Post your first pc's specs!

Turb3k

Turb3k

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As the title says the first ever pc 'YOU' owned, not your dad or brother.

Ill start....

486 SX-25mhz
16mb EDO RAM (a lot at the time)
840mb HHD
16bit sound blaster
Windows 3.1
256 colour CRT monitor (i think)
 
This might be better in general hardware :P
But mine are:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
4GB DDR2 800MHz
Zotac GTS250
1TB HDD + 30GB SSD
Zotac Mini-ITX 775
Silverstone SG06
Samsung 20" LCD

Was mid 2009 I think :)
 
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Mine was in '95
486Dx33
4mb ram
500MB HDD
15" monitor
Sound blaster 16

But, First Family PC was Commodore PC-30 (in my room so was always called mine)
286 @ 12.5 MHz
20MB HDD
14" EGA monitor
and a genius mouse.
DOS 4.01 no windows for the first few months...
Bundled with Menace by Psygnosis
:D
 
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AMD Slot A Athlon 650Mhz
128MB RAM
1GB HDD (I think)
16MB GFX Card (again I'm pretty sure)
Win-dings '98

At the time that was the ****...
 
A64 4000 s939
Msi k8n diamond plus sli 32
2gb ocz pc3200 ddr
Xfx 7900 gt
Samsung dvd rw
Enermax noisetaker 600w psu
Thermaltake tsunami dream case
Viewsonic vx2025 20" lcd, (still have this)
Windows xp 32

Came pretty late to the party. As previously i was a console only gamer. Built the rig mainly for mohaa.
 
I was too young to remember the full specs of my first one, although it was Pentium Pro 133mhz based I know that much :p

The oldest one I remember was:

AMD Althon XP (1.4GHz I think) Socket A
128MB Ram
40GB Hard Drive
nVidia GeForce 2 64mb
CD-RW
DVD-ROM
Windows XP Home (Bought it literally weeks after XP came out)
LG Flatron 17" CRT (Amazing screen, wish I still had it)
 
Mine would have been :

Apricot 486 33.
4MB Ram.
no idea what the HDD was, possibly 20GB.
Soundblaster AWE32
Win 3.1

First stuff I worked on was IBM AT & XT kit and WANG PC's.
 
In the process of building it!!

Intel i7 2600
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3
16GB Corsair RAM
Coolermaster Silent Pro 600 Gold
60GB SSD
500GB/1TB WD Caviar Blue/Green
 
Philips with 80286 12.5MHz Intel CPU
Floppy drive
40Mb hard disk
1 Mb ram (640k + 384k extended)
14" 640 x 480 VGA monitor
256kB graphics
MS Dos 5
1990 spec, £900
 
Well proper PC would be this
Intel C2D E7500
GA Random Board think EG41 or some such
2Gb unbranded DDR3 1066
Onboard graphics
500Gb HDD

Before that was a C2D Macbook Pro 2007, Powermac G5 Powermac G4 etc etc lol
 
Some of these spec's are making me remeber my school days, when my mates had family 286's, brings it all back! You just cant believe how far pc's have come in just 15years!
 
486 DX2 66
Win 3.1
200mb hdd - later 500mb
16mb RAM - later 32mb
forgot what vid and soundcard
14" Elonex fish bowl screen lol.
Did run windows 95 and 98 reasonably well though!
 
Things sure have moved on since then:

486 SX25
4mb ram
100mb hdd
dos 5.0
VGA CRT monitor (13"?)
3.5" floppy drive!

Before the days of cdrom, soundcards, modems and Windows 3.1
 
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I was 37 when I bought the 286 listed above. I used the office wang with winchester drive, dot matrix printer and two colour screen so I wanted something a bit state of the art for home. Philips was a consumer brand so it looked quite neat for a 1990 PC. It even had the CPU on a daughter board, something relatively unheard of then, for proposed upgradeability. It also used 72pin dimms when most were using 4 banks of 30pin dimms.
I learnt an enormous amount about memory configuration, working in such a tiny amount. How to disable programs in memory when they were no longer required and using specific segments to avoid conflicts.
 
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