Do you remember the first pc you built!!

Yeah, I remember the Heathkits. Somewhere around 1970 you could also buy a kit and build your own microwave oven. I don't remember what other kits they had besides the computer, microwave, and color TV...

My first computer to build was an Atari 800 (not the xl or anything cool like that). Built it with parts from other ataris for a College project at the U of M in Munich West Germany. Had a blast, we saw an IBM PC jr. with the detachable keyboard at a tech show and decided we could make the atari do the same thing with a long ribon cable and it actually worked! Now we build computers with jumperless mobo's and plug in memory. Remember when adding even 16k of ram meant a whole bank of chips plopped onto the mobo or on a add on card and it cost big bucks? Man has things changed in just a short amount of time!!
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just a gun totin computer geek.....

I bought my first pc (486/66 4 meg ram, 245mg hdd). Been upgrading piece by piece ever since (still have memory from that pc and hdd)

the first real computer that i had was a texas instruments ti-99/4a
nuff said

then I had an IBM PCjr with 640k ram two floppy drives. to give it credit it did have an rca out to hook it to another tv or vcr and it also had a wireless keyboard that worked real well. cut my teeth with the racor upgrade that would switch it between pc jr and regular pc mode so i could play kings quest 1. i still have the games....

then a 486dx/33 with a massive 250mb hdd and 4mb ram, 2 floppies, a 9600 modem, no sound, no cd, nothing, windows 3.1 and came with dos 5. thats where i really learned that you cant really break an pc you can just mess it up an awful lot



[This message has been edited by Jgold47 (edited October 02, 2000).]