First Pc's (or the oldest you can remember)

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hefemeister said:
ok i will do it again.
Atari 600
NAME 600 / 800 XL
MANUFACTURER Atari
TYPE Home Computer
ORIGIN U.S.A.
YEAR 1982
END OF PRODUCTION January 85
BUILT IN LANGUAGE Atari Basic
KEYBOARD Mechanical keyboard
CPU MOS 6502C
SPEED 1.79 (NTSC) / 1.77 (PAL) MHz
COPROCESSOR GTIA (video), POKEY (sound, I/O), ANTIC (video)
RAM 16 KB (600 XL up to 48 KB) / 64 KB (800 XL, expandable to 128 KB)
ROM 24 KB
TEXT MODES five text modes, max: 40 x 24, min: 20 x 12
GRAPHIC MODES 16 graphic modes, maximum : 320 x 192
COLORS 256 (16 colors with 16 intensities)
SOUND 4 voices, 3.5 octaves
I/O PORTS Composite video output, cartridge slot, peripheral port (SIO), parallel bus, 2 joystick plugs
POWER SUPPLY External power supply unit

Was wondering why my fps on hl2 were so low? Any ideas?


Atari 2600
released in 1977

Technical specifications:
CPU: MOS Technology 6507 @ 1.19 MHz
Audio + Video processor: TIA. 160 x ~192 pixel, 128 colors (121 of them actually different from each other on NTSC, 114 on PAL), 2 channel mono sound.
RAM: 128 bytes (plus up to 256 bytes built into the game cartridges)
ROM (game cartridges): 4 KB maximum capacity (32 KB+ with paging)
Input:
Two screwless DB9 ¹ controller ports, for single-button joysticks, paddles, "trakballs", "driving controllers", 12-key "keyboard controllers" (0–9, #, and *) and third party controllers with additional functions
Six switches (original version): Power on/off, TV signal (B/W or Color), Difficulty for each player (called A and B), Select, and Reset. Except for the power switch, games could (and did) assign other meanings to the switches. On later models the difficulty switches were miniaturized and moved to the back of the unit.
Output: B/W or Color TV picture and sound signal (NTSC, PAL or SECAM, depending on region; game cartridges are exchangeable between NTSC and PAL/SECAM machines, but this will result to wrong or missing colors and often a rolling picture.)
(¹ The screwless DB9 controller ports subsequently became the mechanical/electrical de facto standard for game controllers in the 8-bit and early 16-bit era, and was used in most subsequent Atari and Commodore consoles and home computers, among many others)
Third-party peripherals:

Starpath Supercharger, a cartridge with a cassette player connector, giving 6 1/8 K storage capacity

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and i forget to tell that my uncle still have one of them
 
the oldest computer i remember was my first computer from 1994...

onboard 1MB video (Only went up to high color, even on my 19 inch monitor)

8MB RAM stock (upgraded to 32 MB)

Toshiba 8X CD-ROM

800 MB Hard drive

NO USB PORTS :(
 
Amstrad 286
desktop
32mb HDD
5 1/2 External Floppy
3 1/4 internal floppy.

used to run Windows 2.06 on it :D

i then upgraded to a:
486/66mhz DX2
4x CD Rom
430mb HDD
1mb Video
16mb Ram

then i got a:
Pentium 166mhz!!!
1.8Gb Hdd
32x8x4 CD Burner
32mb Ram

had this PC til last year, then i got my current PC :p
 
MrZucchiniHead said:
how did you live with that pc until lst year?!
i have no idea really..
i guess lack of funds meant i had to deal with it.
it ran the internet and could burn cds, that kept me happy..
 
another old pc i had, but i has young so im just guessing the specs:

intel 66mhz (486)
8 MB RAM
200 MB HD
computer was from 1992
 
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