how much hard drive space did your first computer have?

danger boy
danger boy Posts: 15,722
edited February 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
my computer is running so much better now. . i defraged it today.. took nearly 6 hours too... and I only have a small 40gig drive in it.

It and the owner are doing very well now.

? for you all

How much hard drive storage space did your first computer have in it? my first one had 2gig. :p that was way back in 1996 running Win 95 with 64megs RAM. :eek:
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited October 2003
    Like 200-300 megabytes....... was a 386 with like a 4 or 5 hundred meg drive... since then i had learned to build them myself and have had about 15 computers in the last 6 years... or more, My main machine im on now had a 30 gig hard drive which after 3 years was almost out of space on the C: drive so i bought a Maxtor 160 gig ata133 drive... the maxtor cd had a program that transferred all my data from the old drive to the new.. took about 4 hours to do.. but the new drive was setup like i never switched em, settings.. favorites, everything.. like a ghost copy..

    Now this drive has oddles of space.....
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited October 2003
    my first computer didn't even HAVE a hard drive.

    i had a 5.25" boot disk for DOS and a BASIC catridge to boot into BASIC. i thought it was the coolest thing when we got an external 3.5" drive. :)

    oh it was an IBM PC Jr. if you must know :p
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited October 2003
    Mine was a Compaq XT clone *IBM Compatible* with 10 mb HD, it was state of the art back then...
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2003
    Dual 20 meg drives. I still have them *both*. (incase I ever need a couple make-shift anchors for a john boat)

    8088 processor, 512k ram, dual 5.25" floppys, green screen, and a dot matrix on the ****-end.

    My pops paid 5 grand for it, the latest and greatest.

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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited October 2003
    64k ram, 1 5 1/4" floppy, 8088 procesor, and a monochrome moniter.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited October 2003
    My first computer purchase was a MAC. It had a 25mhz processor, 25mb RAM and a 50mb HD.

    Now...I have a 2 ghz P4 with an 80GB Western Digital HD, DVD drive, CD burner kickin at 56X and a GeForce 4 video card with 64mb DDR RAM.

    My Server is my old P2 box running Win 2000 Advanced Server with 2 40GB HD's in a mirrored array for backup.

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  • Polk-a-nizer
    Polk-a-nizer Posts: 225
    edited October 2003
    Compaq Presario 7222 with 16mb of RAM and I ahev no idea of the HD space.. and the big kicker.. don't laugh..... I STILL HAVE IT! :( :mad: :(
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited October 2003
    Hand-built 486/66 w/ 4mb RAM (later, purchased 4 more mb for $30); 540mb HD; 1x CD-ROM drive, win 3.1, later win95.

    NOW- AMD Athlon 2100+; 512mb DDR; 80gb HD, and a videocard w/ more memory and processing power than my original computer had altogether.
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  • section19
    section19 Posts: 90
    edited October 2003
    Same as Phantom. No HD at all. Apple IIe, I think, or was it IIc? Whatever. Got it in the early 80's. It had a better monitor than the Mac (bigger and color). But what absolutely **** graphics. I had a game called "Wizardry" that I'd play on it. No sound and graphics that look like they were drawn by a 4 yr. old. What a piece of junk.

    And I paid something like $1200 for it. :D
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited October 2003
    64K of memory, no hard drive and a 5.25 inch 1541 disk drive

    Commodore 64 with a color monitor.

    First PC/Intel based system was a 286 with 32 megs of RAM and a 250 MB hard drive.

    First Mac was a Performa 5200 with 16 megs of RAM and a 650 MB hard drive. Total crap.

    Now I have a 1.6 GHz P4 with 1.0 GB of RAM and 380 GB of hard drive space.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited October 2003
    First Computer: Apple IIC 640K RAM no hard drive...
    First IBM compatable: 486DX2 33 with a 40 MB hard drive and 4MB RAM
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  • weavercr
    weavercr Posts: 289
    edited October 2003
    my first 2 computers didn't even have hard drives.

    i had a 5.25" boot disk for DOS and a BASIC catridge to boot into BASIC. i thought it was the coolest thing when we got an external 3.5" drive

    First Computer: 1977 Apple I 16K RAM, floppy and tape drive

    First IBM (compatable): 1981 IBM PC 8086 640k ram 5.25 boot
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  • goingganzo
    goingganzo Posts: 2,793
    edited October 2003
    mine was a apple 2 e with 64k of memory


    now amd 2500 with 3 120gig gig hd and 2 80gig hd and 1 40gig and i am going to get a 4 th 120 today
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  • Steve@3dai
    Steve@3dai Posts: 983
    edited October 2003
    8086 4.77Mhz
    Mono all the way
    1200baud modem (up from the 300 that originally came with it)
    5-10mb (I can't remember)
    2 x 5.25

    That was mine, it was in my room, I was like the only person in my freaking school with my own personal PC at that point ;)
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  • wallstreet
    wallstreet Posts: 1,405
    edited October 2003
    that TI 99/4 or something like that. It had a tape recorder drive on it. After that it was the PC XT with a 10 mb hard drive. Then I really moved up to the PC AT with a 30mb hard drive.
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  • xfontanax
    xfontanax Posts: 82
    edited October 2003
    First computer- Commodore 64. At the time I first had it, only way to save files was to record on a tape recorder. Soon after that, I got a 5 1/4 floppy drove. This was a great gaming machine during its time.
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,090
    edited October 2003
    I had the EXACT same Commodore 64 setup......fact, I think it's still at my parents house with my pong game.


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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited October 2003
    an apple with a 4 mb hard drive, still have it. my dad is convinced that it will be a sought after antique. idc though its still a piece of junk compared to the sony vaio im on now lol. worlds apart
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited November 2003
    I got my first system back in 1989 when I returned from Germany -- 286 12MHz, DOS ver 4.01, 1MB RAM (expanded w/ 2MB card), 40 MB HD, 14 in green mono monitor, 1200 baud modem (later upgraded to 2400 baud modem), Epson bi-directional dot matrix printer, $1800. I was cookin' man!
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