What was your first ever PC?

Fred · 2 Nov 2011 at 08:00

First was an Oric 48k. The joy of spending hours typing in programs to watch a bunch of asterisks move about the screen, only to lose it all when you switched it off

I remember drooling over speccy's and bbc's... didnt have the money.

First real PC was a 486 dx266, with 8mb ram and a whopping single speed CD rom drive.... state of the art !!

Others : C64, Atari ST, Amiga 500 & 1200.

SoundsGood · 2 Nov 2011 at 09:45

First PC:

GFX: tnt2 32mb
Cpu: AMD Duron 1.1
Motherboard: ECS K7SEM
Ram: 384MB PC133 SDRAM
Hdd: 20gig 5400

2nd PC:

GFX: GEFORCE4 TI4200
Cpu: AMD ATHLON XP 1600+ OVERCLOCKED TO 1900+ @ 150FB
Motherboard: ECS K7S5A
Ram: 256MB DDR 2700
Hdd: 80gig Western Digital 7200rpm 8mb cache

Twas a beast!

CaptainRAVE · 2 Nov 2011 at 09:51

Had an Amiga for a long time, then got my first PC -

Pentium 233
64Mb Ram
4Gb HDD
ATI Rage 3D
17" rubbish CRT
No idea what the soundcard was.

One of the first games I played was Dark Forces 2 and I was like :eek:

spudbynight · 2 Nov 2011 at 09:51

First computer?

One of these :

dav3evans · 2 Nov 2011 at 10:30

Ohh this all takes me back, I did have an old school tape style computer. Pretty sure it was an Amstrad. Altered Beast was awesome <3

deuse · 2 Nov 2011 at 10:36

My first one was a ZX80 but then I got a ZX81 with the wobbly ram pack

I used to spend hours typing in code from ZX mags just to see a pixel move

Spud21 · 2 Nov 2011 at 11:01

Started with a BBC basic, was awesome, waiting for ages for the games to load from tape, but one year for Christmas i remember getting a (wait for it) floppy disk drive

cost an absolute bomb (over 100 quid and them some iirc) but it meant games would load up in only a couple of minutes

First proper pc was a 486 DX4 100mhz

Noashan · 2 Nov 2011 at 11:54

First proper built PC circa 1999: AMD K6-2 500, GeForce 256, 17' "flat" CRT, top of the line!

First proper PC game: Unreal Tournament, good place to start.