How much did your first computer cost ( PC )

I haven't really stopped building my first proper PC
It started with a few bits which I acquired for free or cheap about 4 years ago when i think i spent about £100 including windows and it has slowly all been replaced up to the value now of about £1100 I have spent on the current components. Now i'm going round again and updating more bits over the coming months

I don't really count my old compaq :p
 
My first 'proper' PC was just under £1000 even came with a colour monitor (and very basic Windows OS), it was an Amstrad PC1512 (with double disk drives...wow!)...
 
The first pc I purchased outright was £1500

Pentium 166MMX
16Mb RAM
8Mb crappy video card
8x CDROM
2Gb hard drive
Extra PCI LPT port for scanner
Crappy no name mobo
Colorado Jumbo 120Mb Tape drive
Awe 32 ISA soundcard
15" monitor


Prior to that I was renting one from radio rentals

It was an Olivetti and was a P100 with 4Mb ram, 800Mb HDD and a quad speed CD drive
 
Around £400 of dads money :p

It was a second hand colossus 486sx 25mhz pc. Got it around 1994ish from a guy who worked in the newsagents in banff. Some English chap basically stole it around 1999. He said he would fix it and then moved house :( Kinda miss that old piece of junk, fond memories of playing simcity 2000 and destroying the windows 3.1 install (accidentally ofc) :D
 
~£1500

486DX 33
4MB
245MB HD
VLB Cirrus Logic 5426 graphics
Sound Galaxy NX Pro (8bit Soundblaster Pro clone)
2x CDROM (interfaced through the sound card)
Goldstar 14" 1024x768 monitor
MSDOS 6.2 + Windows 3.1
 
My first PC was custom built to my spec [Jan 1997]

P166
Asus motherboard with pipeline burst cache
32MB Ram
2GB hard drive
12x CD ROM
Creative Labs AWE32 sound card
Matrox Mystique GPU 8MB
US Robotics 33.6k modem
HP 820cxi printer
Sony 17" Trinitron monitor (£800)

£3000

It was pretty much built from every top part in the 'A List' in PC Pro mag. looking back it was very silly to spend so much but it was fun at the time :)
 
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I used to sell PC's in the 80's and bought my own Zenith laptop around 1987, which was an end of line model that looked similar to this one.

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I paid £200 for it (which back then was a steal) and within 2 weeks sold it for £1200 to a customer for his lad to use at University.
 
Nothing, it was a gift for being made redundant. The second was bought second-hand for (IIRC, it was a long time ago) about £150. The next was also second-hand for about £400. The first computer I bought new wasn't for about a decade after that, and was a £750 laptop.
 
It was a P166MMX machine from Watford Electronics (I can mention them now they've gone, right? :) ) and it was late 1997. I actually can't remember how much it cost now. Think it was around 800 quid.

The first PC I had at work was in 1990. Was a 386 with co-processor, digitization tablet, and some "cutting edge" design software (2 fonts and a few colours!)....and I remember it was a touch over 10k :eek:
 
About £1200 for the following PC from a long defunct indy shop back in 2000.
17" CRT ( free upgrade )
1 Ghz AMD T Bird ( free upgrade from 800Mhz T Bird )
32mb NVidia GeForce 2 gfx card
Epox mobo with onboard sound
128mb ddr
20gb hdd
CD Rom
Windows Millenium ( the OS from hell )
 
95ish
Pcworld, when they still quoted prices before vat
Windows 95
Pentium 133 and cant recall much else about it
With he pc a printer keyboard etc, i think the folks paid close to 2000 pounds for it
 
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