What was your first PC spec?

My first PC was as follows

AMD 486 DX4 100
VLB Motherboard
4MB Ram
VLB Cirrus VGA Card
SB16 Compatible Soundcard
540mb Hard Disk
14" SVGA Taxan Monitor
DOS 6.22 WFW 3.11

I later added a 4x Samsung CD-ROM Drive. I remember getting DOOM and Raptor Call Of The Shadows Shareware games from Staples to play on it.
 
I'm not sure of the full ins and outs of it but:
Packard Bell Multimedia
P166 MMX
16mb RAM
S3 video (I think??)
Aztech something soundcard
2gb HDD
CDROM
Windows 95

I did upgrade the RAM to 80mb and the processor to a P200 MMX Just for the fun of it when I got my P4 system.
As far as i'm aware the PC is still in 'working order' in the loft of my parents house, I need to pick it up over christmas and have a play :)
 
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Intel 486SX/25
4MB RAM
1MB VGA card
170MB HDD
14" VGA Monitor
DOS 5 Windows 3.1

Later added a Sound Producer Pro sound card and a CD ROM drive.
 
Pentium II 266
32MB RAM
8GB HDD

Was mine, don't know the rest of the spec. Parents had a computer earlier than that but not sure what it was, just know it had Grand Prix and Columns games on it
 
First Intel PC I used was an Amstrad 386sx 25mhz with 4mb ram and I think 80mb hard drive.
Also came with a huge 14” crt monitor!
Still got it somewhere as well.

First computer at all that I used was Texas Instruments Ti99a with add on speech synthesise.
My Dad still has that and in fact upgraded not so long ago with some of the add on cards and modules that were available.
 
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Still have the WinTune 98 benchmark results from mine, this CPU was a massive passive of crap :D

Cyrix 6x86 MII-300GP, my benchmark says it's 225mhz so it must be this model.
32MB RAM though I did upgrade this to 128MB
2.1GB HDD
GPU SIS 5597/5598

HDD results were 36MB/s and RAM speed at 291MB/s :cry:
 
Amstrad PC1512, bought as a “family computer” in the late 80’s

Operating systemMS-DOS 3.2 and DOS Plus
CPUIntel 8086 @ 8 MHz
Memory512 KB (expandable to 640 KB)
Storage10 or 20 MB HDD (optional)
Removable storage5¼-inch floppy disks
DisplayBW or color monitor; 640×200 with 16 colors
GraphicsCGA compatible

Didn’t have the optional hard drive but did have dual disk drive, did my first programming on it in BASIC.
 
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Raiden85 said:
Still have the WinTune 98 benchmark results from mine, this CPU was a massive passive of crap :D

Cyrix 6x86 MII-300GP, my benchmark says it's 225mhz so it must be this model.
32MB RAM though I did upgrade this to 128MB
2.1GB HDD
GPU SIS 5597/5598

HDD results were 36MB/s and RAM speed at 291MB/s :cry:
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Eww, Cyrix chips. Had one myself (very briefly). Absolute garbage!
 
Spectrum ZX81
Operating system - Sinclair BASIC
CPU - Z80 @ 3.25 MHz
Memory - 1 KB (plus 15KB Ram Pack)
Storage - External Compact Cassette recorder
Display - Monochrome display on television
Graphics 24 lines × 32 characters
 
Mine was a Dell Dimension XPS P133. It was the minimum spec for most games - could just run Half Life... Just!

I remember it didn't have MMX though, so couldn't run Delta Force. The 166 had that... Those extra 33mhz made all the difference!
 
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First pc was a family one, was a Compaq 386 with windows 3.1, that's all I can remember,

Then we went to a computer fair (used to be really common, do they still do them?)

Anyway dad bought for us something that was truly terrible, he got hoodwinked by the price and the guy selling it, it had a cyrix 133 in it, with a 500mb hard drive, I think was was 97 ISH maybe heads a bit fuzzy now, this was quite possibly the worst thing ever in the world it was constantly crashing, helped us as kids though learning how to fix or do workarounds to keep it going, eventually my dad had enough of it and gave it to a mate of his to upgrade it, ended up with a pentium 3 however his mate also put windows me and Norton antivirus on it, windows me was grossly unstable, and with Norton installed it was pot luck whether it loaded and worked or not, it took about a year of faffing and me ans dads mate doing various things trying to get it to run, eventually i had enough decided against parents request to remove Norton as loading the tray icon for that was where it always stalled and hurrah was working perfectly after, windows me turned out not to be too bad, and I put a rage 128 pro in so I could play grand Prix 3 and then 4.

At this point I started college and got rout of computers and found girls beer and cars.

A couple years later I did help my brother build a new computer but can't remember what the specs of this was all I remember was ddr3 had literally just been released and the motherboard and ram was horrendous cost (seem to remember he bought a gigabyte board and it had copper heat pipes going all over the place this wa San intel board, and he got an Nvidia geforce card but can't remember which one, this was the last time i touched a computer (in terms of building one) until January this year when built my current pc. I just stuck to cheap laptops to do word and photo processing as a hobby
 
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Spectrum 48k rubber keyboard.
First proper pc was
P166mmx
Nvidia graphics card can't quite remember which. But I added a 3d card pretty soon after.
3.2 had
And 256 ram
 
Mine was a Dell Dimension Pentium 90 MHz
It had 16 MB RAM, Soundblaster 16 Card, Hawk Eye #9 2MB Video Card, 500 MB Hard Drive and Double Speed CD Drive.

I managed to pick a near-identical unit up in 2017 and love it. It still runs Dos 6.22 and Windows 3.11.
 
Started with Vic-20 for me.

First PC I bought was:-

P3 533Mhz
Might have been 128MB RAM, although could have been 64MB.
12GB Hard drive which I still have somewhere.
15" monitor I reckon
ATI Riva TNT M64
It had a CD drive, but wasn't a burner.
Win 98 SE

Lasted me a few years before I went AMD for a few builds.
 
AMD Athlon 64 3000, running at 2 Ghz
512 MB RAM,
Nvidia 5200 graphics card,
CDROM x24 speed,
250 gig hard drive (I think, or 120 gig).
Asus Socket 754 motherboard,
Generic black PC case from a PC retailer...
Generic 250-300 watt PSU from the retailer.
Oh, and Windows XP! 32 Bit.

Purchased about 2004.
 
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