What spec was your first PC?

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You will not need more than 640k of ram EVER :)

ho ho ho


still have nightmares about shunting stuff out of the lower 640 to get games to run
 
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You will not need more than 640k of ram EVER :)

ho ho ho


still have nightmares about shunting stuff out of the lower 640 to get games to run
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Meh I seem to remember having a couple of boot floppies for different reasons, one of them being gaming... :)
 
Had to laugh, at least one reply here is a PC better than the one I use day in and day out.

First computer Dec PDP 11 at schol circa 1973

First home computer ZX 81

First PC Amstrad PC1512 Twin 5.25 floppy, No hard drive, No sound, 4 color CGA graphics, Ahh those were the days.
Think it was 8088 based with 512KB RAM
 
Had a ZX81 and Amstrad CPC 6128 although they aren't PC compatible.

First PC in the house was a 486 SX-33 with 4meg RAM and 300meg(?) hd my dad brought home from work.

First laptop was a 386 16mhz with 4meg ram and 100meg hd that I got through special needs at school. Mostly used for playing Championship Manager '93 (very slowly - used to take a minute or two to process each round of fixtures!)

First 'proper' pc that I was able to upgrade etc was a Cyrix PR200+ with 16meg EDO RAM, 2.1gig HD and a 2meg Cirrus Logic 5446 SVGA card. Came with Quake pre-installed, which has a lot to answer for in my life... :)
 
Ex-BT Zenith 386 SX16, 4 x 1mb 30 pin SIMMs, built in 512kb graphics, 40mb HDD and a floppy drive. Had enough space for Windows 3.11, or a game.

This was about the time PC Format were advertising the 1x Matushita CD readers where the whole drive ejected and popped up, needed it's own IO card and I think it cost about £250 for the kit.
 
I was always Amiga (500/1200) until I went to university in 1995. There I met my first PC. A Viglen 486DX2/66. I spent many an hour playing Civilization and Doom on it. When I got home in the first Christmas holidays, we took my A1200 to a shop in Crewe and sold it. Then I bought a Viglen Pentium 120MHz with Windows 95. That was my first IBM-PC.
 
First PC that was actually mine ...

486DX33
4MB Ram (upgraded to 8MB for £100+vat)
245MB Harddisk
2x CDROM
Cirus Logic 5426 VLB graphics
Sound Galaxy 8bit SB Pro Clone
14" Goldstar monitor (1024x768NI)

Still have it around somewhere :)

Before that in the house we had a BBC B and my Dad's home machine from work, (a 6Mhz 286 on a prototype motherboard, 14MB of memory (which could only be used as XMS not EMS), EGA graphics (with full length daughter board of memory - 256kb?), 20MB harddisk, 3.5" and 5.25" floppies, and of course a Model M keyboard ... all in a XT (not AT) case, (this was an old prototype lab machine from a large well known company)).

The 286 could just about run Windows 3.1 with the harddisk capacity increased using Stacker or just plain DOS, (Indy Jones and the Fate of Atlantis in EGA graphics for the win!). The 486 originally ran Windows 3.1 but after the memory upgrade and the edition of another 250MB disk ran Win95 beta and Linux in a dual boot configuration.

:)
 
Cyrix P120+
8 meg RAM (which was upgraded to 16mb, then to 40mb)
Didn't originally have a sound card, that needed adding later
800MB HD
Windows 3.11/DOS 6.22 (I refused to move to Windows 95 :D)
2mb ISA Graphics card (which I soon learnt about when I wanted to play games) - upgraded to a Diamond Viper V330

My mate had a Intel P133 and his games used to fly, then he went and bought a PII 450 - i'm not having this I thought and saved up for the parts to build my own AMD Athlon based pc... ...With a IBM Deathstar... sorry Deskstar because I was young and foolish and thought if I bought IBM i'd be safe. This was the beginning with me falling out repeatedly with IBM kit over the coming years...

Currently running an AMD Athlon 2200+ - I don't really play games now though.
 
Had two before this one but first I remember properlt is

200Mhz IBM, 32mb ram, 2gig HDD

I used to play cs/tfc on that :/ although the hdd was so small I could only install one at a time :P
 
There seems to be a lot of first pc's here which are super fast compared to my first pc!

First actual computer was a ZX Spectrum + which was actually my sisters but she hardly used it, so I did! Later I got a ZX Spectrum +3.

First 'proper' PC was an Olivetti PCS 86 bought from one of my dads mates. Slimline looking desktop with a pretty good Olivetti VGA monitor. NEC V30 CPU at 10mhz - soldered straight onto the board so wasn't removable. 640kb ram expandable to 2mb iirc, Double Density 3 1/2" floppy drive, 20mb MFM/RLL hard drive. Didn't even have a bios - you set everything with jumpers! I did later on put an 8 bit Soundblaster in which gave proper music and sound - I couldn't believe it! Was a bit of a pain to set up though, I didn't know anything about irq's and things back then! Dos 3.3 was the O/S.
I thought it was a 80286 rather than a plain 8086 which I only worked out when I tried a few game demos on the front of magazines only for them to tell me I needed at least an 80286 to run them. Sold it on a year or so later I think to the same bloke that I bought it from - for the same money, bar the Soundblaster!

Built a Cyrix 486DX2/50 based pc with 4 MB ram after that which was an incredible speed increase! :D
 
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Oh christ knows, we went through about 8 before we got a working one, it was the cheapest pc about from a local company who later got sued 6 times for copyright infringement in their names, barely ran 98, 32mb of ram or something stupid it was.
 
First computer was a ZX81.

My first PC was an AMD K6 233mmx, 16MB RAM (may have been 32MB, im not sure), 3.2GB HDD, Matrox Mystique GFX, Soundblaster AWE64, and a 24x CD-ROM. I had an external serial 28.8k modem which i had been using for about a year with my Commodore Amiga A1200.
 
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