What spec was your first PC?

[handscombmp]

A gateway P75 with i have no idea how much RAM and HDD.

Boy was it good for some rallying game i had and a star wars one.

[KidChameleon]

I have no idea what my very first computer was. All I remember is it had a green screen and a dot matrix printer. I used to write my letters to Santa on it and play Asteroids in about 1991.

The first PC I remember anything about was a Packard Bell from PC World in either 1996 or 1997. It cost a bundle for Windows 95, a Pentium 150MHz, either 16 or 32MB of RAM (I kind of remember because Civilisation 2 needed 16MB to run the advisors videos and our's was close). I don't know how big the hard drive was but dad spent a fortune getting another one which had to be split into a lot of partitions. I had trouble installing Flight Simulator 98 because the original hard drive wasn't big enough.

[matty-hodgson]

Q6600, 4GB RAM, 250GB HD, 8800GT, IP35 Dark Raider.
pretty decent for a first computer

[Funkstar]

pretty decent for a first computer

But it won't be when you reply to a similar thread in 10 - 15 years time

[madman045]

off the top of my head

Pentium 75mhz, 1.2GB, 4mb, dual speed cdrom, 1mb video, sound blaster (or some variant), Windows 3.1

[andrewuk]

1st PC was a Dell Dimension 486SX 25Mhz, 4 MB ram, 170MB HD and MS-DOS 6 & Windows 3.1

It eventually finished up with a 100Mhz DX/4 Overdrive, 20 MB ram, a double speed (wow!) CD-ROM drive, Sound Blaster 16 and a 1.2GB hard disc (with a driver to overcome the 540MB BIOS capacity barrier of the times ) and Windows 95.

[Pob255]

The first pc I actually owned (rather than my dad's) was an at the time high end pentium 120mhz, 1gb hdd (scsi) + 2gb hdd (ide), a massive 72mb of ram, a Dimond stealth 3d 2000 graphics card, a soundblaster 16bit, 8x cd rom, a pci scsi controller card, a 3.5" Fujitsu Magneto-Optical drive and windows 95
Seem to remember the total at the time was about £1200

[Saracen]

gawd I feel old
Wang Internation 8086 (2mhz?) with 2mb of ram and a 10mb Winchester drive.
No 3d card on that, mind :/

That makes you feel old? This should cheer you up.

First PC I had was a 8088-based something or other. It had 640k of memory, a 20MB hard drive and 14" screen that cost more than a decent modern HD TV does.

Before that, prior to the days of PCs, I had a heavily extended Apple II system as my first "proper" computer, though I also had the usual ZX80, Spectrum etc type machines. That basic Apple II was about £1000 as near as makes no difference, before we get to ludicrously priced memory extensions, a Z80 board so I could use CP/M and COBOL, and so on. And hard drives? Fat chance. 136kb floppies was as far as it went, and it was a fairly highly specified machine at that, with many people using cassette interface.

Prior to that, even, I had a Texas Instruments programmable calculator that cost not far short of the price of a decent PC system these days. But I was using, day to day, a teletype interface for direct access to an ICL1905 mainframe, but most programming jobs were submitted via optical mark cards. I was lucky to have access to the tty machine though, because I could dump programs to paper tape via a reader/punch on the teletype .... if I had enough time allocated.

But that was only the first machine I had regular daily access to. The first machine I ever used was an IBM 360 mainframe in, oh, mid to late 60s, but that was rare access. My brother used it all the time though, which is how I got access on occasion.

And that Apple II system? Yup ..... still got it.

[kmac]

An IBM 286 can't remember much more about it.

Monitor had that nice green text.

Remember using Dbase II database with it.

[Phage]

Snap!!

Was is a grey Toshiba? I got one from my dads work. 25MHz 386SX but with the 387 maths co-processor next to it. 4MB RAM and 20MB hard drive.

First proper PC was a P133, 8MB, 1.2GB, 2MB ATI graphics, 15" monitor, 4x CD-ROM. All from Escom. Cost about £1800 if I remember right.

That's the one. I was well broke for many years but my 1st PC that I bought was a P200 (with mmx ! Fnar...) Had a nice matrox 4Mb video card.

Oh and first system I used, though, was a VAX.

[Biscuit]

first one my parents got was a 200Mhz Pentium but the first one i personally had was an 800Mhz Duron with a Geforce 2 something i think.

I didnt really care all that much back then though, nowhere near as much as i do nowerdays.

First computer really cared about was my XP3200 which at first had an ati 9500 but it broke so i replaced it with an X700 which was awesome

[daniel_owen_uk]

Pentium 2 200mhz

Swapped it for a 400mhz chip at some point, jesus that was an upgrade!

Will have been about 1997 I think.

Hope we come as far in the next 12 years as we have in the last.

[teachmech]

My first PC was a 486 SX25 with 4Mb memory 2Mb cirus logic graphics card with 160Mb hard disk, an ISA soundblaster compatiable sound card and a dual speed CD rom drive all running MS-Dos 6 and windows 3.1 with a 14 inch colour Svga monitor.

At the time I think this lot cost me close to £1000.

[Phage]

Actually the rate of change has been so great, that you can now accurately date a movie or TV show by the phones and kit in it. Rember the Matrix and it's Banana Nokia ?

[Jay]

I had an 8086 8Mhz CPU, 512K RAM, CGA display with extra 640x200 16 colour mode (Wow!), 360K 5 1/4" floppy disk drive, 10MB HDD

It was turd and very very noisy.

[aidanjt]

But that was only the first machine I had regular daily access to. The first machine I ever used was an IBM 360 mainframe in, oh, mid to late 60s, but that was rare access. My brother used it all the time though, which is how I got access on occasion.

Did you bow before, and pay homage to the all important mainframe before sitting at the typewrit... err terminal?