Roll back the year to 2000

My first proper PC was a pentium P1 150mhz, 16mb ram, 500mb hard drive, dedicated GPU with 1mb Ram, soundblaster card 14" crt monitor

All for the bargIn price of £1600.
 
Get a lot of extra though. Scanner, printer, camera, free internet and tons of software.

That's pretty much what my mum got in 1998 but with a 550mhz pentium and from TINY.
 
I bought a Gateway PC about then 1999 IIRC - my first fully my own Windows PC - before that I'd bought Acorn machines for myself and we had a family Windows PC.

Spent less than that on it though maybe £1000 - P3 500MHz, TNT2, etc. the only thing I think was less was the HDD I believe it came with a 6.xx GB HDD and I added another 13GB one as an upgrade.
 
First machine was a 486 DX2/66 with 4MB of RAM, a 545MB hard drive, a 14" CRT monitor and (I think) a 256kb Diamond Stealth graphics card. Ordered from ESCOM on Princes Street in Edinburgh when I was 17 with the money I'd saved from my weekend job at Texas Homecare. It was £1,146.52. For some weird reason I remember that. I also picked up a copy of X-Wing when I ordered it and had to look at the box and read the manual for a week.
 
I built my first pc in 1991. was going to uni and my Dad drove me over Battersea bridge in London to buy the parts (address from a mag), cost me £800 and I remember the guy asking me where I got the confidence to do it;

486 SX25 (25mhz no maths co processor)
4MB Ram
120 GB HD.
14 inch CRT

I remember the BUS ran at 33MHZ I think. I dreamt of a 486 DX2 66, but could never afford one.

I think I was on Dos 4 at the time.

Used to go to a hotel basement on Tottenham Court Rd every Sunday to scavenge upgrades from a fair held there.
 
got a time one specially made fro a magazine reveiw p3 550 256 mb ram tnt 2 ultra ,soundnlaster one of those feedback joysticks ,best part of 1500 quid but it served me well for ages
 
I got my first Windows system in 1999. P3 450, 64MB RAM, 8.4GB HD. 17” Sony Trinitron (probably the best bit)! On board graphics which nicked 8MB of the memory.

Was £1056 from Mesh. It was a revelation for me. Thing is, technology then seemed to be advancing at a blistering pace, and the extra performance would easily be used day to day, unlike today where even mid-ranked systems are well up to the job. That Time machine in the ad looks like it’s from less than 18 months on from when I bought mine, but looks better in almost every way for about £135 more. Duron processors were the cheaper brother of the Athlon, a bit like AMD’s Celeron equivalent.
 
Can't quite remember everything but a friend helped to build my first proper pc which was a P2 233MMX. Pretty sure I was rocking Windows 95 or 98, a Voodoo2 and may have even had 128MB RAM (which I seem to remember being horrendously expensive) and one of those quantum fireball HDDs.

It was all bought from a shop in Eltham and we ended up on quite friendly terms there - must have kept her in business between us!

I think the single most impressive thing I remember from then was playing "Lock On".

At some point onwards from there, force feedback became all the rage so I got a Sidewinder stick and a wheel. Bloody Great fun playing Rogue Squadron with FF!

Zip disks were great too!

Good times, the MSN gaming zone was buzzing and amazingly wasn't full of toxic morons. Direct multiplay over modem was a thing (Red Alert, Age of Empires). Now I'm getting all nostalgic. :(
 
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