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.
 
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........
 
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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