What was the specs of your first PC ??

Hotwired said:
A BBC Micro o.0

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Still got it somewhere.
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Oh the memories :)

I spent two years in front of one of those things at College 1984'ish. Mine had this Floppy disk pack that sat underneath.

That and games programming on a C64.
 
first computer, Amstrad CPC 464 green screen monitor, all games on tape :)

my first windows based PC was a 486DX2 66MHz Windows 3.1, voodoo graphics card, ESS AudioDrive Sound card, CD-ROM
 
Amstrad PC2086

8Mhz Intel 8086 CPU
640 KB RAM
VGA Graphics
30mb HDD
1.44mb FDD
740k FDD

Was a great system and I had all the classic dos games :) When Doom came out I convinced my dad to buy a new pc lol so he got a 130mhz 486 with 32mb ram which we kept till Quake 2 came out and I convinced him to buy a socket 7 system with a 225mhz IDT Winchip and 64mb ram. I seem to only upgrade systems when an important game is released lol

Quake 3: 400mhz K6-3, 128mb ram, and a voodoo 3d accelerator
UT2003: XP2000, 256mb DDR-400, Radeon 9100 Pro
Doom 3: XP2800, 512mb DDR-333, Radeon 9700 Pro
UT3 and current: Q9600, 4096mb DDR2-1066, Geforce 7900GTO
 
I cant remember the full spec.

I think it had:

Intel Pentium II @ 266mhz
Monster 3d GFX card
128mb RAM
10GB HD??

I remember that with a monitor was way over £2k
 
My old man used to bring a pc home from work during the hols and let me keep it in my room for playing games. Not sure on the specs really, was a 486 though and used it for playing DOS games like Prince of Persia, TIM, Gunboat, 4D Sports Driving, Commander Keen, etc. Always looked forward to it.

My first own pc was a Dan:

166MHz Pentium
16MB RAM
500MB HDD x 2
Diamond Stealth 2D VGA card
15" CRT
Soundblaster 16

Added a Voodoo 1 3dfx card when they came out and upgraded the monitor to a Iiyama Vision Master Pro 17".
 
Although I first had a Commodore VIC20, my first PC was an Olivetti:

386SX 16MHz
2Mb RAM
40Mb HDD (I had to uninstall games when I finished them to put the next one on).
14" CRT (The classic goldfish bowl 8) ).
DOS 6.2/Windows 3.1

Not the oldest PC on this thread, but close to it! :)
 
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NAME T 1200
MANUFACTURER Toshiba
TYPE Professional Computer
ORIGIN Japan
YEAR 1987
END OF PRODUCTION 1992
BUILT IN LANGUAGE None
KEYBOARD Full Stroke 82 Keys with Numeric Keypad Overlay
CPU Intel 80C86
SPEED 4.77 MHz / 9.57 MHz
RAM 1 MB (2 MB max.)
VRAM 256 KB
ROM 64 KB (Holds Memory Test and BIOS)
TEXT MODES 40 or 80 Columns x 25 Lines
GRAPHIC MODES 640 or 320 x 200 dots
COLORS Monochrome backlit LCD display 16 Grayscales (Blue and Green) / CGA compatible through external display
SOUND PC Speaker
SIZE / WEIGHT 12.1 (W) x 12 (L) x 2.9 (H) Inches / 11.5 lb (With HD) or 10.6 lb (With 2 FDD’s)
309 x 305 x 73 mm / 5.2 kg (With HD) or 4.8 kg (With 2 FDD’s)
I/O PORTS RGB color monitor port (9 Pin ), RS-232 serial port (9 pin), Composite video port, Numeric Keypad port, Centronics parallel port (25 Pin), External Floppy Drive, RJ-11 Phone Line Connector, HDD Power, 15V DC Laptop Power, Toshiba 8-bit expansion slot
BUILT IN MEDIA T 1200FB : two 720 KB 3 ½ floppy drives
T 1200HB : one 720 KB 3 ½ floppy drive + 20 MB Hard Drive
OS MS-DOS 3.3 or PC-GEOS
POWER SUPPLY Built-in rechargeable NiCad batteries / external 12v DC 2.2 amp power supply unit.
PERIPHERALS Optegra Numeric Keyboard

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=917&st=1
 
1st was a Commodore VIC-20, which still works except most of the tapes have degraded, the cartridges still work.

BBC Micro and BBC Master.

1st "proper PC". A 386 processor, can't remember the RAM, but it had a 40MB hard drive. Later upgraded to 250MB so I could install Wing Commander 2. I remember having use a memory emulator to change my expanded memory to extended memory, to get some games to run. If anyone knows Stak computers in Rugby, we bought this off them while the 2 guys were still operating out of their dads spare bedroom.
 
I can not remember my first PC (my dad's PC may be more accurate) .I was too small to understand what the number display on the machine mean. But it doesnt have a hard driver, it need a B-disk (it is as big as a CD) to start. It's more than 20 years ago...
 
Davola said:
P100. 16mb ram. 3DFX 16MB GFX CARD. 1.2GB HDD. win95.

Little Big Adventure and Duke3D were the games I played the most I recall.
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Either the system was out a few years when you got it or you spend a fortune on that graphics card. 4mb cards were stupily expensive when i got my system, i waited about 2 years before getting the matrox.

Are you sure you had a 3dfx 16mb card with a P100? When i got my first 3dfx card (Voodoo 2) i had a 10gb harddrive and AMD K6 2 450 and I think 64MB ram
 
Like some of the others here first computer was "BBC B", the use of coloured sprites was awesome, but was well jealous of all my friends with ZX Spectrums and games like Sabre Wulf and Jetpac etc.

Upgraded this to a Commodore 64 in July 1985 with my first months pay packet at work, then in later years progressed to Atari 512 ST and then Amiga 500 with Evesham Micro memory expansion kit !

Still have the Amiga in the loft and it was still working the last time I looked (although the colour has changed to a horrible "Nicotine Stained" shade of yellow).

As for first PC this must have been back in around 1989/90 perhaps, with a 386DX40 (AMD branded CPU I recall) 1meg memory and 80meg Hard Disk and Trident Video Card and 14" Monitor, the memory was shortly upgraded to 4meg and my fav game at the time was Lucas Arts X-Wing game, and later Dune 2.

I also remember upgrading the hard drive to the massive monster drive available at the time being the WD 500meg version at a stupidly insane amount of £300 !! I also vividly remember the wife (now ex) at the time having a massive spastic fit over this 'unauthorised' purchase as she hated computers and did not like me spending any money on them.

On a side note, when my daughter was born to get my own back I crafterly agreed the names for my daughter with my wife so that my daughters initials were "AMD", but I'm not an AMD fanboy, its just that having my daughters initials as "INTEL" would have been a little difficult to get under the wife's radar !

Diddy
 
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Gaming i guess was my Athlon Xp rig

Athlon Xp 2000+ (stock)
god knows what motherboard i was using.
1GB of DDR2 400 ram
and a Radeon 9800XT

Played BF2 on that rig fairly well lol.

Moved along to a 939 64 AMD Athlon 3500+
Nvidia 7900GTX
2GB of DDR2 400 Ram


Moved to this thing which is a Q6600 @3.19GHz
8800GTS SLI setup.
4GB of ram
 
my first pc was a pentium4 3GHZ oc'ed to 3.6 GHZ on stock heatsink, 1gb ram, ati 2600xt running xp it's was pretty powerful for the time, all pc's before this where bought by my parents.
 
the first pc i owned personally, was an 486 SX25 with 5mb ram, and monocrone vga monitor


i had previous pcs before that, but they were shared with my brother, which includes a 286 and 386
 
I remember firing up a demo of Doom on my aunties 486 and neally jizzed myself! Before I had only ever seen games like Jetpack, Halloween harry and some Amiga games.
 
Amstrad 1512 (512k ram!!!!)
CGA graphics
30Mb hard drive card

I played a lot of the SSI gold box series games. When Ultima 6 came out and I couldn't play it (needed 580k base ram) PC was upgraded to a packard bell 286 based machine with 2mb ram!
 
Guest2 said:
Either the system was out a few years when you got it or you spend a fortune on that graphics card. 4mb cards were stupily expensive when i got my system, i waited about 2 years before getting the matrox.

Are you sure you had a 3dfx 16mb card with a P100? When i got my first 3dfx card (Voodoo 2) i had a 10gb harddrive and AMD K6 2 450 and I think 64MB ram
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I was thinking either there were some fairly unusual/unbalanced specs out there, or perhaps us old folk are suffering slightly in the memory area thinking back so far (probably myself included). A 386 with 8MB ram when most were 1 or 2 - woah! Another 386 there, 16MHz, DOS, with a 500MB HDD! 486's with a mahoosive 16MB ram - I remember our upgrade from 4-8 on our DX2-66 was painfully expensive - 16MB must have been something like £500 of ram back then! And a DX2-66 with 32MB ram:eek::eek: A quad speed CD-ROM in a machine with a 20MB HDD. That 16MB 3DFX card in a p100 with 16MB ram above! Etc etc :)

Maybe we're just better at building balanced gaming rigs nowadays! Or perhaps I'm tricked into thinking specs are more consistent/balanced cos I only really look at enthusiast-built high-end gaming rigs. I guess not everyone has 4GB ram today - probably millions of machines still going strong with 1GB, 512MB or less even. And clock speeds just aren't rising as fast as they used to (cos they can't) so we're going bigger cores and multiple cores instead.

All good fun...
 
1st PC ever had was an IBM that dad brought from work with windows 3.1 no idea of spec, how I miss 3.1, never crashed

1st purchased new was a tiny internet starter pro from 2000(sad I even know the model)
~700mhz athlon,
64Mb RAM 48Mb usable as rest taken for graphics
10GB HDD (which I burnt out in just under a year then free upgrade to a 20GB how i was excited)
15" CRT,
CD-ROM,
Window Mistake Edition.
 
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