What was your first PC?

[shadowmaster]

It was a Gateway, Pentium 2 233Mhz I think- cost over £2000 then!!! I was very young then so I dont remember the exact specs.

The case was really solid to- complete metal, weighed over a ton, and was bloody massive, about 70cm in height, very solid.

[callius]

IBM 16 mhz 286 , turbo button to drop it to 8mhz because lots of apps couldnt cope with amassive 16mhz, i had 2 or 4 * 1/4 Mb simms.

Did have older laptop with an orange screen before that running dos but no idea what it was, dad got it from work, then again i am 31 yrs old.

[kungpo]

My first computer was a ZX80 that my dad bought as a kit. My first "proper" computer was an Amiga 1500. My first Windows PC was Dell Dimension Pentium 75 with a whole 8mb of ram and a 500mb HD! Cost £1549 + VAT at the time with the monitor upgraded to a 15"!

[Ciber]

My first computer like many was a zx81. My first PC was an amstrad 8086, used to play civilisation on it for hours and hours, very addictive.

[Salazaar]

My first computer was a BBC micro with a green screen monitor and then an Atrai ST. My first PC was a strange 386DX in what was probably one of the first small form factor cases, it was about the size of a shoe box.

[Breezey]

My first pc was dell dimension P4 2.8,768mb ram onboard graphics which i upgraded to a pci FX5200 i thought was amazing, then had my first custom built pc A64 3500,Geforce 6200,120gb, then i got P4 3.2, 1gb ram, geforce 6600GT, A64X2 3800, 2gb ram, 7900gt , core 2 duo E6300, 2gb ram, 7900gt and niow i have the rig in my sig

[acro666]

First PC an Atari which has a large notice on the base that declares it has 16kb memory. It is still in my loft and I think my wife bought it for me in the very early 80's, probably before most of you guys were born. I also still have, I think, in the loft the slot-in games; square balls and flat bats.

regards

acro666

[Buzzsaw]

An Acorn Electron.
Used the TV as its monitor, and a tape drive to load games- no HDD.
I can still remember writing my first programs, all of 4 lines of code!
And my favourite game, Deathstar.

Then I upgraded to the mindblowing power of a 286, with a 20Mb HDD!

[p4ul]

My first pc was prebuilt, and made by advent. It had a p3 733mhz, 128mb ram and an Nvidia TNT2 32mb gfx card. 20Gb HD which lasted me ages too!

It cost me £999

[Bluecube]

A Speccy 48k+... Ah the memories! My first PC as in a Wintel machine was a P133 with a stonking 16Mb of memory complete with massive 15" monitor. Windows 95 ran great At the time you couldn't do any better for the money and it cost the grand total of £2,100.

[paradidle]

My first was a Pentium 3 800mhz. 17" Monitor, 20g HD, 256mb RAM and some gpu card I can't remember. Was about 7 years ago.

My system now is an E6400, 1gig 5200 ram, 150gb hd, 7900GT 256mb, ASUS Deluxe mobo. Soooon to be updated once more

**Edit**

WAIT WAIT....does this include the old Commadore 64's and the Amigas?? Cos I had both the 64 and 500+! Those were the days!

[edp33]

BBC Micro 32k, remember typing in code what seemed to be like 1000+ lines from magazines to make games like asteroids etc, ... always made a spelling mistake somewhere pfft..!

Had the BBC for ages as my friends all had Atari ST's and Amigas while I still had my BBC Later on got a 486DX33, the PC started to shine shortly after that, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Origin games

[mart_haj86]

Mine was an Amiga Commodore 2000 with a whopping 7mhz CPU a family hand me down, after that I got my time machine which IIRC was a 233 cyrix, But I never got too interested in PCs until the time machine did the inevitable and went to the fiery pits of hell, after searching for the cheapest way of having a new PC was to build it myself. Now im addicted and my bank hates me.

[Webby]

My first computer was a Toshiba MSX came with a cartridge slot and a tape player ah the hours of fun playing pinball! That and programming ASCII art! Then an Amstrad with a green screen ah Postman what a cracking game, shortly followed by a 286 then a 386 a 486 and then an original Athlon! Then 7 or 8 years later here we are with a C2D and I'm sure the games were as fun back in the late 80's as they are today maybe not as pretty but definitely just as fun!

[Lucio]

My first PC was a 486 66MHz DX2, with 4MB of RAM and a HDD so small you were lucky to get a game on alongside Windows

Many happy hours were spent playing with the memory configuration and I remember one classic moment when I decided to install this disc called OS/2 that came free with a PC magazine....

[Choo Choo]

Mine was a computer from Time, and it was pretty much top of the range back then. The specs were:

Intel Pentium II MMX 266Mhz
64MB RAM
6.4GB Hard Drive
DVD ROM
4MB ATI Rage II
15" CRT monitor
Windows 95