First ever PC?

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By that I mean Pentium PC etc. (not commodore or atari)

I'll start, my Dad bought a Pentium 133Mhz (forget the RAM and hdd capacity etc.) (although 16mb of RAM probably lol)

What was your first PC?
 
Some Pentium III jobbie. Had a lot of fun with it. Can't remember the specs.

The first one I built was a Pentium 4. Radeon 9800 days!
 
Some Packard Bell Celeron 333MHz, 64Mb RAM, 8GB HDD thing.

Upgraded it with 128Mb RAM (total 192Mb!) and a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI GPU. Unreal Tournament, smooth as ****.
 
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Pentium? Modern tech, that! I remember a 486SX (I think), might have had 4 or 8MB memory...
 
500Mhz P3. One of the old slot-loader CPUs as well. Made by Tiny before they were bought out by Time and went bust. Before that it was an old 386 made by some long-defunct far eastern company (Ti'Ko?). Had a couple of Celerons, Athlons and Durons before I finally got something with a bit of grunt - Athlon64 3400.
 
Can't remember if it was a 486 or a P133, all I remember is being blown away by the original Quake even in non-3DFX mode :D
 
Amstrad PC 20386, 20MHz, 4MB RAM, 65MB HDD

Exactly this setup with the 5.25 fdd along side it, piggy back 14" monitor and the odd looking mouse:
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The original IBM PC was the first device I used, my first purchased was I think a 386 from Evesham Micros.

Too add, the first grown up machine I used was an RML 380z at school and then Torches and ICL minis at college.
 
Pentium II 266 MHz with an ATI Rage card with TV capability. Was special when I bought a Voodoo 2 card for it. :cool:
 
486 66MHz.
WITH DX2 CO-PROCESSOR
Major oomphage.
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Actually strike that. I think we had an 086 or 286, back in 84.
What would it have been at that time?
I remember I had a CGA monitor with it.
4 colours FTW.
 
Left home computing alone for a while after the 8bit days; my first PC was a Cyrix P150+, 16mb EDO (ditched in no time for 64mb EDO) and it had a huge 512mb hdd.
 
The first computer system I sold was in my 4th day as a salesman. It was an IBM PS2 with a Brother 1709 Printer and a copy of Windowmaker single user software. I think it was £4995 all in.

I'd arrived :D
 
I remember my 2nd computer had a 4GB HD and it was huge. Just about got Baldur's Gate installed on it which came on 7 CDs but then had to uninstall it to play another game.
 
First Pentium PC for me was a P75 based system with 8MB RAM and 1GB HDD.

First PC was a 386SX system, 33MHz I believe. 4MB RAM and 120MB HDD.
Then I had a 486DX with 4MB RAM and 540MB HDD before my Pentium one.
 
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