First ever PC?

darkgen · 3 Feb 2014 at 22:13

Freefaller said:
Yeah - setting your config.sys and autoexec.bat files to load things in to HI MEM and so on to free up base memory - that was always a challenge!

Dos 6 eased the heartbreak but you wouldn't get that till 92 (93 officially).

darkgen · 3 Feb 2014 at 22:17

d_brennen said:
First one I used was a BBC Micro, first I had a home was a 486 Zenith with 8MB of RAM!

Aye, many a good times down the Royal Horticultural halls for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron Shows!

Lumeycom · 3 Feb 2014 at 22:19

first was a 286 of some sort, pretty sure I still have it up the loft somewhere and I bet it would still work

Bigpops · 3 Feb 2014 at 22:27

I bought and built my first PC in 1997. I used an Amiga A1200 to browse the web and IRC before that.

It was:
Asus intel TX chipset motherboard.
AMD K6 233MHz MMX
3.2GB HDD
Matrox Mystique
Soundblaster AWE 64

I can't remember how much memory it had but it was on a DIMM. I have a feeling it was 32MB. I know I had 64MB by the time Windows 98 came around.

CSMonkeh · 3 Feb 2014 at 22:47

My first computer was built by my mate. Don't remember the full specs but here goes:
-AMD Athlon 650 MHz overclocked to 850
-Voodoo 4 4500!
128mb RAM (I think)
Had SOOO many fans sounded like a jet engine when it was fired up lol

B&W · 3 Feb 2014 at 23:08

486 sx 25 mhz. 4 speed cd rom lol. 14" viglen monitor. I think 2mb of ram and 0.5gb hard disk. later upgraded to a quantum bigfoot 2.1 i think. cant remember the graphics. played chuck yaeger great though.

GTanny · 3 Feb 2014 at 23:38

my first pc
486 66mhz,
4mb ram and 100mb hdd (i think)

only used for premier manager 95/98 and the ski game that was on windows

first family pc was a packard bell 400mhz with 32mb ram and a 400gb Hdd.

Nursie · 3 Feb 2014 at 23:59

Housey said:
my first purchased was I think a 386 from Evesham Micros.

Ooh snap but a 486 instead. Went halves with my brother, think it was about £1500.

Philtor · 4 Feb 2014 at 00:01

First ever PC was an Amstrad 6128 Plus. Just looked it up on Google images and brought back some great memories

airwave99 · 4 Feb 2014 at 00:06

First ever computer I bought was a 1987 IBM PS/2 Model 50. Cost me £20 in 1996 and still works to this day.

valkynaz · 4 Feb 2014 at 00:19

My first desktop PC was a prebuilt from a lesser known pc builder in 2010.

CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 560 BE
GPU: XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770
MoBo: Asus M4N68T
Case: Xigmatek Asgard
RAM: 4GB Corsair XMS3 1600Mhz
HDD: 500GB WD Green

That's the specs I remember. I then started upgrading it the following year (GPU > CPU/MoBo > Case) with parts from OcUK to get the build I have now:

CPU: Intel i5 2500k
GPU: Asus Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II 2GB
MoBO: Z68X-UD3H-B3
Case: Corsair Carbide 400R
RAM: 8GB Kingston HyperX 1600Mhz
HDD: 1x 2TB WD Green, 1x 500GB WD Green
SSD: 128GB Crucial M4

Got myself a nice rig which I am proud to say I built myself.

foster grant · 4 Feb 2014 at 00:22

Dimension c521 AMD Athlon64 x2, 2 Gigs of ram , 320 Gig HDD and a 20 inch monitor...still have the monitor actually

UTmaniac · 4 Feb 2014 at 01:09

Socket 133A mobo
Some Athlon cpu i cannot recall
Nvidia GTS 2(?) gpu, 64MB
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Iiyama Vision Master Pro 451 (that lasted at least 10 years)

Efour · 4 Feb 2014 at 05:12

AMD k6-2 350mhz
128mb ram
voodoo banshee

tearing up CS beta and HLDM

cainer · 4 Feb 2014 at 06:24

From Time computers in 2001

AMD Athlon 900mhz
40gb HD
TNT 2 graphics but i swapped it straight out for a 64mb Gforce 2
19" CRT
128mb RAM (100hz) but i swapped that striaght out for 256mb (133hz)

Skidder · 4 Feb 2014 at 06:41

486sx 25 with 4mb ram, 120mb hdd

I added a cd rom which was amazing

Duke · 4 Feb 2014 at 07:01

markyb said:
Yeah the Cyrix was terrible. No floating point performance which made it useless at everything!

Duke, did you get all of the "Award" pack of CD-ROM games with your Escom PC? Like Dawn Patrol, Zool and I ton of others - just trying to think!

Hmm don't remember that no

We had ours in for repair and almost lost it as they went under that week.. had to get in the shop and get the machine back at short notice.

Ur round next · 4 Feb 2014 at 07:35

Packard bell P1 cant remember the Mhz but I know it was under 100
300MB HD
16MB of ram
1 of the Voodoo cards running windows 95
Cost £1300

Who can remember Microsoft comic chat lol

Hades · 4 Feb 2014 at 07:38

Aptiva 486 DX266

nIckEl101 · 4 Feb 2014 at 07:45

a 486 dx2 66Mhz pc with 8 meg ram and a matrox gfx card.

I remember having to writescripts to reduce the base memory usage and enable extended memory to play games!