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

2001 - My Dad's old Pentium 3 tower - around 700Mhz with 128MB of RAM, 12GB Seagate HDD & a 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 graphics card (and a monster of a card that was when it first came out back in around 1999, I even remember how temperamental it was due to the size and kept popping out of the AGP port slightly).

I ran this machine full time until around 2003 when my Dad passed down another machine to me and then I stored it away for years on end. Fast forward to 2013 and I had a clear out and this machine was finally chucked out, amazingly on that very day it still worked as it should. Even the 12GB HDD too, which took a good beating with the hammer of course before going in the bin ;)

Liam.
 
Bit late to the game by some reckonings on here then. First was a P75.

First decent machine was a p2-300 with a 3dfx voodoo.
 
166MMX overclocked to 200mhz paired with an Ati 2d only card & 16mb of EDO RAM iirc
Eventually upgraded (if you can call it that!) to a cyrix333, that didn't last long till it got upgraded properly to a k2-500.
 
Cyrix 586 100mhz, first non PC was Acorn Electron.

Here is the original advert - had the multimedia one.

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Love these nostalgia threads :-)

I was a late starter, aged 20 in 1999. Had a PII 350mhz, 64MB RAM, 3.2GB hard drive, Soundblaster 16, some crappy ATI 2MB graphics card, 17" CRT monitor. Then did some upgrades to it - doubled the RAM to 128MB, added a 6.4GB hard drive so that 3.2GB was C: and 6.4GB was D: then swapped the 2MB ATI for a 32MB Voodoo 4. Also added a CD-RW on top of the existing CD-ROM. Bloody primary/secondary master/slave, and jumper switches. You young whippersnappers have it easy these days :p

This first PC I had was all about Age of Empires II, the Sims, Final Fantasy 7/8 and Hampsterdance :D
 
First PC I remember being called "Blue Lightning 2" or II. Researching it for this thread I can't find it, only Blue Lightning which was IBM.

I sold everything to do with my Playstation and bought this PC from the yellow pages. I was so excited to be able to play, Quake at my house instead of on my mates PC, and this "Blue Lightning" was such a lemon it couldn't even run, Quake. My dreams were shattered, I invested everything and got nothing, many rivers were cried.

Then my big bro saved the day and built a P166 rig and built it overnight and when I got up the next day it was there waiting for me with, Quake on the title screen.

Every now and then I like to load, Quake and have a go.. remember the times.
 
AMD K6-2 350mhz ?
256mb ram
Voodoo banshee

my mate was so jealous he went and got a k6-3 500 and a voodoo 3

that blew mine away....

Anyone for HLDM and some CS beta 1? tripple fire glocks in beta 2 !
 
Opus 286SX 8MHz
512k RAM. We later upgraded to 1MB!
5.25" Floppy
HDD was 20mb
DOS I think was v3.2, which was quite new!

We had Word Perfect and A-10 Tank Buster.
Oh and that dot matrix printer though.........


I actually still have a set up 486DX4-100 which I use for some old games. :D

Also another Acorn Electron user here. Had one from a young age. Again I still have a working one. Two in fact :)
 
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In 1997 I bought and built my first PC.

CPU was an AMD K6 233MHz MMX, with 32MB or 64MB of ram, I can't remember which. 3.2GB Maxtor HDD, Matrox Mystique GFX card, Soundblaster AWE 64 sound card, and a FDD and a 24x Pioneer CD-ROM drive that sounded like a hoover. Man that thing was loud.

Next was a Celeron 333, then an Athlon 650, then an Athlon 1GHz, then an AMD 2400+, then a 2500+ Barton........
 
A packard bell with windows 98 in 1999, no idea what the specs would be though.

first proper PC was an I5 2500K with a 6950, no where near as interesting as the computers in the rest of the thread.
 
Cyrix MII 233mhz, can't remember any more specifics though.

I've still got a working AMD K6-2 450mhz chip, board and 128mb of ram sat in the cupboard
 
286 with EGA graphics
20mb HDD (used doublespace to give me 40mb)
Can't remember the RAM (not much)

DOS 6.2 / Windows 3.11 for Workgroups

That's 20mb HDD not 20gb lol

one thing it did have which even PCs today can't do.....zero cooling intel processor! (not even a heatsink)
 
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