIDOS
Rom: up to 8K, ROM or EPROM
RS-232 type serial interface
Screen and keyboard: Information is entered into the SWTPC 6800 by an external terminal, or any other input device that can be connected to an 8-bit ASCII

Here's a link.

I got mine either late 1976 or early 1977. It came as a kit. I had to solder the chips or sockets to circuit boards, assemble and power up. Guess what, it didn't start!:eek: I sat down with the computer store's technician and several hours later we found a missing trace. A little repair and I had my first computer operating.:)

For storage I started out with a cassette recorder but soon had a 5.25" disk. I later had a 8" disk system. I believe the processor ran at 1 MHz but there were 1.5 MHz and 2 MHz version of the 6800. I later got a 6809.




 

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When I bought my first computer I had a choice of the SWTP 6800 or the original Apple. I choose the cheaper as the Apple was outrageously expensive.

I've also had two different Atari's, then I believe an Amiga 500 then finally my first PC. You could say it was also a kit without the soldering. I haven't owned a PC that I didn't select all the components as most of us probably do today.

I believe my first PC was a 286. Every since then I've been swapping out motherboards, processors, memory, drives, OS, etc.
 
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I bought my first computer in 1995, I can't remember too much about it other than it was a Packard Bell with a whopping 512mb harddrive and I think it ran Windows 3.0?
 

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SUCK IT @ 8bit, 1.19MHz
 
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My first computer was a Sakhr MSX AX-170 with the following specs:

* Processor: Zilog Z80A running at 3.58 MHz
* ROM: 32 KB
o BIOS (16 KB)
o MSX BASIC V1.0 (16 KB)
* RAM: 64K
* Video Display Processor: Texas Instruments TMS9918 family
o Video RAM: 16 KB
o Resolution: 256×192 (16 colours)[13]
* Sound chip: General Instrument AY-3-8910 (PSG)

We've gone a long way, haven't we?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
 

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Interesting. I didn't know the MSX was popular in the middle east. I always thought it was more of an Asian phenomenon. Here in the US I've never even seen one outside of pictures.
 
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Far back when i was just maybe 7 was my Grandpa P1 133mhz, 10GB HDD, and only 16MB of RAM "Later to 32MB Lol" and some GPU with 4MB of VRAM . running Windows 98. aww... 98 was the Shitz back then. later i built my own AMD System socket A Based 1.6GHZ, 384MB of RAM, Powercolor ATI 9600PRO 256MB, 40GB HDD, Win. 98SE, then Full Format to Xp *Baby
 
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Far back when i was just maybe 7 was my Grandpa P1 133mhz, 10GB HDD, and only 16MB of RAM "Later to 32MB Lol" and some GPU with 4MB of VRAM . running Windows 98. aww... 98 was the Shitz back then. later i built my own AMD System socket A Based 1.6GHZ, 384MB of RAM, Powercolor ATI 9600PRO 256MB, 40GB HDD, Win. 98SE, then Full Format to Xp *Baby

old school AMD FTW :rockout:
 
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My 386 chip was made by AMD... like 18 years ago. 40MHz of power!
 
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well ummmm. slowest computer i ever had would be a Q6600@3ghz 4gb of 4-4-4-12 800hmhz..... oh wait the only computer i have ever had is my current one :( IM just a young-ling
 

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my slowest that i owned was some kind of AMD k5 or K6 made by packered bell.
this is other then the 386 that i played around with just for the hell of it.
 
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In the UK everyone and their granny had a Spectrum or something similar.
EDIT: At that time of course.
 
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Interesting. I didn't know the MSX was popular in the middle east. I always thought it was more of an Asian phenomenon. Here in the US I've never even seen one outside of pictures.

Sure, it was very popular in the middle east between 1985-1989 until the PC came and took its place. My first computer was the Sakhr MSX AX-170 (MSX1 spec) and a couple of years later I got the Sakhr MSX AX-500 (MSX2 spec), :) those were the days.
 

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my 1st PC was a 486dx2 66mhz with a 1/2 mb grafix card and 4mb ram , i remember buying Doom 2 for it ,and having to rush back to computer shop to buy more ram as 4mb wasnt enuff to get sound effects lol ,previous to that i had plenty of Amigas A500/A600/A1200 and an Atari 520 ST.
 
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I got a IBM PS/1 for my fifth birthday hell yeah back in 1993 :)


Later on I got a PS/2 and then moved on to something built in Denmark.
 
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