What was your first PC?

[Horus9339]

Well I must be honest and say it was a Spectrum 48k with the rubber keyboard and it got so hot I'm sure we all sat around it on cold nights to keep warm. I must have spent days typing in programms to find they never worked, loading games up with a tape player which could take 5-10 mins to find they would crashed 5-10 seconds away from loading. What a great experience, NOT, but hey it was better than the ZX81.
I went through Amegas, Atari ST, and then too many home builds to mention, have stuck with AMD since they sorted themselves out in the mid 90's, nVidia graphics cards except one ATI (never liked it) now on my second 64bit in one year on top of about 4 32bit pc's this year also, they just kept blowing up this year, very sad to watch an old friend pass on (they weren't even over clocked). Still have a Spectrum an Amega and an ST in storage sad but true.

[Olly1234]

Started with a Vic 20 (Tape)
Atari 65xe (Tape)
Atari 520STe with 4MB + 40MB HD!
Cyrix(?) dx2 66MHZ 16MB
Custom P1 100Mhz 16MB, 750MB HD
Time Machine 2100+ - 512MB, 40GB HD
Custom Athlon XP 3200+ - 1GB -500GB HD
Currently Custom Core Duo 6600 - 2GB, 600GB HD

Out of all of them the ST had to be the best for pure gameplaying, they just don't make em like that anymore! ;-)

[killie99]

A good old acorn electron as I was a poor student and couldn't afford a BBC. Then it was an Atari 520 which I upgraded to 4Mb of memory and a 20Mb hard drive - it took about 4 hours to format the drive!
Sold that and bought a 486 25SX with no cache but I didn't care as it still ran Doom ok. Bought an 8 bit sound card and a 2x CDRom for it for £200 and it took me a whole weekend of faffing around to get it to work.
After that I've lost track as I've had so many that I've built and changed as my needs changed. Sitting today with a Compaq server, a Dell 5150 and a Dell 6000 as I just don't have the time to mess around like I used to before 3 kids arrived on the scene.

[Steve B]

my first computer was an A4 refil pad with a stick of ddr stuck to the front

[Fabula]

Something like this:
Atari ST 520FM. Fantastic gaming machine, and good with cubase as well.

486/25. Later added an overdrive taking it to 50mhz, and boosted ram to 8meg to enable me to play L30 of Doom2 (which was very stuttery with only 4meg ram). Also put in a soundblaster-pro, which made Monkey island 2 sound amazing!

P233mmx. Can't remember much about it. Think I put a voodoo banshee in.

Celeron 466. With TNT2-ultra and eventually 512meg ram!

Athlon 700(Slot A). Very nice machine and overclocked well. Think I put a Gf2-GTS in.

AthlonXP2000+. Still working well. Originally had a ti4200, but changed to a 9800XT.

[uk_sam]

Er let me think,

An Intel 386 33MHz with B&W monitor, 40Mb Hard disk and 1Mb RAM
Ha those were the days.

[pmanington]

my first computer would be a speccy 48k

First pc was a 486 dx33 with a kelvin 64 graphics card in it. Mostly for doom
My next pc was a pentium 133 but that was at the time of pentium 3's arriving so it was a tad behined the cutting edge, i upgraded it to a k62-450 with an nvidia tnt graphics card. Then onto a thunderbird 700 with a geforce 2 gts in it. Then an athlon xp 2400 with a 9700 pro. That lasted me until about 2 months ago where i picked up a nice new core 2 duo 6800 with an x1950xtx mmmmmm

[Nick F]

I had a commodore 64 with a tape drive. I remember games taking 30 minutes to load and then for me to die 10 seconds into a game. I didn't play it for long

My first real PC was a top of the range Tiny gaming PC though

[chuckskull]

Amazing how many people have had tiny/time machines and they still went bust

I had a 2.4ghz celeron+9600 machine off them a few years back. was actually pretty good. joys of being skint and having to have your parents by you a computer

[alsenior]

the thing it that people bought these when they were young/naive or didn't have a say in the matter

[magneticman]

time

AMD Athlon 750mhz
128mb ram
24gb HD

thing is i had this until about 2 months ago lmao it was terrible, and the cpu socket type was weird, does anyone know what its called when you slot a processor in sideways with permanent HSF??

[baligavinod]

intel p4 1.7 GHz
845 gbv mobo
256mb DDR ram
onboard graphics

[phoenix198]

First 'computer': a Commodore 64. Still had it up until about seven years ago when 'er indoors insisted that it go during yet another house move <sigh>

First PC: a Compaq Presario 'all in one' with a 14 inch screen shaped like a goldfish bowl, a blazing 486SX33 processor, 4MB RAM, 512kb of onboard VRAM, onboard sound (if you could call it that), 80MB hard drive and floppy disk drive, running Windows 3.1 No CD Drive. And all for the 'bargain' price of something over £900 ....

The time and money I lavished on that machine back in 1994-96! Eventually I think I got it up to a DX2-66, 16MB RAM, a 210MB hard drive, a SCSI external CD-ROM, and Windows 95 (floppy disk edition!)

I laugh now, but the damn thing got me started on this addiction ...

[excalibur2]

Spectrum erm was it 32K memory.........the chess game supplied on tape used to cheat as if you got it into a check mate position, it used to hang until you got fed up waiting, so it never conceded defeat.

[Puncr0c]

Spectrum erm was it 32K memory.........the chess game supplied on tape used to cheat as if you got it into a check mate position, it used to hang until you got fed up waiting, so it never conceded defeat.

lol

How many of u have still got ur speccy's? My 128K +2 is still in the loft with all the games. Unfortunately it's missing the play button off the tape recorder, but u can still play tapes using a knife into the vacant keyhole I've also got a box full of Your Sinclair magazines

[excalibur2]

***My 128K +2 is still in the loft with all the games***

Manic miner was one of the hardest game I've come across (because it sent you back to the beginning if you failed a level) and I could only win by cheating, by putting codes into the computer for unlimited goes.