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My brothers & I pooled our money to buy an NES in 1990, and a Game Boy later that year.
The first system my parents bought us was a Colecovision, for Christmas 1984.
All I remember about the first PC I bought myself is that it was an Acer. I don't recall the specs, but I'm pretty sure I'm still using the box for storage.
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Yep. Back in the day, I bought a 40 MB external hard drive (heavier than the average laptop these days) for US$469 (which is about 856 inflation-adjusted dollars). And I thought I got a pretty good deal. ;-)
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Gateway 2000
Pentium 200 MMX
32MB ram
3.2gb HDD
4mb S3 video card
$3200 back in 1996. Was struck by lightning 6 months after I bought it :(
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Yeah, it was a bummer. Replaced the mobo and CPU with a 300mhz AMD though lol
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1 : XBOX 360 Arcade bought with my own money
2 : Sega Megadrive bought by my parents when i was a kid with most of the sonic games ! But they bought before a NES but i was too small to play so it was my father :p
3 : Back in 2004 : AMD Athlon 2600+ with a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro paid and built by myself !
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That is a modem and user friendly computer. The first one I bought was a MITS Altair 8800.
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I bought everything by myself, i had hands and soul for work to get my Atari when i was 13 something.
*Forget to :)
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First system my parents bought me: a slide rule.
First system I bought myself was the MITS Altair 8800 through mail order and no other home computer was for sale until a few months after I bought this..
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My parent brought me Sinclair ZX Spectrum (clone, not original). Specs for those who don't know:
First system that I brought myself is PC:
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First computer our parents bought us was a Commodore Vic20 with a datasette (cassette drive). Probably about 1984/5. 3583 usable bytes of memory!
My own first console was a PSX.
My own first PC was bought used off my brother. AMD K6-2 450, FIC PA2013 Socket7 Motherboard, Diamond Monster Fusion 16MB AGP Graphics card, 256MB RAM, 10GB HDD. It was quite a modern machine and was the start of the downward spiral ;)
Edit: Forgot the most important thing: ISDN card, and flatrates had just started, for about 100,- DM per month. So about 7% of my wages then ...
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The one i've been using for the pass 5 years. Bought it my self when I was 16, took a whole year of saving.
Only thing i've added was a ssd and a extra hdd from one of the other pcs that died because the mobo went bad. And going from win 7 to 10 which is lighter on my system.
Before that all I had was a ps2 and gamecube. If We're talking about first console my dad got my a snes when I was 5-6 years old.
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yeah, something's not right. even if that piriform reports half the speed for dual channel (like what cpu-z does), it should be 800 MHz. i would check the bios settings for your memory, and if it's set to automatic, set it to manual and enter the proper settings.
speed: 1600 MHz
timing 9-9-9-24
voltage 1.5V
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fixed?.
Had to do some googling to even figure out how to change memory settings on this mobo, the options where 400MHz, 533MHz, 667MHz, and 800MHz. I had to set it to 667 because if i set it to 800 it doesn't boot to windows. Could be because volts but mobo wouldn't let me unlock it. Maybe a setting I missed.
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LOL OLD
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The first PC my parents bought, was a 286 will a full 2MB of ram, and a Hercules video card.
I don't remember de specs of the first computer I bought with my hard earned money, I think it was a 1GHz, with 512 Mb of RAM, a crappy clone.
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Whether you used your hard-earned paycheck or saved-up allowance... If you haven't bought anything with your own money yet, what do you want to purchase when you're able?
Optional:
Mine:
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love reading these, btw.
especially all the little stories and the surprisingly wide age range of the users.
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