What spec was your first PC?

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Solari said:
my 64k RAM pack for my CPC owned - I got games with speech samples... wooo!
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Ha! - my first computer was a Spectrum 48k 'Squidgyboard' - which playing Spectrum Chess if you made a wrong move would say

Invalid move - which sounded more like In-ver-lid move - always used to summon up pictures like this



With me
 
Hmm.
Amstrad CPC464 with colour, yes! colour monitor!
Amiga 600, then went
386 18mhz with 2mb ram (I think?)
486-SX33 (No co-processor!)
Pentium 200MMX 32mb ram (Overclocked to a 233MMX via dip switches!)<- upgraded from 16mb ram with a 1gb HD and Win95. Had various upgrades such as a voodoo 3dfx card etc.
Athlon Duron 800Mhz <-- started to build from scratch here.
Athlon XP1600+
 
Pentium 3 450mhz
128mb RAM
13G HD
nVidia TNT 16mb
CD-RW
DVD-rom

Was bloody cutting edge ! That was back in 1999, at that time (or for a few years after) not many PC came with a separate GFX, cost me £1,400. I still have it, but now it's just a doorstop.
 
All I can remember is that it was an Olivetti and at one point my mum spoke about buying a mouse for it. I only cared about its ability to play Space Invaders and Frogger, but then it was 1988 and I was 4 :p.
 
First computer was a zx128+

First pc was an Olivetti PCS40, sx25mhz, 120mb hd, 4mb ram, 512k oak video card, no sound, no cd-rom, win3.1 and dos 6.
My parents bought it for me to do my college work on, i was more interested in getting it to play games though :D
 
packard bell pc

333 celeron
64mb ram
integrated ati rage graphics
6.4 gig hard drive
cd rom


Back then compared to the pc's i did course work on it was blazing fast, got it december 1998 if i remember right.
 
I had a ZX80, a Sam coupe and a Spectrum +2

The first nearly IBM Compatible PC I had was probably my RM nimbus Pc-186, which had a whopping 196k of RAM and a 20mb Hard disk.

After that I had an olivetti 486 SX-25 with 4mb of Ram and an 8-bit soundblaster card and a 14inch CRT. I think it had 80mb hard disk and a 9600 baud modem. I remember loads of kids suddenly wanted to be my best friend because I had the fastest computer in the school. :)

My first self built computer was a P166 with 16mb Ram and a 2.5Gb hard disk which cost me £200 just for the hard disk. It had a 16mb Voodoo banshee card and I got a free copy of half life with it. I overclocked it to 200mhz too.
 
I had a Dragon32 when they 1st came out in 1982, spec -

Processor- Motorola 6809E @ 0.89 MHz - lol
Memory- 32KB
Operating system- Microsoft Extended BASIC


Beast!:)
 
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I can't remember the first one I had, just remember we had a family computer that was running Windows 95. The 2nd we got is still downstairs. 512mb ram, 2.8GHz P4 (I think), and an nVidia 5200GTX or something graphics card, 160GB hard drive. Still going strong, and never had a problem for like 5 years.
 
Vonny said:
I had a Dragon32 when they 1st came out in 1982, spec -

Processor- Motorola 6809E @ 0.89 MHz - lol
Memory- 32KB
Operating system- Microsoft Extended BASIC


Beast!:)
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Yeah, had one of those too. Nice processor for the time, some sort of 8bit/16bit hybrid if I remember correcty (16 bit addressing I think).
 
Earliest family PC that I remember was an Elonex 486. Used to play TFX, Aces Over Europe and Doom... multiple floppy disk installation, ahhh. I think we upgraded to some Pentium machine which played Red Alert at some stage.

My first PC was a Compaq laptop: P150 MMX (I insisted on this!), 16Mb RAM, 1.6Gb HDD and I think a 12" DSTN screen which blurred like anything. Pretty sure it managed Quake 2, but my favourite had to be Carmageddon.

History then went:

Gateway P3 500, 128Mb RAM, 15Gb HDD, TNT2 32Mb
Started properly tinkering between these two machines.
Mesh Athlon XP1800, 256Mb RAM, 40Gb HDD, GF3 Ti200 64Mb
Self build Shuttle with Athlon XP2500, 512Mb RAM, GF4 Ti4200 64Mb
Then to current machine as below

Didn't realise how many machines I've had. I did a lot of chopping and changing of spec with the older Athlon machine.
 
Cambofrog said:
Yeah, had one of those too. Nice processor for the time, some sort of 8bit/16bit hybrid if I remember correcty (16 bit addressing I think).
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The Motorola 6809 is classed as an 8 bit processor, but like other 8 bit processors of the time it did have 16 bit addressing, could pair two accumulators to give a 16 bit register, and have a few other 16 bit registers.

I'm much more familiar with the Zilog Z80, which could pair six 8 bit registers to give three 16 bit, as well as two full 16 bit index registers (which with undocumented commands act as four 8 bit registers too!) and a 16 bit address bus.
 
My dad had an Amstrad 286 that I used to play price of persia on.

My first PC was a 486DX2, 2MB RAM, 40MB HD. I think I might even still have it somewhere.
 
Wrathamon said:
Not often I see someone on here mention they had a SAM Coupé!

I still develop a heck of a lot for them - see my webby at http://www.samcoupe.com/ to see the sort of stuff I come up with for them :)
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EEEEEEh, I remember as a lad, going to Asdale (became Asda) and buying Sinclair User and another mag, who's name escapes me for a mere 75p. I remember all the hype at the time fronted by Sam the Robot.

Ahhh, memories.
 
Wrathamon said:
The Motorola 6809 is classed as an 8 bit processor, but like other 8 bit processors of the time it did have 16 bit addressing, could pair two accumulators to give a 16 bit register, and have a few other 16 bit registers.

I'm much more familiar with the Zilog Z80, which could pair six 8 bit registers to give three 16 bit, as well as two full 16 bit index registers (which with undocumented commands act as four 8 bit registers too!) and a 16 bit address bus.
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I was probabably comparing it to the 6502 processor (can't remember if the 6809 was later or not) where AFAIR you had to mess with a "page register" to address the full 16 bit memory space.

On the 6809 you could do 16 bit addressing much more directly (again AFAIR, it's along time ago :D).
 
The first PC that was actually mine was an eMachines - Celeron 633MHz, 64MB of RAM, 15GB HDD, Intel graphics, DVD-ROM and Windows Me. It was my Christmas present in 2000 from my parents, managed to convince my Mum to get me a 17" monitor (impressive at the time), to go for the 64MB RAM model (the one below it was a 550MHz with 32MB of RAM :(). Also got the PC World guy to throw in a decent Logitech keyboard instead of the crap OEM one, and to give a discount on an MS IntelliMouse Explorer optical mouse. Upgraded the graphics with a GeForce 2MX 32MB DDR PCI graphics card in January, and upped the RAM to 192MB in April/May.

To be fair, that machine lasted me three years, so it did quite well!
 
The family had an old IBM in the early 90s with Windows 3.0.
My older brother had a Commodore Amiga 500.

My first computer was a Time in 98. Athlon K6-2 450Mhz, 64Mb SD RAM, 10.1 GB HDD, 8Mb ATI Rage Pro, DVDROM, 15" CRT. Cost over £1k I believe.
 
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