What was your first PC spec?

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I'm not ashamed to admit my first PC was a shop bought one. This was back in September 99' I think.

Other than the old systems like CPC, Amiga, C64 etc.

PIII 450
128MB RAM
12GB HDD (I remember the guy in the shop telling me I'd never fill a 12GB HDD)
Voodoo 3 2000
15" CRT


Goldeneye on DVD came free! The computer had a DVD player inside it! :eek:

It also game with a copy of Delta Force! Oh my days, what a game. I still remember the first missing, running over the first hill and taking out the guard in the watch tower.
 
Think mine was just a few years before yours, a Packard Bell machine :)

P200 MMX
16MB RAM upgraded to 48MB
6GB HDD
Basic GPU upgraded to VOODOO2 add on
15" CRT upgraded to 17" Sony Trinitron


Delta Force, what a game! :D
 
Pentium 2 on Windows 95 and was a Packard Bell that's all I remember. I had a wheel and pedals set for "Network Q RAC Rally" as well, loved that to bits! That's all I remember though I was too young.
 
8086
640K Ram
20MB ST506 HD
5.25" Floppy
CGA

all on a wooden structure I cobbled together as the whole thing was made of scrounged together bits
 
A family friend hooked us up with one. It was no doubt a pre-built but not something like a dell or HP.

It was Windows 95
Pentium 100MHz
16MB of Ram (upgraded at purchase from 8MB!)
About 800MB HDD
Some kind of cheap 3D accelerator as I played a fair few games on it.

I "broke" it by messing with add / remove hardware. I was 6 years old and just pushing buttons! Reinstalling windows would probably have fixed it but we upgraded to a TIME P2 450MHz / 128MB /Nvidia TNT pc.
 
I bought my first PC around 1996 I think. It was advertised in PC Pro in one of their labs features and the winner was a PC by the now defunct Panrix.

The CPU was a Cyrix 6x86 P166 and it had 16MB of ram with a Quantum Fireball 2GB HDD. The video card wasn't anything special, just a standard 2D job.
 
Packard Bell 386SX 20MHZ (1992)
2MB Ram


If I recall it cost (my parents) a fair bit more in the UK than the advert above.

The pace of change for PC technology during the nineties was brutal. Hardware was rendered obsolete within months. Doom came out in 1993, on a 386 it was a slide show!

It was in 1997 when I had managed to upgrade to my next PC. During the interim period, I remember buying PC magazines and wistfully pining for a 486DX/Pentium to play the latest games.

Then 3DFX came out. :eek:
 
My first PC was an 8086, then a 386, 486, P90, P166, Celeron 333... most bits were hand-me-downs from my Dad.

Regarding 3Dfx though. Wow. I can still remember POD, Monster Truck Madness, Tomb Raider and the like. The difference between software rendering and 640x480 at 30?+ fps.... what a revelation! And the card came bundled with Sega Rally - no more feeding £1 coins into the arcade machine whenever I visited the cinema!
 
First was a 386 that my folks got 2nd hand from a friend of theirs don't really know the specs of that, but a couple years later we got a new PC that was a Pentium 150 with 32mb of ram, which was later upgraded with a s3 savage 4 GPU.

First I bought myself was a Pentium 4 2ghz (I think) with a GeForce 4 4200ti.

First I built was a AMD Athlon 64x2 4600+ with a GeForce 7800 that I got from here :)
 
Got mine from a local computer shop, can't remember much of the specs.
486
4mb RAM
Double speed CD-ROM! :o
Windows 3.1 or 3.11

Damn thing kept breaking, was a pain in the **** to lug down the street, back to the shop.

I remember my 1st 3Dfx card, pretty sure it was an Orchid or something and the difference it made was amazing, I couldn't believe how good Dark Forces 2 looked. Made me go through all my old demo CD's to try out all the games I couldn't play before.
 
Built my own was a 486DX...33 i think but then got hold of a 66 so that was a quick jump up.
4Mb ram i think, svga graphics on a Vesa local bus card (the long ones) cant remember the hdd size.

Next up was a dual p2 workstation i managed to get cheep, big big step up.
 
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