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

Amstrad PC2086 :)

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Ahh the memories, Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Captain Comic, Grand Prix, Digger, Out Run, Freddy's Nightmare, Jason Jupiter Space Cadet, Starglider, Overkill, etc.
 
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My dad had a commodore 64 for work in the early 90s but our first home PC that we really got to go on was a Packard Bell XLE which was amazing at the time, must have completed the demo of MDK about 200 times! Also the box of demo CDs that came with computers and PC gamer demo disks provided most of our entertainment!
 
Blackjack Davy said:
We didn't use the term PC for them then
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Yes we did (also Microcomputer).

BBCs, Acorns, Amigas, Atari STs, Apples, Commodores, Amstrads, IBM XT, etc were all PCs. Hence why the IBM PCs and compatibles were called the IBM PCs and compatibles instead of just PCs and compatibles.

The idea of PC being specifically Intel/AMD hardware and a Windows operating system comes from a marketing campaign done by Apple in the 90's (before they started using the same hardware).
 
My first was a 386 that couldn't play Doom :(

I still have some old CPU knocking around, here's a old cyrix, K62, various Intel and Athlons. I still have some old K62 motherboards and I also kept the fantastic Abit NF7 motherboard I think everyone on this forum had one of those many years ago, it was a amazing board

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First "proper" PC was a 486 SX50. Leased from Radio Rentals who I paid an additional £150 to for an extra 4Mb (yes, 4 megabytes) of RAM. That was in late 1994.

It was bought to play Doom, Wing Commander 2 & 3 (latter the reason for the extra RAM) plus the various Microprose flight sims and DI Tornado, which only had a cut down version on Amiga.

Prior to that I had owned an Amiga A600 and A1200 but the above was my first IBM machine.
 
Vern1961 said:
First "proper" PC was a 486 SX50. Leased from Radio Rentals who I paid an additional £150 to for an extra 4Mb (yes, 4 megabytes) of RAM. That was in late 1994.

Prior to that I had owned an Amiga A600 and A1200 but the above was my first IBM machine.
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I paid similar for a 512kb (kilobytes) upgrade to my Amiga 500 :)
 
Mik3 said:
My first was a 386 that couldn't play Doom :(

I still have some old CPU knocking around, here's a old cyrix, K62, various Intel and Athlons. I still have some old K62 motherboards and I also kept the fantastic Abit NF7 motherboard I think everyone on this forum had one of those many years ago, it was a amazing board

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is that a mouse mat?
 
HEADRAT said:
White ZX80 which I built from a kit (yes I'm old school)
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I remember those. Almost got one but instead managed to borrow a friends ZX81 for a few months (can't remember how or why). Mind tou I had to hold the RAM pack on with an elastic band to get it to work.
 
howiepoohs said:
IIRC, with Voodoo 2 you needed a 2nd Graphics card to display the 3d content. AFAIK, Voodoo 3 was the first one to have integrate VGA.
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Loved my Voodoo 3, my second ever 3D graphics card, the first being PowerVR, i decided to go against the grain and go with my PowerVR instead of the Voodoo 1
 
howiepoohs said:
IIRC, with Voodoo 2 you needed a 2nd Graphics card to display the 3d content. AFAIK, Voodoo 3 was the first one to have integrate VGA.
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The early Voodoos were simply 3D accelerators and you had to chain in a 2D graphics card to get display output - IIRC some variants of the Voodoo 2 and the Banshee, etc. could drive a monitor directly though.
 
First computer was a ZX81 with 1k of ram. Yup 1024 bytes and that included video ram. Soon had a 16k ram pack.

Then had a BBC model b and my dad bought a sharp mz80k with gasp a floppy drive taking 5.25" disks.

At university I had an Acorn Archimedes which I loved.

Pcs note all seem a little uniform. I loved the different flavours computers had.
 
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