What was the specs of your first PC ??

Intel 486 SX 33MHz - no coprocessor for floating point functions!
4MB RAM
HDD - I don't remember, but it wasn't big.
MS Dos 6
Windows 3.11
14" VGA monitor
3.5" FDD
no CD. DVD did not exist.

The above PC cost approx £1000 back then. And was a budget pc. The PC was not a commodity in 1994.

Or else a Commodore 64 if we're counting pre-IBM PC
 
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Patriot prebuilt
Intel Pentium 500mhz cpu
17” monitor
128mb ram
13gb hd
Savage pro 32mb agp
Windows 98 se

I still think of it fondly, never let me down. Only parts I have left are the hd and copy of windows, most of the rest went to repairing other pcs. It cost £500.00 new ….. bargain at the time cos a famous high street retailer that is a vindaloo sent me the wrong pc. The one I ordered had much poorer spec… shhhh .. don’t tell them ;)
 
First proper win-tel PC.

In 1993 £799 in old money bought you...

Footprint Computers (They were a bunch of boxshifters from Southampton, I think.)

AMD 386sx/33 - Apart from three very early dalliances with Intel, I've been AMD for life! Bro.;)
2MB Ram - I dread to think what type it was. :D
40MB Hard Drive - Seagate? Whatever it was I messed it up using DriveSpace compression.
256k Windows Accelerated graphics card. Cirrus Logic?
PC speaker sound. :o
14" SVGA monitor, in beige
Keyboard and mouse, in beige
1 x floppy disk drive
1 x turbo LED.

Windows 3.11 & DOS 6.22. Much love for these two bits of software. :cool:

First games played..? Either Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix, or M1 Tank Platoon. Either way, MemMaker was probably involved.
Sold her for 200 notes. I was a fool!
 
Going by the "PC meaning personal computer, no matter the platform" thought (which is correct), my first system was an iMac G3 tray-loader. 233MHz G3, 4Gig HD, 32MB memory, ATI Rage IIc, Mac OS 8.1.

As for PC meaning Windows PC...see sig :D
 
486 DX 33mhz (Had to have a co processor back then!)
4mb ram.
20mb hd.
SVGA video card.
Double speed cd drive.
Soundblaster.
Dos 6.2

Basically it rocked!

Good times.
 
Hotwired said:
A BBC Micro o.0
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Haha I remember this one. Although I never owned one this was the first computer I used on a regular basis. Also the first one that I "programmed" on - if you count typing in from a book as programming. Had to start from scratch every time as I had no way of saving. Later we got an external floppy drive which made life so much better:)

First computer I owned was some sort of IBM compatible XT with no hard drive 2 floppy drives and a wopping 640k memory. This is where I started programming, and you really had to consider memory usage back then!
 
486 DX2-66 with 32mb running win 3.1 200mb hdd. I'm 27 so started a little late compared to some relics here :p
 
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First family PC was a Time Omega (we had two of these in a row)
Intel Pentium 150+
16MB EDO RAM
1.3GB HDD
15" Monitor
Serial Mouse and Keyboard
Some battery operated speakers
Floppy & CD Drive
Windows 95

My first "personal PC" which was still partially shared
AMD Duron
128MB SDRAM
ATI Radeon 7500 64MB
Beige and silver case
15" CRT
40GB HDD
CD Drive + CDRW
Floppy drive
Windows 98SE

Proper PC all to myself
Black and Silver case with matching speakers, mouse and keyboard
AMD Athlon 2400+ 2GHz
256MB DDR RAM (Upped to 512)
nVidia Geforce FX5200 128MB
80GB Hard Drive
DVD Drive + Floppy drive
Windows XP Professional
17" Relisys 1280x1024 Black and silver CRT
 
Intel 386 SX16 16MHz
4MB RAM
40MB HDD (DOS 6.22 & Windows 3.11)
Lovely beige case
8" Monitor
No sound, no CD drive, just a 3.5" FDD
 
mine was a 486 dx4 at 33 Mhz (18 with Turbo OFF)
4Mb RAM (i think...)
One week into it fried a disk (no idea why...)


I only remember that i begged for an upgrade to 8MB Ram so i could play Sensible Soccer (wouldn't run with just 4....) my god....
 
Amstrad 64kb thing with a tape drive build into the keyboard it were awsome .. i was 3.. when i got it and i still have it now.

Actually PC i had a IBM or cyrex or something i had so many pcs pretty much had everything from when ISA slot were new upto present day tech i've never had a break from PCs there my life :)

I have my Voodoo1 still :)) and a geforce 2 MX chipset on my keyring lol
 
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