What spec was your first PC?

[no_numb]

First family computer was an amiga then a 386 then 486. My first one personally was a 850mhz beast bought in 2000 from underagrand.com

[sjbuck]

486 DX 66 with 4MB RAM, think it had an 80MB HD. Eventually unpgraded to a massive 20MB of RAM for use with 3D studio (in DOS!)

[CX23882-19]

Amstrad PC2086 - Intel 8086 CPU, 640kB memory, 30MB hard disk (absolute nightmare of a disk), 3.5" 720kB floppy drive running Windows 2.03 and GEM Desktop. Before that, I had a Commodore 64.

The Amstrad lasted a long time until getting a Pentium 133 with 16MB RAM, ATI Video Expression (Mach 64), 1.2GB hard disk and 16x CD-ROM drive running Windows 95.

[Zak33]

Pentium 1 133 16mb ram and a trio pci card :-)

[oolon]

486 DX66 32 MB of memory, 1.3GB hard disk (scsi), QIC 150 tape drive and a 17" Sony Trinitron monitor and a 1 speed CD drive (scsi), cost me over £4k. I love how hardware costs have come down...

[Nick Smith]

Can't remember my first family pc.

Mine was:
E6300, Gigabyte DS-3, 2GB PC6400 (which i'm still running!), 320GB HDD, nVidia 7600GT.

[Cheapy]

A Athlon 3000+ @2.2GHz, 80Gb hardrive,128Mb 9700pro AGP graphics card and 512Mb of RAM. Worked well for 4 years only this year did the trusty 9700 finally die on me.

[Sputnik]

Pentium 2 300Mhz, 64mb Memory, Nvidia graphics card, 6 gig hard drive, 32x cd Rom drive.

[chilled]

Pentium 120, 16MB of EDO RAM, 1GB HDD, on board graphics, Creative ISA sound from Colossus computers.

[switchmode]

The PC as we know it was born in the very early 1980's, some of you may not have even been born then and it may seem a long time ago, but its not long really..

I worked on the first PC's as a field service engineer, parts where called FRU's Field Replacable Units by IBM. The two main machines called PCs was the IBM and the Compaq (big luggable case size) and there was also the Olivetti M24 which was very smart as Italian design is mostly. There was also many other micro computers as they was called. The first games I remember was pinball and MS flight sim very basic

I digress the first one I had to pay for other than bought to sell on was a 486 sx colour monitor so basic it was so limited, soon upgraded to a 486 dx 4Mb ram and VESA local bus graphics cirrus I think and a 2 speed CD rom and a copy of Myst, plus sound. I can't remember what size the H disk drive was but less than 500 Mb then.

[peterb]

!st computer was a Nascom 2 - 4MHz CPU, but I did have an expansion card for 48K RAM, and I later built a 5 inch floppy subsystem working off a PIO card - no disk operating system as such, to save to the floppy you had to enter the memory range and the start sector.

First PC was a Compaq laptop, 16 line screen (iirc) a 286 and a 10Mb hard drive. I added an extra 1Mb RAM to take it above the built in 1Mb, and added the custom modem (2,400 baud) which I bought second hand for a small fortune! I dread to think what it cost in today's prices

[sawyen]

first ever computer was an Apple IIe (given to me by my school for my grades), was hideously useless other than for a game of load runner..

First USEFULL pc, 486SX, 2MB RAM and a UBER BIG 12MB HDD

[benjus]

First computer was a ZX Spectrum+

First PC was a 286 with 1MB RAM, a 40MB hard disk and VGA graphics. It came with a selection of DOS programs, and I later installed Windows 3.0

[pinocchio]

Commodore Pet (The old calculator keyboard version).

I used to work for a retailer in Tottenham Court Road in the late '70s so had the opportunity to play with lots of different machines (including some that very few people on here will remember).

The Best/Worst one I remember from those days was a machine called the Compucolor (I think it was actually the Compucolor II), an American machine in a TV type housing, it had full colour and some great games, however it suffered one major design flaw in that if anything blew on it it's earthing used to run through the motherboard and therefore take out everything in site. We loved the machine but the failure rate was over 70%.

Machines that I played with in those early days.....

CBM PET
Apple ][ (pre disk drive version) - and it's clone the ITT 2020
Dragon
Atom
Various CBM machines, 64, Vic-20, Amiga etc...
Compucolor
ZX-80/81/Spectrum

I could go on but I think that's enough for now.