Cost/spec of your first PC

My first PC was a Tiny PC in 1999 and cost £1500 :cool:

P3 733MHz
128MB RAM (Upgraded to 256MB at some point between '99 and '02)
30GB HDD ( :eek: My friend didn't believe me :D )
Some onboard vga
17" CRT

My first build is the PC in my sig (had 2 more branded PCs before i learnt i was being ripped off :rolleyes: ) and my Nan still uses the Tiny PC :p
 
I think I bought my first PC in 1996 (I was just starting high school at the time) and secondhand/refurb it cost around £500 for:

P120
16mb Ram
850mb hard drive
1mb Cirrus Logic Trident
Soundblaster compatible soundcard
14" monitor

Not too bad a PC all things considered and lasted me a couple of years with thousands of games of Quake and Duke Nukem 3D in that time. :D
 
paradigm said:
No, its not a PC by definition, let alone todays standards.
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I always thought my Sharp was a pc....if it isn't then never mind. I'll call it a computer. :rolleyes:

This is quoted by the way...
Pop Quiz: What was the first personal computer?
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We'll make it easy for you. Let's define personal computer as a computer having the following attributes: It must be a digital computer.
It must be largely automatic.
It must be programmable by the end-user.
It must be accessible, either as a commercially manufactured product, as a commercially available kit, or as widely published kit plans.
It must be small enough to be transportable by an average person.
It must be inexpensive enough to be affordable by the average professional.
It must be simple enough to use that it requires no special training beyond an instruction manual...
 
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A true "PC" has to be IBM PC compatible, seeing as the IBM "PC" was the first "PC". Hence the sharp couldn't be a PC as it cannot execute x86 instructions.
 
I thought it was an IBM.... Tho I found out they were the 1st to introduce the prefix "PC" in '81. Apparently it was something made by Berkley Enterprises in 1950 called SIMON priced at $300.... :confused:
 
1995

P75
8mb ram
1gb hdd
think s3 2mb vga card
CD-ROM 2x
14" ctx crt
Dos 6 + win 3.11 :)
and a case with those turbo buttons :)

£1099

upgraded within 3 months to a P120 and 16mb ram yeh

got my first CD-R around then a 2x Philips for about £600 lol
 
jammir said:
1995

P75
8mb ram
1gb hdd
think s3 2mb vga card
CD-ROM 2x
14" ctx crt
Dos 6 + win 3.11 :)
and a case with those turbo buttons :)

£1099

upgraded within 3 months to a P120 and 16mb ram yeh

got my first CD-R around then a 2x Philips for about £600 lol
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I had a 'Turbo' button on the keyboard of my 1st PC...gad knows wht it was for....
 
all mine did was say Hi or Lo on a little display lol

this it was for the 486 DX sort of an overclock as my m8s used say 33 to 66
 
My first IBM-contemptible was an Epson 8086 PC in 1987 (probably). I think I got the RAM up to 2.5MB with an expansion card and it had two 30MB RLL HDDs.

The first PC I built myself was just after Xmas 1989 and was a 386sx16 with 2MB RAM and two 68MB full height 5.25" HDDs. For those of you who don't know, full height = two optical drives.

Can't remember the prices of either PC but I do remember the RAM for the second PC cost me £200.
 
My first computer was a gift for my 4th birthday, in 1984, Apple IIe with 64K memory and an 80 column card, monochrome monitor of course.

My first "PC" was in 1994
486SX 33Mhz, 4MB RAM, 512K ISA Video Card. Dos 5.0(Later upgraded to 6.0, then 6.2, then 6.22 as 6.0 was utter rubbish) and Windows 3.1. 14" monitor - Cost $1600 (I am American)
 
December 2004 :

Packard bell

P4 2.8Ghz
512MB
80 GB
15 " TFT
Radeon 9200
DVDRW
And speakers

Cost £1200 i think.
 
1999(ish):

eMachines
* Intel P3 Celeron 533MHz
* 32MB SD-RAM ( Later upgraded to 192MB )
* CD-Drive
* On-Board graphics ( Later upgraded to a TNT2 Pro :cool: ...then an MMX440 )
* 20GB HDD
* Windows ME

Cost around £700. She was a beauty :cool:
 
First proper computer was a Compaq Presario CDS860 from Byte computers. It had the following spec:

AMD 486SX66 (advertised as DX :confused: )
200MB hard disk (compressed with a program called stacker to make it 500MB)
1MB cyrrus logic graphics :D
3.5" floppy drive
4x speed SCSI cd-rom drive
Windows 3.1
13" 800x600 SVGA screen
Soundblaster 16
4MB ram (upgraded to 8MB)

£1999
 
£899, Mid 2001 (i think) -


Windows ME
Pentium 4 1.7GHz (Wilamette)
nVidia Geforce MX200 32mb (later upgraded to an ATi Radeon 8500)
17" Medion CRT (which i actually still use)
256MB 800MHz RDRAM (later upgraded to 512MB)
MSI 6385 Micro ATX Motherboard
Seagate 40GB 5400 RPM HDD
56k Modem
Philips 12x8x32 CDRW
DVD ROM Drive
 
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