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

[Nevakonaza]

All i remember about my first PC is that it had a Cyrix Processor with Windows 98 SE & Windows 2000 Pro dual booted.

It was my first pc so i only used it for Word & paint,No internet access back then.

 

[The_Dark_Side]

Snap, also Tiny, also remember TIME computers, they seemed to be both massive back then but didn't last longer than a few years. I assume due to the bursting of the dot.com bubble.

Fun internet days back then.

Didn't TIME get Leonard Nimoy to do their TV commercials in the UK?

 

[Neil79]

Nobody owned a 486 100mhz DX4 then?

 

[Freefaller]

I don't miss having to tweak config.sys and autoexec.bat to tweak low and high memory to get various programmes and games to run!

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

Amstrad 286 with turbo button.
First one I modded was a P3 450 slot chip
First I built was an tbird 1.4 in a juno tower

Those were the days! I used to love the modding scene back then, so basic and entertaining.

 

[The_Dark_Side]

Anyone remember Gateway? They were huge too. I seem to remember their packaging had a black and white "cow pattern" on it.

 

[CaptainComedy]

AMD K6 I believe was my first

 

[CREATIVE!11]

Reading this thread and thinking about pc's 20 odd years ago... it blows my mind how fast things have improved...

 

[The_Dark_Side]

AMD K6 I believe was my first

I had one of those too. It was a lower clocked model until i swapped the cpu out for a 450......then that bad boy flew!

 

[Oh Ed not again.]

Xenith 286 SX16, 4mb RAM and a 40mb HDD. Ex-BT cast off. I could have Windows 3.1 or Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis installed. Not both.

 

[kefkef]

Worked on a lot of old stuff, mainframes, 286, 386 etc. First home owned PC was a Viglen P2 400mhz with 2Gb ram, 8mb ATI 2D card and 2 x Voodoo 12mb SLI'd for 3D with a 19" monitor. In 1998 and it cost me close to £2500..........

 

[The_Dark_Side]

Reading this thread and thinking about pc's 20 odd years ago... it blows my mind how fast things have improved...

The RAM upgrades for my first Computer cost £25/1k and had to be soldered into the mobo.

 

[Elrad]

I had a 486, dont know what type or anything. I wasn't very good with computers and still young.

Then me and my brother persuaded our mam and dad to get a new computer from TIME. Think it was about £1100!

It had tomb raider on it! and a dvd player!

 

[The_Dark_Side]

Worked on a lot of old stuff, mainframes, 286, 386 etc. First home owned PC was a Viglen P2 400mhz with 2Gb ram, 8mb ATI 2D card and 2 x Voodoo 12mb SLI'd for 3D with a 19" monitor. In 1998 and it cost me close to £2500..........

So many brandnames from the past. I had a Voodoo Banshee.

 

[kaiowas]

Pentium 2 400Mhz, 8.4GB HDD and Windows 98. Can't remember how much RAM it had now.

 

[Lustral]

Nobody owned a 486 100mhz DX4 then?

Mine was upgraded to a AMD DX4 120Mhz , however it only ran at 100Mhz due to the motherboard limiting it.

 

[Roar87]

My family first got a Pentium 100mhz with Windows 95, I assume it had 16mb of ram because we later added another 16mb. I loved playing Rodent's Revenge on it. The first PC that I owned was a 466mhz Celeron with 64mb of RAM, we had a LAN at home with my Dads P2 450mhz 128mb of RAM. We both had Voodoo 3's and played Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, Total Annihilation and AOE 2 over LAN all weekend. Those were good days.

 

[cyber69]

386sx25, couldn't afford a DX

 

[The_Dark_Side]

386sx25, couldn't afford a DX

Nobody could. We all bought SX's and bought a DX CPU at the next computer fair to swap it out

 

[booyaka]

286 with 8mb ram (upgraded from standard 4mb), 50mb hard drive. Win 3.1 - £1200 - my whole student loan went on it.