Post your first pc's specs!

Before I owned my own PC, I was using my dad's for a number of years (mostly gaming) and he had a number of different spec machines, ranging from the Pentium MMX, Pentium II, AMD K6, and AMD Duron. My first pc I owned was a Hewlett Packard 667mhz machine, which performed slower than a Pentium II.:p I couldn't wait to replace it, and when I finally did, I build my first PC which consited of an Althon XP 1900, 256mb ram, and a Geforce 2MX or Radeon 9000.:cool:
 
sHo0sH said:
It was from a company long gone called "Tiny"

Penitum III 600mhz
20gb HDD
128mb Ram
Windows ME
17 inch CRT

... I think it was about £1000 at the time
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Mine was very similar.

Tiny were about in the same league as Time PC's which I think were a PC world speciality not sure.

Anyone remember having to configure and choose the sound card for every single game
 
P2 300 mhz
64mb RAM
ATI rage
Windows 95
15" CRT

Made by Viglen.

At some point I put a voodoo 3 and a cd burner in there.

It used to run quake 2 at 80fps or something. Those were the days. :p
 
Gtiracer said:
Tiny were about in the same league as Time PC's which I think were a PC world speciality not sure.
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Time was the trading name of Granville technology who sold by mail order. They bought the Tiny chain when they went into administration as a cheap way to get into retail, then Granville themselves went bust a couple of years later. Neither company had anything to do with PC World/DSG.

PC World did buy Byte who sold mainly through concessions within Staples/Office World (I forget which as they merged) back in the late 90s.
 
First computer was a ZX81 (I think - I was young and we had a lot of computers in the 80s - some for not very long at all - my father would buy one and if he spotted something he liked more it would go and be replaced)

First intel based PC? That was a 20MHZ 386. 80MB HD - 2MB Ram - made by a company called Mulitplex I think...
 
This was about 1993 and was really happy with it for a year :) I remember playing some good games on it.

486 SX25
2mb ram
200 mb hdd (seagate effort)
Panasonic cd-rom using some sort of scsi interface
Trident isa vga card
soundblaster pro
cheap dlink network card with bnc only
dos 6
windows 3.11 for work groups
VGA CRT monitor (some unknown rubbish)
3.5" floppy drive
 
Mine was a Compaq presario

intel MMX 166MHz
16Mb Ram
20GB HDD
graphics and sound - no idea
15" monitor
3.5 floppy

cost around £1400
 
AST Advantage!

Intel 486 DX2 50MHz
4MB Mem
Cirrus Logic 1MB
270MB Seagate HDD
2x CD-ROM
Creative SoundBlaster 16
14" AST CRT 640x480 60Hz (or 1024x768 43Hz Interlaced! o.O)
 
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