First ever PC?

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my first PC (pentium 75)was from radio rentals :D
i'd not long left school and only been working a month or two and i seen encarta running on one of their pc's and i just had to have it.
 
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My 1st pc was in 1997 and i had a Pentium P166 mmx, 8mb ram and a 2gb hard disk, which I soon overclocked it to a P233mmx. :D

Remember the days of overclocking with jumper pins!!! :p

Cost £1700 from tiny computers!!! :eek:

Oh forgot the graphics card was a 128 or 64mb Riva tnt 2.
 
Some Dell GX1 second hand base unit with a low end Pentium 3 slot processor (can't remember which one) and 128MB RAM which I later upgraded to a whopping 384MB. Speedy! :cool:

Then bought a new Dell tower unit with a Celeron 1.8 skt478 CPU with 256MB RAM and 80GB hard drive. Then upgraded it to 1GB RAM and 2x160GB drives. Much speedy! :cool:
 
itchy said:
Cost £1700 from tiny computers!!! :eek:
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I remember Tiny computers back in my school days. Their junk mail leaflets used to come through the door with the local newspaper and I would drool over them but had no money to buy one. That and Time computers also :D:o
 
wannabedamned said:
386 running Windows 3.1

I rememer putting Windows 95 onto like 50 floppy disks inorder to install it....

Didnt work :D
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I remember getting Windows 95 to run on a 386SX with 4MB RAM, despite the box saying it needed a 386DX. Was painfully slow so it was no great loss it didn't work for you :)
 
The first PC we had in our house was a P1 133MHz! with 16MB ram and a 1GB HDD running windows 95.

First PC I self built was an Athlon XP 2600+ with 512MB ram and a geforce 5600 256MB with a HDD of about 80GB.
 
I can't remember my first PC - it was a Compaq and fairly top end for whatever was going in 1997.

Acorn Electron was my first computer though - I didn't want a Spectrum and we couldn't afford a BBC B. Those long days playing Elite in black and white...
 
Cyrix 6x86-P166.

* 256MB RAM
* 1.2Gb HDD
* 1.44Mb floppy
* CDROM
* Win 95

It was the shizzle! Ran Diablo like a boss.

:D
 
November 1994
AST Desktop PC
50MHZ DX2
4MB RAM
40MB HDD
SounBlaster 16
Windows 3.1
DOS 6.22

Cost £999.00

I started College in September 95 and some time after that I asked my dad if we could upgrade to 8MB RAM. But he did more than that he got another 8 and so I had 12MB RAM. It cost £200.00 I seem to remember and then a little bit later I got a DX4 100 chip from a lad at college, it clocked in about 87Mhz though as the motherboard wasn't up to it. However until Pentium came along I had the beast machine among all my mates.

Doom, Tie Fighter, Duke 3D.....simpler times....amazing times though...
 
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Then I spent a grand on something with a geforce FX5200 in it <.<
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i bought one of those for my first self build. i knew nowt about hardware but i was impressed by the shiny box and i thought because it cost £50, it must be able to play games. how wrong i was.... :(

after getting burned like that, i learned to how research stuff and i bought my first proper graphics card from OcUK - a powercolor 9800 which flashed to PRO. that was a great card for hl2 which had just come out. :)
 
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after getting burned like that, i learned to how research stuff and i bought my first proper graphics card from OcUK - a powercolor 9800 which flashed to PRO. that was a great card for hl2 which had just come out. :)
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Did the same, great card.
 
Amstrad 512k.
Intel 8086 at 8MHz, 512K memory,
We had paid a lot of money for an upgrade to the 10Mb hard disk.

It supported dual 360K 5.25" floppies.


Later some one gave us a huge math-co processor but it didn't seem to make a Big difference.


I still remember playing commander keen in glorious 16 colors.
 
Evesham Vale
486sx - 25Mhz
4mb RAM (later upgraded to 20mb)
105mb Hard Disk
Adlib 2 Soundcard
512k Video Card
SVGA Monitor 1024x768 MAX RES
DOS 5 and Windows 3.1

Frequent Memory Parity Errors however, which got worse and worse as the machine got older and eventually we binned it.

Second was a DELL P200MMX with Windows 95, still got that machine. :D
 
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