What was your first PC?

[dgr]

the st rocked - it had thundercats!!!!!!!!!!

[Jonny M]

P200 MMX


But was given a Compaq Deskpro 286 with DOS before that.

[s1lv3r]

amiga 500 with second floppy drive!! , was blessed with having my uncle work from our study as an office.. had loads of PC's in there to play around on... started off buying panrix rig's.. cyrix 166 was my first personal purchase, then it was a pentium 233, then £2500 on the highest spec rig of the day a PII 400, with on-board SCSI-3, SCSI hdd's... etc, then started on athlon's.. slot-a 600, then a socket-a 1gig t-bird, then a 1700+ pally, and now a 1700+ t-bred.. all representing different machines... tried watercooling for a bit, but got bitten by the SFF bug.

[Big RICHARD]

ZX Spectrum! Loading programs from tape was always fun!

[Nacrisa]

A BBC... then an Acorn A5000 (I spent ages playing the demos on the cover disks of Acorn magazines- Car Wars was the bestest!)... then a 486DX-50 (fond memories of Theme Park remain).

[directhex]

ast advantage adventure 6066d

8mb ram, dual speed cd, 486DX2, SB16, 273mb hard disk, win3.1 with a custom shell

--jo

[Rys]

First proper x86 PC running Windows? I had a 2nd hand Ambra 386DX, I think @ 50MHz, 8MB of mem. It ran Doom! Oh the joys of custom DOS boot disks just to run games.

Rys

[sputnik found]

Amiga 1200+ hehe. Didn't use it much tho, only like 2-3times a yr, as my parents didn't let us use it, and it was stored in the loft.

[bertie]

First was some Acorn, just used to play demo games like some guy above me - then several years later a 100mhz mac, then a P200 with MMX!
Cor, I wonder how much all this lot cost at the time :/

[telfer12000]

Apparently £499.99 (which was a huge amount of dosh in 1983 so I'm continually told) for an green screen Amstrad (c 464 I think?)which bored me rigid

[PanzerKnight]

some acorn effort
had this cool game of u trying to get a frog to cross the road dodging trafic, was asweome
then hit the 386 sx 33mhz and onwards

[Aaron]

Amstrad 386SX 20Mhz. Then I moved onto a Time (awful, I know) 486-DX4 100Mhz, then a Special Reserve (not much better) P-200Mhz, then an Advent P2-400Mhz, then a Dell P3-500Mhz and finally my current custom-built AMD XP2200+.

[ice]

First PC was a NEC Powermate SX/16 with a 386 at 16Mhz and 2MB of ram and 110MB HDD,ran Win 3.1 very slowly

[Ravens Nest]

My first PC was a AST Advantage
486 DX2 66, 8MB EDO ram, 512MB HD, Soundblaster 16.
State of the art

It could play Day of the tentacle, Xwing, Ultima underworld, Leisure suit larry, System shock..
(Why do these old games seem better than a lot of the new ones)

Was bought for a grand total of 1,500 pounds, and was upgrade less than 6 months later to a DX4 100mhz for another 250.

[gilgamesj]

move this to question time x-D

lol

[KraniX]

Amstrad

486 SX2 50Mhz
4MB RAM
270MB HDD
2X CD ROM
14" Monitor

Classy machine... lol.

I have some fun memories of it though, tie fighter, SWOS and the lucasarts adventure games.