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What is the slowest computer you've ever owned?

My pop clarified it was indeed the ZX81. Last game I got for it was New Zealand Story or something-Kiwi. got that the day my sister was born... 14 years ago now!
 
My slowest computer owned was the good ol' Mac Plus my Dad bought in 1988. I got 'ownership' of this machine in 1994 and used it in University for 2 years till I bought my Performa 6320CD. That Mac Plus still worked when my family gave it away to some charity.

Not as slow as some, but I did learn to program on a commodore PET 4032 in highschool... :)
 
My slowest computer had to be a 400mhz compaq with 64mb of ram tha maxed out at 256mb and it had a 10 gig hard drive and it had windows 95. The thing too forever to boot up but it shut down pretty fast. At that time it was actually pretty fast, but now its not even worth booting up lol.
 
Me and my brother had one of these beauties circa 1986...

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The ZX Spectrum +2. Behold the 3.54Mhz processor and the mighty 128kb of RAM! Stand well back kids, lest you be burnt by the white heat of mid-eighties computing technology. :cool:

Also the only computer I've ever owned that doesn't have a little apple on it...
 
A dual core 2Ghz Intel Core Duo is the slowest, fastest and only chip I have had in a computer that I have owned.
 
Atari 800 from 1984 still have it. Have not turned it on in 15 years. Wonder if the floppies still have any info on them?
 
the slowest computer that I have actually owned is a 400MHz Sony Vaio running windows 98. My family had some old Packard Bell computer that I can't remember the speed of.
 
I had a Macintosh plus until I was in 8th grade, when my dad gave my brother and me his beautiful 2nd gen blue g3 iMac (not the original bondi one). Now that I think about it, all my computers have been all-in-ones!

I had a blast playing Spacestation Pheta on that Plus, I've got to say... "Jump, Jump, Jump, Get, Jump..." And my best friend told me Lode Runner was an original idea!
 
I dunno about the first one my family owned after I was born (which ran DOS), but the first one I was competent with was a Gateway 2000 running Windows 95. Man, did that suck.
 
I don't remember what the heck that computer was called that I grew up with. I remember my dad buying one of the top computers.. Within two years it was the slowest thing ever. My mom still had it last year (8 years later) Definately not the fastest thing. HP Windows 98
 
Felldownthewell said:
Well I'm 16, so I don't have any experiance with computers older than my family's first celeron-based gateway. All I remember about that machine is that it had a celeron when they were new, a whopping 7gb of HDD space and something like 256mb of RAM. It ran diablo 2 and browsed the internet; that was all I needed it to do at the time.
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Geez, I'm 13 and even my first computer experience was on a Dell with probably 100 or so mhz, 1GB hard drive I think, at most 128 MB of ram, and Windows 95. But maybe it's because I recall I'd listen to vinyl (Disney records), used a rotary phone, kind of used a typewriter, and our main TV had them rotating knobs (still works to an extent). All in the mid 1990's. :cool:
 
John Jacob said:
An Amstrad PCW 8256 personal computer and word processor running the CP/M 3 operating system, with 256KB RAM and a 3" (not 3.5") floppy drive, and a Zilog Z80 processor. Sorry, don't know the MHz (was it even in MHz or was it stuck in Hertz?? :eek: )
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Same here — although the first computer I owned was 1.33GHz (;) ) this was the first family computer. It had a paint program, and I became surprisingly adept at drawing in the 3" green square with the cursor keys. :p The thing I really wanted though was an Amiga with Deluxe Paint II, as obviously you could draw that amazing Egyptian head in it. ;)

The Amstrad had an great 3D(ish) Batman game for it, but most of the games were along the lines of horse racing, which looked something like this:

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and as it moved across the screen it changed to this:


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and so it was running! In all it's green and black screened glory. Ah, those were the days. :D

Another amusing sideline was a wine bottle label program (our gaming entertainment was somewhat influenced by what my dad had on the discs) and typing in things like "Old Mr. Bum's Wee Juice" and seeing it come up on the screen as a wine bottle label.

Lau: Teeheehee!
Lau's brother: Shall we choose leaves or little wine glasses round the edge?
Lau: Ooh, leaves.
Lau's brother: <presses enter>
Lau & Lau's brother: Teeheeheehee!

:p
 
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