What was your first ever PC?

I had a zx spectrum +2 but my first proper pc was

A Pentium 166mmx overclocked to 266

yeah i overclocked my first pc. had to upgrade my motherboard to do it though cos they one it came with was a pos that was stifling my performance in Quake.
at the time the fastest processor was a 233 so i was pretty smug for a few months. actually i don't think you could get anything faster until the pentium2 came along (not counting AMD)
i was extra smug due to a mate of mine being unable to overclock his factory 233 processor.
 
These weren't mine, but:

ZX Spectrum with Tape Loading...
Then a Sinclair QL,
Then a 486sx25, 4mb RAM (upgraded to 20MB Later), 512K Video (I think), 100MB HDD. Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.
Then a P200MMX, 32MB RAM and a 4.3GB Hard Disk. Loaded with Windows 95. I owned Battleship and Red Alert which I played on it.

My first PC was my Grandad's old 486sx33 with 4mb RAM (Up to 12mb) and a 250MB Hard Disk and a 1MB Video Card. Still have it now in the cupboard and this isn't counting my Megadrive...
 
486 - DX266
4mb ram
250mb hard drive (I was told I would never fill it)

After about a year I really went to town and upgraded to 8mb ram (£100). It ran Sim City 2000 like lightning after that and I didn't need a boot disk to run Doom anymore.

Then I got the holy grail and upgraded to a CD drive and a sound card about a year after that. It was a bit of a nightmare as Windows 3.1 did seem a bit confused by exactly what a CD drive was, but I got there in the end.
 
Pentium 266 with Diamond Viper and a Voodoo 2 add-on card! 64 Mb Ram
Aaa, those were the days... Bought it to play Unreal 1!
 
My first machine was a laptop my dad bought me, 1.1Ghz P3 with 512mb of RAM. He chose a CD burner over a DVD player which I was a little disappointed with at the time. It actually still works but you could cook a roast dinner and eat it before it loaded Windows.

I'm in my mid-20s, not quite a PC relic by the standard of most posts here.
 
Joint family pc was a 386.

First own pc was a celeron 400mhz, 96MB RAM and a 16MB Nvidia Vanta.
 
First computer was :

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Commodore Plus/4

Pretty ****** and crap for games

First PC was a loaner - ICL DRS M30.

8086 8MHz CPU
640k Base Memory
20mb RLL HDD
720k Floppy
256k VGA Graphics
14" Colour VGA Monitor
PS/2 Mouse & Keyb
MS-DOS 3.30

:D

My own first PC (bought for me) :

AMD386SX-25MHz
1mb RAM (640 + 384)
Oak 067 256k VGA Card (up'd to 512k with DRAMS myself)
40mb IBM IDE HDD
1.44mb Floppy
MS-DOS 5.0

Upgraded it with a modem (Dowty Quatro 14.4k), Sound Media 2.0 sound card etc.
 
Energizer Bunny said:
486 - DX266
4mb ram
250mb hard drive (I was told I would never fill it)

After about a year I really went to town and upgraded to 8mb ram (£100). It ran Sim City 2000 like lightning after that and I didn't need a boot disk to run Doom anymore.

Then I got the holy grail and upgraded to a CD drive and a sound card about a year after that. It was a bit of a nightmare as Windows 3.1 did seem a bit confused by exactly what a CD drive was, but I got there in the end.
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Almost same as you, 486 DX250, 4mb of ram and 20mb hard disk

DOS6.2 Win3.1, upgraded to a CD drive and a sound card about a year later and DOOM/X-Wing were my first games ever
 
Went to Tottenham Court Road Computer Exchange (now known as CEX) in 1992 when they first opened & £600 later (that was a lot of money back them :eek:) was building my 1st genuine PC. 386DX40 2MB Ram!!! 20Gb HD!!!! VGA card with 256KB!!! WFGW3.11/IBM DOS5.

CEX in those days was a fun place to hang out as it was the 1st PC shop for gaming enthusiasts in England I believe. Used to be a great guy & founding co-director called Paul Farrington who was very helpful/knowledgeable (sadly he went missing diving of the coast of Cornwall in 2000 & is believed to be dead).

You could walk in to the place on a saturday morning & 4 hours later still be talking to the people who founded it & were staffing it whilst giving them your wallet contents. Great place back in the day & I am sure partially responsible for the surge of interest in UK PC gaming at the time.
 
A lovely beige 286.
Gotta love playing Battlehawkes 1942 with a mouse (bit odd for a flight sim) and then years of loving adventure games. In fact I still play the Indy and Fate of Alantis.
 
First computer was a commodore vic 20 then an amstrad cpc 464.
First pc was a compac 486 dx33 with 4 mb ram god i loved playing doom on it. :)
 
redline said:
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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Dragon32 for me too dude, then I went Commodore 64 as Speccy's were for inferior people.

Cuthbert in the jungle/goes walkabout/the pornstar... was awesome.

Ok i made that last one up.
 
First PC I bought from scratch (rather than from parts I'd begged/borrowed/stolen from friends) was a PII-350, 128Mb Ram, 6GB HDD, and a ATI Expert 98 8Mb AGP card.

I remember people asking me "what I'd do with all that RAM and HDD space".
Was great spec system when Halflife came out :D
 
Skidder said:
and then a 486 sx 25mhz 4mb ram, I added a cd drive and sound card to that bad boy
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Snap! Mine was an "Ambra Sprinta"... will never forget it :p Added a Sound Blaster 2 (was about £200 :eek:) and a 4x CD rom drive.

Before that, C64 with tapes and cartridges :p And of course a subscription to Zzap!64 :D
 
Other than the ubiquitous rubber keyed Spectrum, and an Amiga 500+ which I played Sensible Soccer '92/'93 season on religiously, my first PC was:

486 DX-33MHz, 4MB RAM and a 512MB HDD. I remember spending about £150 to upgrade to 8MB of RAM and a DX2-66MHz chip...

I also vividly remember my first 3D card - a 4MB Voodoo1, which must have cost nearly £200 at the time!
 
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