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

[Scougar]

LG 80286 12Mhz. Was considered fast at the time. This was the first family owned PC.

I can't remember what I personally bought for my first PC myself, but I remember saving up for it. Can't remember if it was a Cyrix/AMD 386 style (K series) chip or if it was a 486 DX2 66.

 

[xxalxx]

Skipping past my Commodore Vic-20 and a few other things such as Speccy, St, Amiga ...

Olivetti 486sx25

 

[Limpnoodle]

Dell OPTIPLEX1 pentium 166mhz i think


Literally thousands of them around at the time all dirt cheap.
That was my first proper pc with tinterweb through aol lol
With lots of slow pron, damn i had a good time

 

[Boycey0211]

When tech was well into pentium 90 days my parents decided to buy the family our first PC, spent £300 or so and came back with a 386 SX33. Was an utter POS for the price but I gamed on it for another 4-5 years using bargain bin DOS games.

Roll on 2005 and they decided to upgrade! To an intel celeron 500mhz with no graphics card. TBH I blame these mistakes for wanting decent stuff now. I think I appreciate tech more as an adult as I had to watch everyone else being so much better off in my childhood.

 

[Meaker]

Celeron 333A, 64MB of ram, 6GB HDD, 4MB AGP 2D card.

 

[Jonny2284]

Can't remember the rest of the specs but it was some P133 job.

I was an Amiga guy to the bitter end.

 

[Tom_ed1987]

Had some awful green screen thing for a while which you had to park the HDD heads on before turning off. It played Xenon & Carrier Command fairly well though. First proper modern PC was a p2 333mhz voodoo2 beast. I spent hours playing the games it came with (g-police, incoming! & ultimate race pro iirc)

Good times.

 

[uvarvu]

My first was in 1995 and it fitted with a P75 and a 1GB HDD. I can't remember how much RAM it had though. I do remember it being very slow! Descent was the first game I played on it

 

[Scrutinize]

I had a PII 350 as my first when I started uni, which I progressively upgraded but had been using PCs since my dads amstrad 1512 which incidentally had starglider on it. Now there was a game.

 

[divuk83]

I had a 386 16mhz (which I'm pretty sure had a turbo button) running windows 3.1. I think it had 3mb of ram and I can't remember what hdd. It was a hand me down and was a bit slow when I got it so I soon upgraded to a P75. The first computer I built was and Athlon XP1800+. It was amazing at the time!

Dave

 

[Skiddley]

I had one of the original IBM 8086s with the ram (256Kb?) hardwired onto the motherboard. Can't recall the frequency, but it was single figures. Green sceen. Dos 3.3 I seem to remember.

Had to park the 20MB winchester hard disk before turning it off

I still remember getting our first EGA (colour) screen. Amazing. Then a 286 that ran at 25Mhz, with boost to 33! Then VGA - "it's like TV!!".

Good times.

 

[KiNgPiN83]

Amstrad 1640k. It was terrible like most Amstrad products

 

[IvanDobskey]

I had a Packard bell 486 DX2 50 with 4mb of ram bought way back in 1993 primarily to play Doom

Crazy how far PC's have come since.

 

[Eurofighter]

I can't remember the specs now. It was a Tiny and my dad bought it second hand from someone at work.

The PC we got next was a AMD Duron and an AMD Thunderbird as we built 2 at the same time.

 

[B&W]

486 sx 25 MHz. Can't remember the rest accurately but I'll try.

2 speed CD ROM
0.5 mb gfx
256 mb HDD
Sound blaster
14" svga monitor

Remember playing chuck yaegar and vette(car racing game like GTA).

Anyone remember encarta/Grolier encyclopaedia lol.

 

[B&W]

The first PC that was entirely my own was a Christmas present from my parents in 2000: it was an eMachines, Intel Celeron 633MHz, Intel graphics, 64MB of RAM, 15GB HDD, DVD-ROM, Windows Me and a 17" monitor which was pretty impressive back then. Upgraded the GPU with a GeForce2MX 32MB DDR about a month after getting it, and upped the RAM to 192MB shortly after that. Handled Hitman, R6 Rogue Spear and Motocross Madness 2 very nicely.

Almost forgot, I also had probably one of the best mice ever made, the MS IntelliMouse Explorer:

Legendary mouse, way better then razor and the rest. Perfect for cs and other fps.

 

[The-Plethora]

Skipping the ZX Spectrum and Amiga machines mine would have been...

Pentium 166MHz
32 MB EDO Ram
Gigabyte GA-5AX Motherboard
Diamond Stealth 1mb PCI graphics - My brother gave me his voodoo rush 6mb
ISA Sound card
14.4K US Robotics modem
14" Samtron monitor. Could only do a max of 1024*768 at an eye destroying 60Hz

 

[Kanifee]

My first pc was cutting edge compared time some of these, AMD Duron 1200, 256mb SD ram, 20GB HDD and an nvidia geforce2 mx440. It Was a beast and I loved it in its beige brick of a case.

 

[B&W]

I upgraded to a P3 666SE with geforce 1 sdr after first pc. Was perfect for quake/ut .

Diamond supra express 56E pro, legendary modern lol.

 

[B&W]

I upgraded to a P3 666SE with geforce 1 sdr after first pc. Was perfect for quake/ut .

Diamond supra express 56E pro, legendary modern lol.