What spec was your first PC?

[Salazaar]

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.

Not sure if it was exactly the same model, I don't remember the manufacturer, but I had something that was strikingly similar. Did it look like a grey/beige metal shoe box with just enough room for a floppy drive on the front facia?

[Funkstar]

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 ?

I didn't have the 8110 I think only about 3 people had them. I did have the 7110 though, it was far far cooler and everyone thought it was the Matrix phone First handset to have a WAP browser. It was awesome!

[Phage]

Not sure if it was exactly the same model, I don't remember the manufacturer, but I had something that was strikingly similar. Did it look like a grey/beige metal shoe box with just enough room for a floppy drive on the front facia?

Mine looked like this
http://www.yugatech.com/blog/toys-ga...ptop-for-sale/

[killie99]

Had an Acorn Electron with 32kb of memory , then an Atarti ST with 512k of memory and then finally bought a PC in 1991 - 25MHz 486, 4Mb ram, 85Mb hard drive, built in speaker, no soundcard, 1Mb Hercules graphics card, 14" colour monitor running DOS 5 - cost £800. DOS 5 came with a huge manual which taught me everything I know about DOS. Got upgraded a year later and I spent £100 on an 8 bit sound card and £100 on a 2 speed CDROM. The CDROM connected through the sound card and I seem to remember spending about 4 hours fannying around with the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get the bloody thing to work.

[Pob255]

Mine looked like this
http://www.yugatech.com/blog/toys-ga...ptop-for-sale/

I've got dell laptop in my cupboard that looks simular to that, it's a 386sx and windows 3.22, I think, I can check as it does still work (although the battery doesn't)

[Moby-Dick]

I had a Xerox 6065 "PC Clone" 640K of memory 20meg drive and a proper floppy disk.

the keyboard was an ex olivetti one with a non standard layout , but still one of the nicest feeling keyboards I've ever used !

[Syd]

not counting 'Home Computers'.........................

My first PC was actually pretty cool it was a Pentuim 166 (P54CS)
With I think from memory(no pun intended) 16MB Ram
4MB ATI Rage card
15" Monitor
Cost me at the time about £1100 - was my first personal loan and I bought it with Civ 2, Syndicate Wars and Quake

I upgraded it later with a creative sound card another 16mb ram and a modem which were each about £100!!!!

[Vimeous]

Still got the families 1st PC, a 486DX33.
However my own first PC ate my entire 1st student loan:

Dell Dimension P75t | 64Mb RAM | 512Mb Hard drive | 8x CDROM | Some graphics | Win 95

In 3 months the drive was full so I bought one of the first 5Gb drives, a Maxtor, for a whopping £305! That is still the single most expensive PC component I've ever bought.

Still works as well - or at least it did the last time I booted it. It's currently resting in the garage attop the huge 486 mentioned above

[Moby-Dick]

Still got the families 1st PC, a 486DX33.
However my own first PC ate my entire 1st student loan:

Dell Dimension P75t | 64Mb RAM | 512Mb Hard drive | 8x CDROM | Some graphics | Win 95

In 3 months the drive was full so I bought one of the first 5Gb drives, a Maxtor, for a whopping £305! That is still the single most expensive PC component I've ever bought.

Still works as well - or at least it did the last time I booted it. It's currently resting in the garage attop the huge 486 mentioned above

that 486 made a great router

[UseItNow]

A Packard Bell with Pentium III 667MHz CPU, I think 64Mb RAM, 6x Pioneer DVD-ROM, Onboard Intel Graphics & Sound, 10Gb HDD and Windows 98SE, gave about 10 years usage, couldn't be asked to upgrade anything in it until my sibling thought he could game on it, LOL, it lasted a week when he started using it!

[Zoso]

Amstrad PC1512, 8Mhz 8086, 512Kb RAM, mono CGA (four shades of grey), no hard drive... Later upgraded with another 128K of RAM and a 32Mb hard card.

[scaryjim]

When my parents bought their first Pentium they handed down their old PC to me, so that was my first - a Packard Bell, 286 @ 12MHz, 1MB RAM, 40MB Hard drive. SVGA Graphics. Saw me all the way through university with LotusWorks 1.0 and an HP Deskjet 900c (or something similar).

The first computer I bought for myself was a Duron 1200, 128MB RAM on a PC Chips M810L mobo - a board I have seen described as "the worst Socket A motherboard ever made"!

[RIX]

My first was a COMPAQ PRESARIO

pentium 150 MHZ (overclocked it to 166MHz using jumpers)
16MB EDO RAM (added a 64MB stick)
2.5GB HDD
onboard graphics (added a voodoo 2)
2x CD Drive (i think)
26 or 33k modem (one of those)
14" monitor
HP DESKJET 820CXi printer

The funny thing is it all cost £2400 inc VAT from PC WORLD

WHAT A RIP OFF lol

[nightkhaos]

My first was a COMPAQ PRESARIO

pentium 150 MHZ (overclocked it to 166MHz using jumpers)
16MB EDO RAM (added a 64MB stick)
2.5GB HDD
onboard graphics (added a voodoo 2)
2x CD Drive (i think)
26 or 33k modem (one of those)
14" monitor
HP DESKJET 820CXi printer

The funny thing is it all cost £2400 inc VAT from PC WORLD

WHAT A RIP OFF lol

Hey RIX, didn't you say you bought your first PC two months ago from PC World?

[12GaugeShotty]

The first that I actually purchased myself and wasn't a hand out?

CPU: 1GHz AMD Thunderbird AXIA
Motherboard: Asus A7V133 (VIA KT133A)
RAM: 256MB PC133
Hard Drive: 40GB Western Digital HDD
Video: 32MB Radeon LE
Sound: Aureal Vortex 2

It was pretty quick, even back then. The fastest CPU out at the time was a 1.2GHz AMD Thunderbird which had just been released. DDR2 had just came out as well but offered zero performance increase on the ALi MAGiK chipset.

[Papa Lazarou]

My first PC was a 486SX with 4mb and 250mb hard drive, double speed CDROM, 1mb graphics. This was around about 1994. I remember it struggled with 4mb even then!

Before that had Atari 800, Spectrum, Atari ST, and finally an Amiga.