First ever PC?

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Mat said:
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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I had the exact same looking system, except mine was the earlier PC 2086 model, only a 8MHz CPU with 640KB and mine had been upgraded with a 27MB HDD and 1.44MB floppy drive in the right bay to accompany the standard 740KB floppy in the left bay.
 
TopOfTheWorld said:
Can't for the life of me remember specs but I can remember flicking the red switch on the back of my PSU, I was not a smart child.
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That reminds me of something about my first PC. The on/off switch was a fairly sizable red lever, about an inch long and half an inch wide. A serious switch for a serious computer! It had a clock speed display on the front of the case, too...which wasn't in any way connected to the actual clock speed. It was an LED segment display set by jumpers on the back of it. So of course I changed the jumpers to make it read '99'. A joke, of course - the idea of a 99 MHz CPU was very silly. 33MHz was the cutting edge, at huge expense.
 
Can't remember really, First one I paid for myself was an AMD K6-2 with a 20GB hard drive.
 
First PC that was mine and not my dads, was a 286dx with 2MB yes 2MB of ram

For a 286 2MB was a massive amount it had a full length card in a dedicated slot full of ram chips.
 
AST Advantage!

Intel DX2 50MHz
4MB SIMM Memory
270MB Maxtor Hard Disk
1MB Cirrus Logic Graphics
Creative Sound Blaster 16
2x CD-ROM
1.44 FDD
14" CRT 640x480

Came installed with Windows 3.1 with a custom AST skin over the top. MS Word 3.0, MS Golf and Encarta '97 :D
 
ubersonic said:
I had the exact same looking system, except mine was the earlier PC 2086 model, only a 8MHz CPU with 640KB and mine had been upgraded with a 27MB HDD and 1.44MB floppy drive in the right bay to accompany the standard 740KB floppy in the left bay.
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Why did the mouse have to have that "bar" between the buttons? Did Amstrad think people were unable to prevent their fingers from moving around so much that they hit the wrong button?!
 
Packard Bell P60 hand me down.

1st one I bought was a 2nd hand 233, with an S3 Virge and 3dfx Voodoo 2 :D

Then from that to a Time AMD Thunderbird 1400 with 512Mb :cool:
 
How's this for a kicker... My Dad's old work place had the very first type of Apple Computer and they just chucked it out in a skip... he wishes he'd have kept it now, think they're worth a fair bit!
 
I bought my first pc which was a 286, I think it ran at 12MHz and had a staggering 2mb of ram and a 20Mb harddrive. It even had a 16 bit graphics card. What's sad is that most of you won't even know what a big deal that was! :p
 
Amstrad 386sx 25Mhz, 4Mb RAM 80Mb Hard Disk!
Still got it somewhere minus the screen as that died. Not sure if it would still work:p
 
Angilion said:
The most memorable upgrade for me was when I bought the original Voodoo just after it had been released. The only thing that used it at that time was the demo that came with it, which was a flyby of a tower. I gawped at it and phoned a friend, gibbering at him. He came over, gawped at it and went straight to the shop to buy one. It was that much of a change.
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Haha, same with Voodoo 2. I was stunned by the explosions in the bundled games G-Police and Incoming :cool:
 
PII 400Mhz
128mb RAM
Voodoo 2 FX Gcard
8gb Hard Drive
4x CD-ROM Drive
17" CRT Monitor
56k Modem

BEAST!!!!...back in the day! :p
 
Mitac Pentium 120MHz with 16MB of RAM. Oh, and a 1.2GB Hard Drive!

Next machine was a Pentium 3 500MHz with 64MB RAM, 8GB Hard Drive.

After that, an Athlon XP1900+ w/ 512RAM self build, with a dodgy Soyo Motherboard that forever crapped out for no reason!

Then a Celeron 2.8GHz self build. Rock solid :)
 
You know I remember the first time I played games on my 486DX2.
Terminator Rampage.
Rebel Assault
Return to Zork.

And then later on the likes of Xwing, Tie Fighter etc etc.

Man, why dont games interest me like they did back then :)
 
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