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

Freefaller said:
286 8mhz (12mhz with turbo button!), 2mb of ram, 20mb harddrive. 5.25 & 3.5" disc drives.

Running Dos 6. Upgraded it to 6.1 later when it came out.

Then installed windows 3.11 :cool:
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dos 6? DR DOS was where it was at to get enough free memory to play some games ;)
 
An Evesham Vale Desktop

300Mhz Pentium 2
32MB RAM
4GB Quantum Bigfoot 4000RPM 5.25" HD
CD-ROM
15" CRT Monitor
ATI Rage 2 4MB
56K ISA Modem (best dialup modem i ever owned)
Win 98
 
Neil79 said:
Does anyone remember those 486 computers with that turbo button, I do :D It was also my first computer before I got myself an AMD K6-2, but what was your first PC computer? ( DOS era onwards )
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386, 1 MB RAM and 4 drives. As well as 2 5.25 inch floppy drives, it had a 40MB HDD and and 80MB HDD. Pretty high end kit. It cost me £500 second hand at the time. I can't recall if the 386 in it was an SX-25 or a DX-33. Did it come with the DX-33 or was that my first upgrade? I don't remember.

I do remember changing the the LED display on the front of my case to show "99", i.e. a hilariously implausible CPU clock speed of 99 MHz! :) I even briefly kept a straight face when I told a couple of people that I had a special model of the recently released 486 that could run at 99 MHz instead of the usual 33 MHz. People assumed (quite reasonably) that the LED speed display on the case showed the actual clock speed, but it was just set by a bunch of jumpers.
 
I remember having a 386, then a 486. They were my parents but I used to mess about on them. Playing some weird game with monkeys in a city throwing bananas at each other.
 
I started with a Viglen Pentium 120MHz as they used Viglen 486s at the uni and I liked them so I got one when I left.

Then when I got a job with a nice wage, I built a dual Pentium II 400MHz setup (back then they were £350 each, £700 total or were they £700 each for £1400 total? I can't remember) and I had to order a special QDI motherboard worth another £400. When I look back at that, I must have been completely bonkers. Well, I was. :D
 
Duke said:
Cyrix 586 100mhz, first non PC was Acorn Electron.

Here is the original advert - had the multimedia one.

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I remember Escom, they had a store in my town in the 90s but it wasn't open very long. :p
 
got it from tiny computers dont know model, then got a pc from tesco and stuck a radeon 9800 pro which made cs source pretty playable.
 
Mine was a lovely AMD 233 K6-2 with separate 2D/3D video cards with a cable link between them (voodoo and something else) in about '96-97 which was swiftly upgraded to an AMD 400 K6-2 EXT chip. Didn't get my 1st 1Ghz+ PC until 2001!
 
The first PC I had was an Apricot, it only had 512k RAM not even the magical 640k so it was awful. Hercules green screen, it ran Lotus 123 and I think WordPerfect if I recall. They were chucking it out at Lotus (the software company) where I had a cleaning job at the time while I was at college.
 
486 DX2 66
1mb Cirrus Logic graphics
8MB RAM (I was advised against it as it was overkill)
40MB HDD.
Generic soundblaster clone.
14" Monitor

Upgraded with a DX4 100 cpu later on, but could only ever get it to run at 80Mhz.
All for a cost of £1700
 
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:

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My first PC was some cheap weird brand 386 SX16 running DOS 5.0 with 2MB RAM and a 20MB HDD. I played X-Wing and Wing Commander to death on that thing.

My second was a AMD 486 DX4-120 with 8MB of RAM. That thing whipped the ass off the Pentium 60 that was doing the rounds at the time.
 
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