Mac Specs: 20" iMac 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2 Gig DDR Ram. WD My Book 500 Gig HDD. Klipsch Promedia 2.1 THX
Commodore 64 at home, IBM Mainframe and Univac 1050-2 at work, and an old CP/M based Apple II for a side work with the city. My first IBM compatible was a 386SE based Infinity running MS-DOS and eventually Win 3.1.
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Did it totally work off the two floppy's or did it also have a hard drive? I remember the Dual Floppy machines with no hard drive. IBM 5151 is one that comes to mind.
No HD - just the dual floppies! Man was it advanced!!
Mac Specs: 2009 Macbook White 2Ghz 2Gig RAM 120Gig HDD
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IBM PS1 2Mb RAM, 85 Mb HDD running windows 3. Laughable now
If you multiply those specs by a thousand you have a pretty standard machine for today :-)
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A 1976 IMSAII 8080 with all of 8k of ram, no keyboard, monitor or hard drive. Well, it shortly got a 'stringy' hard drive, which was a Radio Shack cassette recorder/player.
Eventually it got a keyboard from some old IBM terminal, a Sears B&W Tv for a monitor (64x16 characters), 32k of ram, and much later, a 128k 8 inch floppy.
It had a transformer power supply that supplied 25 amps. You had to be really careful where you stuck a screwdriver blade back then.
i remember sitting on my top bunk playing Zork from 8 feet away. i also had another game. it was like Indiana Jones, but that was not the name of it. I think it was Pitfall. according to this website IBM PCjr Options and Accessories it was Pitfall 2
Mac Specs: 13" Macbook Pro 2.26Ghz Unibody 4G RAM 160G HDD Superdrive
First computer I ever used? An IBM 4341 running MVS/TSO via an honest to god 3270 green screen terminal. Keyboard like a Selectric with PF keys and half duplex batch processing. Used to write term papers and play Advent.
First computer in the house? An IBM PC (real one, not clone) with the 8088 and 256K of RAM. Used to fiddle with DBASE III, Wordstar for those term papers, and to dial into the aforementioned mainframe with a 1200 baud modem.
First computer I personally owned? A stupid un-upgradable Tandy PC clone I foolishly ordered from an AMEX catalog. All in one CPU/keyboard, and CGA graphics. It was crap but it was mine.
Then went through (using wise) a bunch of Suns, more 3270s, SparcStations, and managed to acquire an off-name brand 386 with 2 meg of RAM and a 65 MB hard drive. Eventually HD crapped out but used as terminal to dial into work after boot from 5 1/4 floppy with a version of Kermit with now a 2400 baud modem. A few more build-it-yourself beige boxes (and one store-bought HP in the win '98 days.)
Never owned a pre-OS X Mac as they were two expensive and actually were crappy. Now three OS X Macs later here we are with the Macbook Pro.
Mac Specs: 15" mbp, too many ipods and other stuff
an Atari 800xl. Through college I had a DECvt220 that was hardwired to an external modem.. so I could check my email from home.
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