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My first real computer (not counting the TI/99 from 1983?) was a Powermac 6100 from around 1994. Actually, I had two identical cpus, with scsi peripherals (CD, printer) and a single 13'' monitor. IIRC each CPU had 16MB of RAM and each had a 500MB disk. I wound up putting both drives into one of the cpus and later paying almost $300 to add 64MB of RAM. Games ran much better, but the OS was total crap (System 7.5.x) and crashed constantly.
My first Windows PC was an HP Pavilion with a 350MHz AMD chip, a 40MB HDD, 32MB RAM, and a screaming 56Kb modem. I added a SuperDisk drive for around $200. The monitor was a 15'' Sony Trinitron costing another $200. This was my first development computer when I went back to uni in '98. For graduation 2 years later, I got my first laptop, a Gateway Solo 9300 with a huge 15.7'' screen, a 750MHz Pentium III, and 64MB RAM. Unfortunately, it came with the Millenium OS which was total crap. After a few too many crashes during development (lost work) I bought a copy of Win2K for it. I used Win2K as my OS of choice for almost 10 years, basically skipping XP altogether. Happy Days! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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The first computer I ever owned was the TI/99-4A!
My first PC was a 386SX with 2 MB of RAM!
The difficult we do right away...
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 Yeah, mine was the 4a as well, bought as a Christmas gift for my two brothers and I. All they wanted to do was play games on it. (Tombstone, Micro-surgeon, Alpiner, Congo Bongo, and Pirate Adventure are the ones I remember) I was more interested in figuring out how to make it do something useful...like my geometry homework. Learning BASIC helped a lot when I started my CS degree a couple of years later. I graduated 14 years later! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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BryanFazekas wrote: [I do mean Hz, not MHz or GHz]
You must be mistaken. I guarantee you that the CPU clock speed was not 7.5 cycles per second (Hertz). It must have been MHz.
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You are correct. I updated the original post.
You may be correct. This was 40 years ago ... memory is a bit fuzzy.
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Back in the 90's I remember wasting $300 on a Zip drive. The lure of storing 100 MB on each cartridge was too much. It seems like the cartridges were relatively expensive as well.
Of course about a year later they came out with CD Writers built into the PC's already.
Brent Hoskisson
Brent
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I am a few weeks older than the IBM System/360 announcement.
When I was eight or nine, my father gave an introductory programming course in the Weizman Institute (their mainframe was a 360) and took me along. My first program was in Fortran on punched cards. It read pairs of numbers and output their product. True to form, it had a bug in it. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The line about TrueType fonts no longer being in vogue or even heard of by the younger crowd prove I'm an old codger. Get off my lawn.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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While us old folks yearn for the kern, baby!
Jeremy Falcon
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With age comes wisdom!
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Tru dat, buddy.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy, you're not really old until your body feels it necessary to remind you of it Every. Single. ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing. Moment. Of. The. Day.
I use naproxen sodium to tell mine to STFU and soldier, morning and evening. Sometimes it even works  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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I laugh, but ya know... dang. 
Jeremy Falcon
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