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What is the slowest computer you ever owned?

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Belinea very old monitor 16'
I don't even know processor specs but i suspect it was pentium of some kind
32 MB ram
no GPU(integrated)
40 gb hdd


Just had it thrown away like a year ago an i looked inside but don't remember much , it was from 1997.
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
My first was a tandy model one. My older brother built a rokwell Aim 6502. Great times:)
 
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
 
ASRockIQ said:
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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old school AMD FTW :rockout:
 
My 386 chip was made by AMD... like 18 years ago. 40MHz of power!
 
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
 
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.
 
In the UK everyone and their granny had a Spectrum or something similar.
EDIT: At that time of course.
 
Perseid said:
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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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.
 
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.
 
I got a IBM PS/1 for my fifth birthday hell yeah back in 1993 :)
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Later on I got a PS/2 and then moved on to something built in Denmark.
 
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