What was your first (PC) computer, 286,386?

[coolsurfer]

First pc my dad bought for me? A pentium 2 333mhz with 128mb ram, 8.6gb hdd and an ati rage pro 8mb graphics card with a 15" lg studioworks svga monitor back in 1998. It was a monster machine back in the day.

 

[steve45]

Couldnt for the life of me tell you the specs but i think my first proprer PC for myself (Not a family PC) was a Compaq Presario 4110, It was a hand me down from my uncle. I remember playing Doom, Blood and Clive barkers undying on it, the latter being the reason for getting a new system and the start of a long love/hate relationship with PC's...

 

[peter]

316sx about 1989 list price was around £1200
the 486 remember doing something to it to go faster but not what played dune 2 on it

 

[Skiddley]

IBM 8086. The classic one with a green screen, 5.25 floppy and a 40MB Winchester disk.

 

[MookJong]

Just searched the thread and I have commented but not actually listed. Fist machines were:

Amstrad CPC 6128
Amiga 600
AST Advantage 486 DX50 4MB 128MB HDD

On the AST I later added a DX100 CPU which was bottlenecked but got me up to about 80mhz and added 8MB RAM taking me up to 12MB.

Amoungst my friends studying IT at College I had the BEAST machine.

 

[Unluckyalf]

Pentium 90 was my first actual PC, though i had owned a ZX81 and an Amiga and an Acorn Electron in the years before that. I dont recall the exact specs but stupidly i opted for win 3.11 as the OS instead of the newly released Windows 95. Changed that after just a few weeks.
What actually got me into computers though was my dad building a Nascom 2 from a kit in the late 70s where you had to solder all the components onto the motherboard!

 

[!bluetonic!]

I was an Amiga 500/1200 user, but my Dad brought home a Dell Pentium 90 back in 1994/5 with Windows 3.11 installed and a CDROM drive and Sound Card. This made my PC mates jelous. They were still running 486 Chips.

I then tried to install OS/2 Warp onto it and cocked it up.

I've been taking a trip down memory lane with PC nostalgia, but the equipment is expensive. Unless you lot have got the kit stored in your lofts. £60-£80 for an Awe64.

And the realisation that PCI Sound cards aren't supportive in native DOS 6.22.

I've used DosBox with Munt to great effect, but running it on the old hardware would be good for 5 or so minutes.

 

[Phate]

Tiny lol a name from the past

I know, I still have the occasional nightmares from that thing.

 

[Sankari]

Pre-PC:

* Commodore VIC-20
* Commodore C-64

PC:

* 486 (Cyrix 686 133MHz) with 128MB RAM & 1GB Quantum Fireball HDD

 

[Rannoch]

I know, I still have the occasional nightmares from that thing.

I remember fixing one that had a Quantum Bigfoot hard disk

 

[bobbarley]

486 XS-25Mhz, 8MB RAM, 260mb HD, 512kb ISA graphics card, sound blaster, 14" monitor and 2x CD drive.

Although before that I used an Atari ST.

 

[Hostile-17]

Amstrad CPC-464 (the one with the cassette)

 

[hornetstinger]

Amstrad CPC-464 (the one with the cassette)

That was a personal computer, but not a IBM style PC, based on MS-DOS etc.

But earliest computer I had was Vic 20.

 

[Narj]

Amstrad CPC-464 (the one with the cassette)

Me too. Colour monitor, to boot! I felt sad junking it but had to be ruthless.

But yeah that wasn't a "PC"

 

[Daftbrown]

BBC Micro --> 486 DX2 66 --> (upgrade to Pentium 100Mhz) --> Console peasant --> P3 866 Mhz --> Console peasant 360 --> Current rig in sig.

 

[neodude]

486SX-25. 4MB RAM. 80MB HDD.

Used MS Dblspace to make the HDD 160MB and eventually got an Intel Overdrive chip to make it a Pentium 90.

(Before that I had BBC-B, VIC20, Spectrum +2, Atari STE, Atari Falcon030)

 

[hornetstinger]

486SX-25. 4MB RAM. 80MB HDD.

Used MS Dblspace to make the HDD 160MB and eventually got an Intel Overdrive chip to make it a Pentium 90.

(Before that I had BBC-B, VIC20, Spectrum +2, Atari STE, Atari Falcon030)

Remember those utilites, that and stacker. Slowed the systems down, and also if you got data loss of the compressed file, you lose lots more data or the whole lot.

 

[Meridian]

Epson 286, with a turbo button to switch between (IIRC) 12KHz and 10KHz.

 

[Django x2]

086 Amstrad. I kid you not. The 486 RM machines with the turbo button were well good.

Makes you think, back then, in schools, banks, and corps, just how good IT people must have been to have lockdowns and disable features without referencing Google and stuff.....

 

[George Hincapie]

The first one I owned was an Atari A1200 I think. The first I built was an AMD K6-2 or something like that.