What spec was your first PC?

[Hicks12]

I actually cant remember what my first computer was, it was probably in 1995/6 though so im guessing an AMD K5 P100, probably 24mb ram, graphics card i cant remember but i have an old vodoo card that is longer than any card ive seen (it probably makes the 5970 look small) so maybe that was it :L . I believe this system was eventually retired so me and my dad ordered in a whole new rig, this was as follows:

Athlon 1800+
512mb Ram
Fx5200

Ran everything pretty well and was happy with it, few months later my dad said for my birthday i can get a computer for my self and i was given a budget so off i went to get it done and heres what i had :

AMD Athlon 2400+
1gb Ram
Ati 9600XT
Asus A7vx(something like that)

The cpu worked alright but eventually i upgraded to a Barton 3000+ and that overclocked pretty well (3.6ghz was a breeze) and was incredibly quick. The gpu was awesome, now the difference between a 9600 and 9600XT wasnt much iirc but it was just the extra overclocking and ability to use overdrive, i managed to get 200-300Mhz off the core and memory clock though so was happy to extend its life, could play any game i threw at it and ive had the pc for years which i switched to a new case and all. Eventually the asus mobo gave up (cant remember how) so got an MSI one, worked great as usual.

Only sold off that pc in parts when overhauling it for the new generation of games (it had lasted for about 6-7 years so thought it was time!). Now heres the latest:

Intel core 2 e8400
Crucial Ballistic 4gb DDR2 6400 ram(overclocked to 1000Mhz)- Cas 4
Asus P5n-D (wish i got a CF board but it does the job)
Ati vapour x 4850
1tb hitachi sata
640gb WD AAKS
Cm 690(case)

This build went through a few changes when i got it, originally it had an 8800GTS 512mb powering it(was great card, still is after many renames!) but after a few months or so i won the hexus comp for 9800GTX so sold the 8800 to a mate and used the 9800, eventually parents wanted to cut down on energy bills so i tried my best at reducing power and the 9800 was very power hungry. I saw the vapour x on sale and decided to trade my 9800 in to cex and spend £5 and get something that performs ~10% better and also uses 2/4 of the power!.

In the new year i may be getting a new graphics card to just play my favourite game, alien vs predator in full dx 11 glory!.

[Bunjiweb]

My first PC was an unbranded case that housed a beast of a 386 clocked at 25mhz. accompanied by 2 mb ram and a 160mb hdd. Later on I decided to fit and extra 4mb of ram a soundblaster and CD drive, much like GheeTsar by the sounds of things.

It came with Windows 3, I upgraded it 3.11 and actually managed to get Windows 95 to run on it, just.

After this I moved onto a Cyrix 266mhz beast, with 64mb of ram and various other crap from TIME computers. The biggest heap of junk I ever owned, it came with Windows 98 which was the best thing about it. I fitted a Voodoo 3dfx card so that I could play stuff like Quake etc.

Those were the days.... the awful, awful days of computing.

Ben

[razer121]

lol glad i only just started when pcs were pretty bad.....25mhz!!! man i moan at a 2.00ghz!!! lol

[Keyboard]

My first ever computer that I used, and owned, was a ZX81 that I build myself from a kit.

First ever PC I used was at work - an IBM XT.

First ever PC I owned was 20 years after the ZX81, and I'm using it now. Carrera built Athlon XP/ASUS mobo beige job. You could call me a very late adopter

[integerspin]

I was given, not that I wanted it I wanted cash, an old IBM thing, a bloke palmed me off with it as he didn't have the money
to pay for repairing his car. matey had blagged his way into a job mending them[you just randomy swap things till
they work again;-)]. I turned it on pressed a few keys and never looked at it again, chucked it out and have been told since it
was a collectors item!

My first PC I bought was a 386 and the bloke mentioned above owned a computer company by now so I got some bits of him.
486 motherboard board with a soldered on 486sx25 chip,
Another 2mb of ram,
a 70MB hd
and a cd drive
This was all in payment for repairing his sisters escort, when she crashed it[don't think I ever saw any cash from him]. I spent a weekend getting the hard disk to work;-) The hdd came in a retail box and had a price of 250 quid on it! the ram was 25quid a stick. At the time the 386 was worth around a grand secondhand! My brother had just paid close to 3 grand for a 486. By the time I flogged it I still got 500 quid for the base unit!

[watforddude]

First computer the house hold had that i remember was -

Dell Dimension 4300
1.6Ghz P4
256MB RAM finally upgraded to a whopping 512
Geforce 2 MX400 (could play cod2 quite well )
40GB HDD
15 inch Dell Moniter

And the first computer that was my own was pretty much the same as in my sig

E1400 2.0Ghz
1GB DDR2 Kingston
80GB PATA HHD
300W PSU
No graphics card.

[Bunjiweb]

I took "PC" literally but my first computer was a BBC Micro, absolutely awesome gaming machine. Used to have to go and have dinner whilst it loaded games from a tape.....

Ben

[ferfery]

Glorious Commodore VIC-20 with massive 3.5 KB memory + Cassette drive + 160 KB Floppy Drive.Cost was around £700 !!

[Great Eastern]

My first computer was an Amstrad CPC 6128, Great little machine for its day, 128k memory and a 3" floppy drive. After that I went on to a Amstrad PC-1640, had a massive 20mb hard drive (I'll never fill all of that!) it ran Dos or Gem. Simpler times indeed!

[dirky]

BBC Micro was delievered kindly by santa (set it all up too). Many hours spent playing chucky egg and arkanoid!

[ajones]

ZX Spectrum 64
Atari Mega ST (4Meg STFM )
P100 with a Matrox graphics card and Creative Labs sound to play Tomb Raider on (recall spending hours getting the frikken sound card drivers to work!)

[Behemoth]

My Dad and I were given in the late 80's early 90's a Toshiba T300, well we were given two fo them from a neighbor. we spent weeks trying to get one of them working out of the 2. All I can remember was that the problem was the power supply and once we had gotten that sorted we had fun learning dos.

I seem to remeber my Dad selling them both off for spares, and about a year or so later the first really useable PC I had access to was a Tandon XT. It had a whopping 512 K of ram, a 360 KB 5 and a quater inch disk drive, a 10 meg MFM hard drive, which was VERY noisey. It also had a lovely green monochrome screen. I also seem to remember it having a daughterboard which took the form of a slightly faster CPU and an everex cache card. I think the CPU ran at a lowly 4 MHz, but it could have been 2. We later upgraded the screen to a 14 inch EGA display, seeing some of the games I had played in green screen in colour was quite a shock ! We also upgraded the hard drive from the 10 meg (as we'd filled it !) to a 20 meg drive.

It wasn't long after that, maybe 6 - 8 months that particular PC started geeling slow and someone Dad worked with gave him a load of motherboards and hard drives and some memory to go with them. We soon had a Tandom 286 16 MHz with 1 meg of RAM running and a 40 Meg (Yes 40 Meg !!!) hard drive running.

Oh how I miss the days of Dos 5.0, EMS and XMS Ram.

[Great Eastern]

Thinking of Green Screen. In the 1980s my Dads counsin who ran a computer shop gave him a Kaypro 4.

I think they called it a portable computer - the size of a suitcase with a screen and two floppy drives in this large box with a keyboard which cliped to the front.

[Will Smith]

My current PC is my first personal pc but our first family PC was something like a P3 500mhz, 128mb ram and a 20gb hdd and cost a ridiculous amount back in the day. Something like £1100

[Great Eastern]

Back in the Day??! That Spec (P3) would be from only 10 years ago. OK a little obsolete now, but not a dinosaur like some of the computers posted here.

you young 'uns today....

[Doanh]

Oh blimey,
Olivetti PC1, no HDD, dual 3.5" floppy.
What a waste of money...
But I am showing my age now.