How much did your first computer cost ( PC )

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Just thinking back to when I bought my first computer....It was for College work (good intentions and all that lol )

I bought it from an independent PC shop for the sum of £700, spec from what I remember were :-

Beige 14" monitor and AT case/PSU (monitor plugged into PSU)
Intel Celeron 300A Slot7 was it?
SIS 6326 graphics
32MB PC100 ram
4GB HDD
Biostar motherboard

It came with the usual software installed....
 
£949 - still got a scan of the original advert :)

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I remember mine distinctly because I blew my first wage packet from a real IT job on it LOL

P133 + 8 or was it 16 meg of RAM (probaly 8?) ? Awful sound card and 2d S3? graphics, keyboard mouse monitor and a super fast 56K modem = 700 odd quid.

Took it home and realised that it didn't have an OS on it - D'Oh I had a lot to learn about computer hardware
 
Year 2000.

About £1100.

PIII 600mhz (went like a bullet)
generic psu 200 - 250w I think
Nvidia 32mb video card (can't remember accurately what it was - Diamond Viper perhaps)
sound card 'I think' - maybe a Creative 5.1 sound blaster
mobo - not sure, maybe MSI
1.5gb ram
17" crt
20gb hdd Seagate iirc
Win 98 1st edition (nightmare)
CD drive
 
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First PC was a Pentium II in 1999 but was provided on a scheme similar to Access To Work (disabled scheme) for my university course. So I didn't get to see what the invoice was.

2nd PC was a Thunderbird 1400MHz, the last of the true-speed AMD processors before they became "XP" speed in late 2001. Rest of the components were - A-bit motherboard, 512MB RAM, Geforce 2, 10GB, 20GB and 40GB hard drives, standard beige case and 300-ish watt PSU. Cost came to about £500 from local PC shop before I knew about OcUK. Had a CD-ROM as well but soon added a CD burner.
 
I got it free from IBM under a apprenticeship scheme my employer was working with them on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/1

Still remember it had ace build quality, switches had a very satisfying clunk noise :D

Mine was the 2133 model got it in 1993.


Had a spectrum etc before that obviously but this was the first MS-DOS/PC-DOS based PC I owned.
 
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£999 - it was a VTech (don't they make kid's toys?) 486 SX 25Mhz, 4MB RAM, 100MB HD. Yeah bitches, that's how old I am.
 
My dad got it from his guy at work on the cheap called Conrad, I think it was R4500 which at the old exchange rate probably around £700 or £800 in 1997

p133mhz
16mb
4gb hard drive

A few years later i spent R2000 on a 4x cd writer. About £200.
 
Tiny computers - £1400.

PIII 450Mhz, 128mb RAM, 13G HD, DVD-Rom/CD-RW, 17" CRT, some nVidia TNT card, either 16 or 32mb.

I also had a Matrox 32mb in there too that can do triple monitors towards the end of its life.
 
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My first Windows PC that was entirely my own cost £1034 - from Gateway 2000.

P3 500
128MB RAM
32MB Riva TNT2
6.8GB Quantum Fireball HDD
Windows 98
17" Gateway brand CRT.

Before that I had a P1 166MMX w/ ATi Rage II+ 3D + Voodoo 1 but was paid 50/50 by my dad and myself. Previous to that we had various flavors of RISC OS based computers and even earlier a 286.
 
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£999 for a Time Machine with a Cyrix 166+ processor, 16 meg of EDO ram, a 2.1 gig HDD, 14 inch monitor and integrated everything else.Bally awful thing really.
 
Bunch of younguns here.

£1400 got me and my mum (we went halves on it) a Compaq

486sx25 is about all I can remember but it had one of those new fangled CD drives on it. 1x speed too :)
 
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