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01-06-2003, 07:50 AM
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How long????
Saw this thread and got thinking...
When did you first get your hands on a PC? I'm not talking about a Commodore VIC-20 or 64/128, Timex Sinclair, etc., but a REAL PC (x86/8088/etc).
For me was 10th grade - 1983 on a REAL IBM PC/XT/AT at school. Been tinkering ever since and STILL am learning! 
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01-06-2003, 07:54 AM
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I was in 5th grade. It was a p1 100! this was 1995!
I played need for speed all night long!
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01-06-2003, 09:02 AM
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I bought my first computer in about 1990 at the tender age of 22 or 23. In 1988 I touched my fist computer at work a mac 2 se.
I highschool 1982 1983 ish I took some basic programming classes on the commodore PET and the Apple 2 se was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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01-06-2003, 01:55 PM
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my first was in 1995, a 8mb ram, p1 75mhz, and 548mb hdd!
man, was it fast
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01-06-2003, 02:24 PM
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Grade 5, 1992. An old 286 NEC.
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01-06-2003, 02:29 PM
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1993, 386DX 20/40 (had a turbo button), 4 mb RAM, 1mb vid card bought from ABS computers for $1251.
This doesn't count my Atari, TI, etc.
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01-07-2003, 08:01 AM
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What do turbo buttons do? I used to have a PC with that
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01-07-2003, 08:13 AM
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1991 IBM PS/2 286 20mhz, 1 MB Ram, 20 MB Hd. Turbo button included and I think it had Win 3.0. That is if you dont count the TRS-80s we used in jr high or the Franklins we used in elementary school to learn on!!!
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01-07-2003, 03:29 PM
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What do turbo buttons do?
| If you have a mobo with the right connectors, it was a 100% overclock. In my case 20mHz to 40mHz. And this with no heatsink 
In the day this was pdf, my buddy had a 8088 with an orange monochrome monitor and a CGA emulator program. Also, my comp had a whopping 120 megabyte hdd.
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01-07-2003, 03:34 PM
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My first one was back in grade 6, a 286-10 OC'd to 12, 640k 40Mb RLL. Gold monochrome monitor.
Back then it was worth over 3000$ (XT's were still mainstream)
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