What spec was your very first PC system ??

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What spec was your very first PC and if you can remember what year and price/s was it ??


Mine was

intel 200mhz@233mhz mmx CPU
about 32mb ram
2MB ati rage II display card
voodoo1 4mb 3D card
3200MB harddrive (if i remember right)
Really crappy beige case with built in PSU
17" Iiyama Vision Master Pro Diamondtron monitor
Creative 4.1 speaker system

Can't remember which soundcard i had

Cost me over £1000....year was about 1997
 
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If we're talking PCs that you paid for yourself:

Pentium II 400MHz
128MB RAM
10GB HDD (paid extra for this)
DVD-ROM drive (paid £100 extra for this!)
17" CRT monitor
Lovely beige box!
Windows 95 - but it arrived with the newly released Windows 98 on it!!!
Office 97

Paid just over £1600 for it from Tiny in 1998 I believe. It ran Heretic II so beautifully. Added a Pace PMC 3d Edge 16MB graphics card later to get a TV-out socket, then ran a 15m S-Video cable down to the TV downstairs to watch DVDs. Hilarious switching screens - one person downstairs watching the TV shouting "up a bit, left, right a smidge, click!".

First PC I played with was my Dad's Amstrad PC1512 though. Don't remember the full specs, but I do remember:
512Kb RAM
No HDD
2 x 5.25" floppy drives
CGA graphics adapter (4 whole colours on screen - count 'em!)
DOS

When it came to playing games, my Spectrum 128K +3 kicked it's behind. :)
 
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no idea i was a kid then inherited a computer something called cyrix m2 or something.

Then it died on me and I built a AMD duron computer around 500mhz range.
 
My Beast - My 1st ever build absolute beginner - scared

AMD K6 300
128Mb of Ram
Voodoo banshee 16mb video card
8gb Hard drive.
Windows 98
hideous 2nd hand Hitachi 17" CRT.
The ghetto case i bought came with a random PSU... IT worked i knew no better

Was awesome for Couterstrike and TFC... Played it from beta2 lol - Remember running guns back to the spawn points so your team had them next round?? :)
 
Intel Pentium 2 - 233mhz
128mb RAM (Pro at the time)
30gb IDE HDD (Very pro at the time)
Some random case, we all thought it looked uber awesome at the time.
Cant remember the PSU
It had a CD/RW which again was very pro
20 something inch monitor, that was very pro!

Pro System was Pro.
 
1.86 Ghz celeron
512mb ram
400w psu
matx case
60gb hard drive
dvd drive
windows 7
880gs

only cost me 20 for the graphics card, i got the rest from people upgrading for nothing
 
eMachines 180
Intel Celeron R @ 1.8 Ghz (slowest processor in the WORLD)
128mb RAM (but I added 512mb to speed it up making a total of 640mb)
40 GB HDD (again another upgrade by adding an 80 GB HDD)
Intel Express Integrated Graphics chip (I think!)
CD-ROM
Windows XP

It was quite possibly the slowest thing ever. I rememeber getting a really bad virus on it which meant I had to reformat. After that it never seemed to be the same. 10 minutes to load up and even then Internet Explorer would STILL take another 5 minutes to load the webpage on my 28K (Yes! 28k!) Dial up connection.

Computing in the stone ages. Wasn't perticularly enjoyable to say the least.
 
Does a ZX Spectrum count in about 1985? think it had 48k everything (manic Miner was a maga game!!!!), then commador 64, amstrad something, then the beast which was a an IBM486 (cant remember any specs, was around 1991/2)
 
The first machine I had which was mine, (as opposed to the family's BBC B and my Dad's 6Mhz 286) was:

486DX 33Mhz
4MB RAM
245MB Harddisk
Cirrus Logic 5426 video card
2x CDROM
Sound Galaxy ??? (8bit Sound blaster pro clone)
14" CRT monitor

Upgraded it to 8MB for £100+vat and eventually to a 486DX2 66MHz when a friend upgraded his box for £20. Also remember picking up a second hand 250MB harddisk (which was obviously was pulled from an office machine and came completely unformatted) which allowed me to dual boot Win95 Beta and Slackware Linux.
 
8086 XT with a 20 something MB HDD. (edit, might have been an 8088? I'm not sure, can't find the machine on google images).

After this I had a 386.
 
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God you're old. Mine was a hand-me-down P4 laptop :p

Really though, i wish i had the chance to play with those 4, 8 and even 16 bit computers i keep hearing about. I might build one just for the crack ;)
 
It was a gift at the age of 9 I think, when I first started playing with DOS.

The first PC I built and I considered mine was an AMD system, I can't remember the CPU exactly but I think it was a Sempron 3200+ if there is such a thing? I upgraded it to a chip that normally lived in laptops and overclocked it somewhat, 2600+ possibly? That computer and chassis has turned into my Sandybridge system over the years however I doubt I still have any of the original parts. I think my soundcard is my older component at around 5 years.
 
cyrix p166+ 4mb ram 120mb hdd win 95 14" screen with Matrox Mystique 2d and Diamond Righteous 3D Orchid 3DFX card can remember tombraider after adding the 3dfx patch
 
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I persevered with Amigas far too long, from a standard A500 up to a fully blinged A1200 with a 68060 and all upgradable chips upgraded. Lovely piece of kit, but it couldn't play Half Life.

So, Pentium II 450 it was, briefly with some awful All-in-Wonder graphics card before getting a lovely pair of SLI'd Voodoo2s.
 
386SX 16MHz(!!!)
4MB RAM(!!!)
VGA Card @ 16 colours
5.25"+3.5" floppy drives
14" CRT
no sound
no cd

Crazy stuff lol

First PC I pair for myself though was a P100 system with 64MB RAM I think - can't really remember that one
 
RM Nimbus setup, so long ago now I can't recall what else I bought with it.

I had a BBC B+ but I didn't buy it myself, my mother bought it for me for xmas one year and it was the guts of 800 quid for a BBC B+ lol
 
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