First ever PC?

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Escom Pentium 75, with 8mb Ram and a 1GB hard drive, also had a 2mb Graphics card and a CD-Rom, 15" CRT monitor... all for around £1000.

The good old days! LOL
 
First family PC:

Pentium I 90MHz
16MB RAM
1.21GB HDD
Onboard graphics
Soundblaster 16

First "my" PC

Pentium 2 266 MHz with MMX (tm)
256MB RAM (later upgrade to 512MB)
10GB HDD (later upgraded to 20GB)
Originally had a Voodoo card of some type (can't remember which), that I later upgraded for a Geforce 2 MX400 with 64MB

Hardcore gaming yo!
 
Burnsy2023 said:
That's quite big for that era. I remember I had 2 x 500MB drives in my P120.
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Really? To be fair I think the CPU was slightly under spec for its time (1997). I remember seeing 133's and 166's at the time, and Intel's MMX ad campaign was all over the TV :D
 
BBC Micro was my first computer.

If OP means first machine that was running some form of MS OS then it was a 286 with MS-DOS 5 and, later, Win3.1.
 
Family bought a PC from a local shop in '92 :
486SX 25MHz
4MB RAM
105MB HDD
Trident 9000 graphics (ISA, and a bloody awful card at that)
14" Samsung Goldfish bowl monitor.

First one I bought - when I moved out and went to Uni a couple of years later I picked up an IBM PS/2 Model 80 for peanuts from my mate's dad's work. 386DX-20, 8MB of RAM, 6MB of it on an MCA expansion card. Had a Model M keyboard, should never had let that one go!
 
P2 200MHz MMX
32mb ram
2gb HDD

for my birthday

and for Christmas that year had some sort of gfx accelerator card and an extra 32mb Ram so that I could play the largest maps on Total Annihilation :D
 
Olivetti PC-1: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=182&st=1

NAME PC 1
MANUFACTURER Olivetti
TYPE Home Computer
ORIGIN Italy
YEAR 1988
BUILT IN LANGUAGE None
KEYBOARD Full-stroke 82 keys with 10 functions keys and numeric keypad
CPU Nec V40
SPEED 4.77 / 8 MHz
CO-PROCESSOR Yamaha custom chip
RAM 512 KB (up to 640 KB)
ROM Unknown
TEXT MODES 40 x 25 / 80 x 25
GRAPHIC MODES CGA graphic modes : 320 x 200 / 640 x 200
COLOrsc 4
SOUND Tone Generator
SIZE / WEIGHT 39(W) x 31(D) x 9(H) cm.
I/O PORTS Centronics, RGB monitor and TV, RS232, Mouse, Audio, Floppy disk, Expansion connector
BUILT IN MEDIA 1 or 2 x 3.5'' 720 KB FDD
OS MS DOS
POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply unit
PERIPHERALS Expansion box
PRICE $639 - £399


Followed swiftly by a Hyundai 386SX

Show my age? :>
 
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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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Seeing Quake 2 with coloured lighting, and Unreal with fog and smoke... Jaw hit the ground... PC gaming was never the same again.
 
633mhz intel p3
256mb of ram I think.
crappy onboard gfx.

upgraded the motherboard (no agp slot_ and bought a gpu 2 weeks later.

a friend of the missus was supposed to do the upgrade for me but didn't turn up for 2 weeks at which point I had done it myself :D

for how long I have been a PC guy I have upgraded very little.

633mhz p3 > xp1800+ > amd x6 1055t > haswell 4670k
I think, might be skipping something early on
 
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robfosters said:
486 DX4100
4MB RAM
540MB HD
14inch monitor

£1056 :eek::eek::eek:

Even worse, then remember paying over £100 for a 4MB upgrade.
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ditto

486 with math co processor... i can't remember how much RAM..I'm sure it was in kb not MB.. can't rememeber. I had to boot to from a DOS floppy disk to play Football Manager until I performed the same upgrade on the RAM.. :D

Before that i had a one from work which i believe was one of the early IBM PCs. I know it cost a fortune. No idea what is was though.

First computer.. ZX of course :)
 
Can't remember my first ever pc, it was a second hand average thing.

This was my first ever build though...

ATI Radeon HD4870 x 2 PCI-E graphics card 512MB
AMD Crossfire ready Motherboard suitable for the above
AMD Phenom 2 965 Quad Core Processor 2.4Ghz
4GB DDR2 memory
120GB SATA Hard drive
40GB SATA Hard drive
Sony DVD RW 16x
 
Think our first ever PC (really cant remember the name of it) was one of these ones with a 5 1/2 floppy drive (the ones that really were floppy) although was quite young then, really cant remember much about it although did have some games.

My first proper windows PC was a Windows 3.1 Pentium 486, which I then upgraded to Windows 95

The PC was purchased for a ridiculous amount if I remember correctly, over £1k

Upgrade costs were through the roof.

I do remember buying my first 56k modem for it though woop
 
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Olivetti PCS 40. 486 sx25mhz, 4mb ram, 120mb hd, 512k video card, 3.5inch floppy drive. It cost more than my current rig! My parents bought it for me to do college work on it, it wasn't long before I started installing games on it though.
 
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