What was your first PC's specs?

386 with 5.25 floppy drive and a green screen monitor was very young can't remember rest then had a tower after with p100, 8mb ram, can't remember what size hard drive, 1mb graphics and a 4mb power vr accelerator.
 
Infidelus said:
386 SX 25
2 (maybe 4) MB RAM
40 MB HDD
Dos 6.2 & Windows 3.1, and a whole lot of editing config.sys & autoexec.bat ;)
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Yes I remember fondly config and autoexec - and the pain in the arse games requiring either XMS or EMS memory - Had a menu appear on bootup to select the game and pre-configure the memory - far too much time on my hands!
 
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Jinxter said:
Yes I remember fondly config and autoexec - and the pain in the arse games requiring either XMS or EMS memory - Had a menu appear on bootup to select the game and pre-configure the memory - far too much time on my hands!
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Guess we both did, as that's how I had mine set up too :)
 
First PC I built for myself which I could call mine was:

AMD 2600+
512MB RAM
Geforce 5600 128MB
40GB HDD
 
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Youngsters.
 
Amstrad 464 Green screen with a cassette loader :)

CPU Zilog Z80A @ 4 MHz
64 kB RAM
Cassette loader
Operating system AMSDOS

Ah Jet Set Willy, Harrier Attack and my most coveted Elite.

The pure joy of an 11yr old kid :)

Can still here the cassette noise "wooowheeeeeeeebrrrrrrrwooooobrrrreeeweeeeee" 19mins to load a game and hope it did not fail :)
Regards.

C.
 
I'm 'only' 20, so not old enough to have owned an 80's computer. The first computer I know of ran on windows 3.1, I have absolutely no idea on specs, but I have a feeling it was maybe a 133mhz Pentium Pro.

The first computer I got which I knew anything about that was an Evesham Computer, cost about £1200 at the time, with an LG Flatron TFT monitor (didn't realise how epic that was at the time), and Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 speakers. The computer itself was an AMD Althon 1.5GHz, 256mb RAM, nVidia GeForce2 64mb, 40GB Hard drive, DVD-ROM, CD-RW. I remember waiting for XP to come out at the time before ordering it :)
 
CEUOTC said:
Amstrad 464 Green screen with a cassette loader :)

CPU Zilog Z80A @ 4 MHz
64 kB RAM
Cassette loader
Operating system AMSDOS

Ah Jet Set Willy, Harrier Attack and my most coveted Elite.

The pure joy of an 11yr old kid :)

Can still here the cassette noise "wooowheeeeeeeebrrrrrrrwooooobrrrreeeweeeeee" 19mins to load a game and hope it did not fail :)
Regards.

C.
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Yes but you cannot say you've lived unless you've sat through this noise:


 
I started on ZX spectrums etc but my first proper pc was one of these :


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A compaq Prolinea 4/33 with the best cpu to grace the world at the time :

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I believe it had 16mb ram, a 200mb odd hdd and was running windows 3.1 and later windows 95 (same 5000 disk affair install as the above poster!)
 
Had a Packard bell pentium 100, can't really remember the other specs but again like most people's first computers bought from pcworld/dixons for a stupid price like £2000.
 
ZX-81, ZX Spectrum, some 386 SX, 486 dx, Pentium pro and every year an upgrade after that.

QEMM was a god send for Dos Games and Memory.

I too had a boot disc set up with various configs depending on the game.

Even had a snazzy menu using ALT codes to do boxes round the choices lol

AH windows 3.11 too.
 
CEUOTC said:
Amstrad 464 Green screen with a cassette loader :)
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Same here followed by another Amstrad with a colour monitor (I think it's still in the attic) with a cartridge system for games, only had 2 cartridges mind, the rest were on tape.

Pentium 200mhz MMX
I think it was a 4gb HDD
16mb RAM
And a CD drive!
 
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