What spec was your first PC?

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first pc was a IBM with a 286 processor, lotus challenge played well on that, first i built was an AMD Duron 850 with 20gig HD and 256mb Ram with a PC Chips ML810LMR motherboard :D
 
ah mine was a 468dx/33 win3.11 4mb ram and it had a cd rom drive and had encarta and a soundblaster card. i think it was cutting edge at the time :)... remmeber playing doom on it for the first time, was great
 
hi
386 sx 25mz ( without the maths co pro)with 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch disk drives , 20 meg hdd bought it 16 years ago for £1050 squid

cheers
 
First one I used was my brother's ZX Spectrum - used to play The Hobbit on it. Never really had any interest in them until much later.

The first PC I actually owned and which got me interested had some sort of Cyrix processor, 64MB RAM and a 6GB hard drive and ran Windows 95. I was a late starter.
 
Mine was a Tiny in 1997

Intel Pentium II 266MHz MMX
64MB PC66 SDRAM
6.4GB HDD
4MB AGP ATI Rage IIc
32x CD Drive
Onboard Sound
Windows 95
 
First PC (as in IBM Clone)

IBM, 8088 processor, whopping 5MB hard drive, 512K, 5.25" Floppy, Mono screen sexiness.

I still love my old AMD 386/40. Was a beast back in it's day... smoked many a 486SX.
 
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intel 200mhz
32mg ram
windows 95

thats all i can remember
 
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My first PC, after several years of Nintendo console games was:
Cyrix 233Mhz CPU
64Mb SDRAM
3.2Gb hard disk
Onboard sound
Onboard 4Mb VGA adapter using shared system RAM
14" CRT that was so curved I think the edges were trying to meet at the back!

No modem - had no hope of affording the £10 p/month internet access bill let alone call charges, so used an extra £30 budget to get 32Mb more RAM..... how RAM prices change!!!
 
IBM PC-XT;

4.66mhz intel 8086.
256K onboard ram.
20mb MFM winchester HDD. (Pre IDE)
720Kb 5.25'' Floppy
128Kb? EGA graphics adapter
12'' EGA monitor.

DOS 3.3 :) - And I still have the original manuals!

Same as this, but mine only had 1 floppy.

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Speccy 48k was my first computer. My first PC (in the modern sense) was a P166MMX, 16MB RAM and a 2MB ATi RageII card - one of the very first 3D cards. That was late 1997.
 
Mitac 486 SX 33Mhz
4MB RAM
250MB HDD
512k Video :(
14" CRT
DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1
100 floppies to back up the HD :D

Cost a bloomin fortune to put another 4MB ram, CD-rom & soundcard & a DX4 100 overdrive chip in it too (all to play doom) :p
 
some IBM that dad brought from work, had windows 3.1 & a lot of good games, no idea of spec thou.
1st PC we brought new was a Tiny internet starter pro with 650/700mhz athlon (thou it was sold as a P3, had no idea at time of purchase so said nothing), 10GB hdd, 64MB RAM, 52x CD ROM, 15" CRT all running ME
 
First PC i built for myself was a 486 SX2 50mhz with 4mb of RAM and a massive for its time 250mb HDD. Western Digital in fact.

Place i'm working now has servers older than some of the PC's mentioned, still in constant everyday use.
 
First computer I had/built was a ZX80

First PC I had/built was a 386 33 with 4gb ram, dos 5 and win 3.1. 45mb HD the size of a DVD rom and it sounded like a missile silo kicking into gear when you first booted. Had a monochrome monitor and no sound at first, then got a 12" colour monitor and an adlib card. Ahh the memories of playing Doom for the first time, a fully realised 3d game, truely a landmark in PC gainghistory and I was there! What went wrong?:(
 
IBM486 sx25

Then I went and upgrade to a 486 dx2 66 with 16mb of ram and a 100mb hdd 2 speed cdrom drive and a soundblaster 16 sound card and I remember doom looked amazing and well worth the grand it cost me including a 14 inch colour monitor :D
 
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