What was your first ever PC?

boxman2000 · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:01

Had an Amiga 600 and 1200

First proper PC was a DX2 66 from a mate

First built PC was a socket 8 Pentium Pro 166

Relentless81 · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:04

Atari 65XE

Mat · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:04

Speccy 48k before we got a 20mHz Amstrad! \o/

233 · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:06

spectrum 48k then onto a 128k and then an amiga.

first proper pc was a 486dx2/66

ChrisD. · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:07

IBM 8086.

Skidder · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:08

BBC micro model B, then a long gap

and then a 486 sx 25mhz 4mb ram, I added a cd drive and sound card to that bad boy

King Damager · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:09

Pretty sure it was a Pentium II, can't quite remember

kd

SoundsGood · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:11

I'm not as old as you lot.. My first personal computer was a 1ghz Duron, 256mb of ram, 1gb hard drive. First family PC was a 486 I think

Furbs · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:14

Amstrad CPC464 with.......... Colour Screen :O

Pestilence · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:15

Had an AtariST 520.

First actual PC was a 486 DX/33 with 8MB RAM.

Barry_H · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:18

wildman said:
VIC 20 by commodore, the predecessor to the commodore 64

I wore out the Jelly Monsters cartridge for the Vic 20.

What an old git I am.

The Dread Pirate · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:33

First ever PC was an elonex 386 is all i can recall however my first gaming station was the NES

buchtis · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:41

My 1st actual PC was a Pentium 4 about 10 or so years ago that I used to play Championship Manager on. Can't remember the rest though!

Edinho · 1 Nov 2011 at 10:48

PC was Pentium 3 450mhz 128mb win98 1999 came with a voodoo 3 3000.

First console was an Atari thing in the very early 80's

twist3d0n3 · 1 Nov 2011 at 11:05

first proper pc (ignoring c64) was a pII 350MHz, 64Mb ram, 8.4Gb HD, rage pro gpu; was advent (so purple shirt crap) that cost an absolute bomb!

Kosmiche · 1 Nov 2011 at 11:25

A pc with a 120mhz cpu from TINY. Remember them?

It could play red alert, destruction derby 2 and tomb raider so I was happy.

The noise the hard drive made on bootup was like nails down a chalkboard though.

mame · 1 Nov 2011 at 11:33

I also had an Amstrad CPC 464. The games didn't take 45 minutes to load, most were 4-8 minutes. I had quite a few games and the longest by far was Sultans Maze - 17 minutes. Talking of loading, I remember the multi-game packs where you had to first load the games 1 at a time and then write down the tape counter, so that you could later fast forward to the game you wanted.

Toxic Babyface · 1 Nov 2011 at 11:39

I had an Amstrad and an Atari when I was little. Good old days. My first Pc was a Pentium 75. The make was Olivetti and it was black. I was so excited with it at the time. It came with kings quest 7

pingwing · 1 Nov 2011 at 12:15

A HP ex development 386 with 16mb ram and a 25mb hard drive

That lasted me about a year and a half from the age of 3 till dad got me a better version of his monster dual pentium workstation (also a pre release development of the original pentium proc's which I wasn't allowed on despite having a cd drive and a sound card for unix...). My dual pentium work station was amazing as it was dual pentium pro (no idea which lab he nicked it from but sco at the time had these thrown at them) which was better but not my long term pc so instead I had hp vectra p133.

Warm memories of the vectra, that was 4 years of cd based gaming bliss (including finding out I knew more about windows than dad did).

mame · 1 Nov 2011 at 12:17

pingwing said:
A HP ex development 386 with 16mb ram and a 25mb hard drive

That lasted me about a year and a half from the age of 3 till dad got me a better version of his monster dual pentium workstation (also a pre release development of the original pentium proc's which I wasn't allowed on despite having a cd drive and a sound card for unix...). My dual pentium work station was amazing as it was dual pentium pro (no idea which lab he nicked it from but sco at the time had these thrown at them) which was better but not my long term pc so instead I had hp vectra p133.

Warm memories of the vectra, that was 4 years of cd based gaming bliss (including finding out I knew more about windows than dad did).

That was quite a lot of RAM for a 386. I remember when people first started getting 486s, they were usually 4mb or 8mb.