What spec was your very first PC system ??

Ha - I'd forgotton about the turbo button on the front of some machines.

My first in 1994 (had an Acorn Electron before that) from MESH computers:

486 SX25
4Mb RAM
170Mb hard disc
Cirrus graphics card - 256K (later upgraded to 512K !)

Time between receiving it and taking the case off and poking around inside : 5 mins!
 
Not that long since i got into pc's.

A64 s939 4000
Msi k8n diamond + sli board
2gb ocz platinum
Nvidia 7900gt
Enermax noisetaker 600w
Thermaltake tsunami dream
Viewsonic vx2025 20" lcd

Assembled by myself, still have the cpu though it's now in an asus a8n 32 sli deluxe with borked corsair ram, monitor is still in use as well.
 
AMD Duron 650Mhz (overclocked to 850Mhz)
Abit mobo
Voodoo 4 4500
Soundblaster 16 sound card
Netgear NIC (wasn't onboard!!)

Can't remember how much memory or hard-drive, except it was a Maxtor....

Oh, and a OCUK case with PSU.
 
Pentium 166
32mb EDO ram (4x8mb modules)
ISA Soundcard
Diamond Stealth 1mb graphics (2d)
14" Samtron monitor 1024*768 at 60 hertz!
Floppy
CD Rom
14.4 modem
1.2GB hard disk

I remember having to unnstal half-life everytime I wanted to play another game, it ran terribly anyway.
First upgrade was to a 6mb Voodoo rush that had horrific compatability and a 56K external modem.
 
I bought my first pc in 1999, spent about 500 quid for a modest gaming spec at the time. I cant remember the specs too well, had a 128mb gpu I think but it played AvP and Half Life well enough . . . good times.
 
I was late to the PC scene after having an a500, then a 1200 and then an upgraded
Blizzard 030 Amiga.

My first PC was a p150 overclocked to 166 with a 2mb gfx card and 32mb of memory, a 15" monitor, a cheap sound blaster 16 copy, CD drive and a floppy. I later added a Voodoo 1 card. I loved the PC and never looked back moving onto an AMD with my next build. I've flicked between AMD and Intel ever since - can't wait to see what Bulldozer will be like.
 
My dad brought this back when he went to america, and in the 80's. It is a personal computer, and it got destroyed by fire in the old house, he kept it in the attic and one day he said have it.
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1977/8, it had a rubber keyboard, and he gave it to me, never knew what it did cause I couldn't use it lmfao! it used to open up in two and had a cassette drive (btw when I was 10 or something I did get a commodore 64** if you were wondering with joystick.
Specs pulled of the web
CPU: MOS 6502, 1MHz
RAM: 4K, later 8K
Display: 40 X 25 text
built-in 9" screen
Ports: IEEE-488, cassette
parallel, system bus
Storage: Built-in cassette
OS: BASIC in ROM
It would still be able to run crysis 2 and and BF3 today. Guaranteed.
 
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ExecutorKevin said:
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sleek! and modern!

At least back in the 1970's, where turd-brown and lime-green were perfectly acceptable wallpaper colours. :D

Awesome pile of junk. There were hundreds of equally winning computers where my dad worked (France Telecom), until the day they upgraded the place and all that sexy 70's hardware with crummy Amstrads. ...Onward to the 90's!
 
robin66 said:
First PC I owned was an DX 486 at 25 MHz back in 93. Can't remember the rest of the spec's.

And the reason why I bought the above PC, in one word.......DOOM
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Never a truer word said there my friend. walked in to newsagent, walked out with pc zone and 16 page spread about Doom. 1 Week later lol ............

486DX-2 66mhz
8mb ram
200mb hdd.

Doom, legendary and on four floppies too :-).
 
The first one I built with my own money was:

Celeron 533
128MB SDRAM
Epox 440BX socket 370
ATI Rage 128 AGP
15GB ATA66 HDD
CD-ROM

Not a bad system for 1999, if a bit slow (no hardware T&L and a 66Mhz FSB processor).
 
olivier renault said:
sleek! and modern!

At least back in the 1970's, where turd-brown and lime-green were perfectly acceptable wallpaper colours. :D

Awesome pile of junk. There were hundreds of equally winning computers where my dad worked (France Telecom), until the day they upgraded the place and all that sexy 70's hardware with crummy Amstrads. ...Onward to the 90's!
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lmfao turd brown and lime greens!
 
Elonex

486 DX 25Mhz
8MB Ram
512 KB ISA graphics card
340mb ESDI hard drive
3.5 & 5.25 inch floppy drives
60mb tape drive

This was one of the first 486s. It was however 5 years when I was given it, however back in the day the gap between high spec PCs and low spec ones was larger. My dad had just bought an entry level PC (an AMD 486 DX4). Guess who had more memory?

The other thing that's really different is how much stuff is now built into the motherboard. In 1990 hard drive controllers and even serial and parrellel connections were not always integrated into the motherboard. These days we get networking, sound and often graphics.
 
The 80386 was launched in October 1985, but full-function chips were first delivered.

Had the 386 as mentioned there, didnt realise it was that early.. think I was given it when I was 8, so about 1993ish.. started with ms dos, no mouse of course and I think that was a 33mhz processor, dont remember the ram.. just remember having to uninstall and reinstall games every time I wanted to play a new one due to space.

Have a MASSIVE DoS 6.2 book somewhere aswell haha, how there was that much literature for that size of an OS I'll never know. I'm talking probably 3-4inches thick.

My first gaming PC was this beasty:

http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-pavilion-8562-piii/1707-3118-30051279.html

Was my grandads after he passed away, when I went searching for it then and found it.. I wanted to email it to my dad and say look lol but he died 2 years ago to heh. Nostalgia trip!
 
DX486 66MHz CPU
8MB RAM (Really pushing the boat out i was told)
540MB Hard Disk
4x CDRom

Cost about £1000, and i was so excited the day it arrived, could not sleep.
Bought it with some inheritance when i was 13, my brother wanted to buy a Go-Kart but my dad overruled him :)
 
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