What was your first ever PC?

I remember in those days when people said that upgrading your ram was the biggest performance boost you could get.

And today ram is almost completely meaningless for the majority of PC users :p
 
First home computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2

First PC was a:

MiTAC

P200
8MB RAM
S3 Virge VGA Card 2MB RAM
Windows 95b

14" CRT Monitor with inbuilt speakers.

£799 - ROFL
 
An Amstrad CPC464 with a green monitor. My mates all had colour ones on their Commodores and i was jealous as hell, even the only other one that had an Amstrad had the color monitor and the floppy drive in.
 
My first computer was an MSX. Strictly speaking it was my Mum and Dad's but I remember playing my first games on it.

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And my first console was an Intellivision. This was excellent fun way back when, and played many a game with my sister. 2 player basketball was excellent.

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Amiga (Commodore 64) - parents had boxes and boxes of game disks for this, me and my sis would play through them all when we were about 3-6~. So many awesome games, most of which were pretty disturbing for our age lol. I miss the beautiful clunky load noise :(

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As for PC, my own first one was a 166mhz pentium something that even had a green clock type display on the front telling everyone how awesomely slow it was.
 
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mame said:
That was quite a lot of RAM for a 386. I remember when people first started getting 486s, they were usually 4mb or 8mb.
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Sco had some sort of special contract with HP in the 80's and 90's where a ton of work stations were given for free every year, including development ones with pre release processors in them, which once they had served their original purpose tended to just loft about my dads old office, so who ever called dibs could take stuff home "to work from home" with :D

If nothing else it usually ensured there was enough left over machines to cannibalise for cool extras so as a kid (till I was 13 when sco ended their uk operations) I was never ever ram hungry. What a 386 would do with 16mb ram was beyond me but it was there. My p133 had 48mb which was amazing!
 
Commodore 64.

First proper PC was something like a:

Pentium 1 133mhz
32mb RAM

Can't remember the other components - it ran quake 1 beautifully though! :)
 
First actual PC was a Honeywell Bull 286
12Mhz processor
640k RAM
16Mb HDD
5.25" floppy drive
EGA monitor
 
was some Intel 286 machine with a turbo button - from 8mhz to 12mhz !!!!

ran on DOS 5.0 i think (?!?) and used Norton Commander alongside it.
 
An Olivetti with a 20Mb hard drive (which was big in those days). Played Digger and Golf on it and the graphics were amazing (or so they seemed).
 
I had a Spectrum ZX that I remember playing Frankie goes to Hollywood and Horace goes Skiing on.

I also had an atari 2600k console.
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This was my favourite game for the atari, Jungle Hunt:
 
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1982 - Atari Console
1984 - ZX Spectrum 48k+
1986 - Commodore 64
1988 - Atari ST
1989 - Commodore Amiga A500
1992 - Commodore Amiga A600
1994 - Packard Bell 486 25Mhz SX, 2MB Ram, 40MB HD - £999 :eek:
1995 - Compaq Presario - Pentium I 120Mhz - £1199 :eek:
1998 - Dan Technology - Pentium II 400MHz, ATI All-in-Wonder PRO 8MB, STB Voodoo II 16MB etc. - £1,200ish. :eek:

After that started building my own PC's with stuff from OcUK from 2001 onwards, using an ABIT KR7A motherboard- RIP ABIT :( with an AMD Athlon 1700XP etc (INTEL used to be crap then lol!)

Used to be on the old OcUK forums prior to this one, I didn't join the new forum till a year after it was established i.e. 2003 :)
 
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My first "PC" was a Purple shirt sourced abortion powered by a Cyrix M2 300.

My first computer was an Amstrad CPC 464 with the full colour monitor.

I started PC gaming when QAOP was the default control method for keyboard gaming, you WASD Noobs dont even know you are born, or something.
 
First one was a second-hand 386. Fond memories of that, was running Windows 3.1 and Dos, taught myself how to fiddle around with .bat files and config.sys!
Favourite game as a young teenager was the Lion King, was so impressed with the graphics...

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It was a Dragon32 for me... yes a Welsh computer. I loved it and bought a game each and every week for it with my meagre pay packet [I was 16], until support slowly dried-up after the company collapsed, at which point I went onto the Speccy 48k+

Great times.
 
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