What was your first PC?

[shiato storm]

amstrad pc 1512...it played elite. it was enough.

[Jonny M]

Dell Dimension XPS D266 (I think)

266MHz Intel Pentium (with MMX!)
4GB Maxtor HDD
Windows 95
15" monitor
But it had an Intellimouse!

All for the tidy sum of about 2 grand.

[gaida]

Intel 8086 640k RAM, 5 1/4" 360K Floppy, Green/Black/White monitor
Intel 80286 1Mb Ram, 5 1/4" 1.2Mb FDD, 20MB HDD,CGA Monitor

[shaithis]

First real PC was:

AMD 386 40MHz
2MB RAM
40MB Hard drive
Trident 256K VGA
SoundBlaster 2

and it was the bomb at the time

[Pdog]

486 DX2 66 Mhz 8Mb of Ram. My Dad had a receipt for a memory upgrade I think it was for 8Mb of RAM for £250!!!!


This was obviously way abck in the day

[pinchez]

My first Real PC was some sort of Viglen thing which was a 386 upgraded to a 486DX40 with 4mb ram it was a strange beast and spent most of it's time on the floor in a corner as it ketp crashing plus i also had a fantastic Amiga setup at the time.

I later found the cause of the crashing, It needed a Cpu Heatsink and fan. £18 later and my new found interest took over and made my Amiga redundant lol

[Hans Voralberg]

Pentium MMX thing, no idea about the rest of the spec, cant blame me, was 9 back then

[manwithnoname]

Depending on your definition of PC .. ZX spectrum 16k it was Christmas present 1982 was delivered in Mid October got it out of the box turned it on, saw the flash of black and then the white screen and the copyright message ... then back in the box till Christmas day torture!

If a PC is some kind of IBM clone then hand built ordered way back when this was a very good PC ~£1200...
14" monitor!
P120 (non mmx)
1.6 GB drive
16MB EDO RAM memory price crash mean the 8MB in the buget could be doubled
1MB Diamond stealth
soundblaster (32AWE I think)
CD x4 DRIVE
and the best bit 10mbit network card for DOOM!

[dave87]

I think my first PC was a Viglen - P133 MMX - 32mb of Ram Soundblaster, 8x CD-ROM and 1Gb hard disk. Not sure on graphics, ATi Rage possibly??

Played with a Commodore waaay before that though

[Lakeuk]

Start of Non-PC with borrowed Commadore Pet and Commadore Vic20, then was bought a Commadore 64.

Now proper PC:-

1) Amstrad 2086 - came with 20Mb hard disk
2) 486DX2 66
3) PII400, 64Mb (upgraded over the years to 192Mb)
4) Core 2 Duo E6600, 2Gb

as you can see I don't upgrade that often

[Hottentot]

A Commodore PET -

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=191

I saved hard and got the 16Kb version (8 Kb was at least a hundred quid)

[Dorza]

My first computer was a Commodore 64 the one with the full size keyboard, forget the model now. Have some good memories playing games on that, they were great although for some reason I went through three power packs, they just kept going for me, don't know why.

First proper PC was:

Pentium 233 Mhz with ground breaking MMX instructions.
64MB SDRAM
4GB Quantium Hard Drive
Titanium motherboard - I believe thats the correct manufacturer.
ATI video card
4MB! Voodoo 1 Graphics Card
Soundblaster Sound Card
17" Sony Multiscan 200SX Monitor
Windows 95 Version 2 - Posh!

Its amazing how things move on, and it was only 9 years ago.

[Thorsson]

Let's see: ZX81, Spectrum, Atrari ST, Amiga, IBM X86, Compaq X86 Portable (weighed an absolute ton), 286 (these last 3 in glorious mono), 386DX with EGA, 486DX, Pentium I, etc. etc. etc........

[UpTheToon]

Sinclair ZX82 with the built in tape reader... a few nintendo consoles later... then a 166 mmx beast! With a 2gb hard drive which was assured to be all the space i'd ever need. That wasn't quite true...

[g8ina]

I built my first computer (not a PC), it was a 2000 solder joint circuit board with a 6502 on it with numeric keypad. Can't remember the name right now, but was made by Lucas I think. This was in the early 80's when I was at Plessey.

I used the Rhode & Schwarz PPC there too - a Commodore "Superpet" in badged mode with 64k RAM and an 8" floppy and BASIC. We used it as an IEEE488 test bench controller.

I moved on thru the Sinclair toys (writing stuff in machine code on the way), and later Commodires (sic) and Amigas, to my first real PC which was really late in 1995 !! A rubbishy thing with no name.

Then I started to upgrade, and have never looked back

[cotswoldcs]

First was an Amstrad CPC with multidrive & 3" floppy drive & green screen (later upgraded to a modulator and TV.

Olivetti 8086 10Mhz, 640Kb RAM, 20Mb HDD , 3.5" FDD, 14" VGA Monitor

Evesham 486SX 25Mhz, 4Mb RAM, 100Mb HDD, 14" SVGA Upgraded to 486DX2-66 & 8Mb RAM !!!

Scan Pentium 100, 100Mhz, 8Mb EDO RAM, 850Mb HDD, 15" SVGA

Evesham Pentium II-450, 450Mhz, 128Mb SDRAM, 10Gb HDD, 8Mb AGP, 19" CRT

Custom Build - Duron 800, OC to 1,000Mhz, 128Mb RAM, 2 x 30Gb RAID 0 HDD, 128Mb ATI 8500, 19" CRT

Custom Build - AlthonXP-1500, 256Mb, 2 x 30Gb RAID 0 HDD, 128Mb ATI 8500, 19" CRT

Custom Build - AthlonXP 2100, 512Mb, 40Gb, 128Mb ATI 9500, 1 x 19" TFT & 1 x 19" CRT

Custom Build - Pentium 4 3.0Ghz Northwood @3.4Ghz, 1.5Gb DDR, 150Gb Raptor, 128Mb nVidia 6600GT, 2 x 19" TFT