What was your first PC?

[notsobig]

My first computer was NEC PC-8801mkII which I bought when I was in high school. It cost something like 350quid second hand in 1987. Good old days My first PC was p166 Acer system which I bought from PC World(lol) and I strip it apart and couldn't put it back together(curiocity killed the cat) so I had to buy exactly the same model just to see which cable goes where

[Rev_Hill]

First PC : Elonex DX2 66mhz.

What a beaut!

Rev

[Dorza]

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??

It was called Slot A if thats what you mean. Intel had Slot 1 back in those days.

[obvious]

First PC was a £1000 (second hand) 486 DX2 66Mhz (same as Rev_Hill ) with a 1GB! SCSI!! hard drive. Boy did that thing run Doom well.

[Rev_Hill]

I remember spending a fortune on that Elonex, probably about the same price as my dual core pc I have now.

Wolfenstein ruled!

Rev

[Dakaras]

Very 1st computer was a ZX81 with a 16k ram pack
Followed by a speccy, then an atari 512k.

1st PC was a 386 thing dunno specs

Then P200

Then K6 400

[kidzer]

First machine, if I remember correctly was:

Fujutsu PC of some sort
Pentium 166Mhz CPU
32Mb RAM
5GiB HD
Onboard Video and Sound
15" Monitor

something like that anyways!

It was amazing when it was upgraded to 64Mb of RAM!

[teachmech]

Started with an Acron Electron then a spectrum 128 +3. After that the PC's started
486XS 25 with 4 Mb
486 Dx2 66 with 16 Mb
Pentium 100 with 32 Mb
Cyrix P166+ with 64 Mb + Matrox Mystique
P2 300 with 128 MB + Voodoo3 3000
Athlon 750 with 256 Mb Geforce 2
Athlon xp 2800+ with 1Gb Geforce 6600GT
Athlon64 3200 (s754) with 2Gb + 6800GT
Current x2 4600 Am2 with 2Gb + 7900GT

All self builds except the original 486 (compuadd) and the P2 (Time).

Edit:- Still running a room of 486's with 4MB and wfw3.11 on dos 6 in a school.

[SourceQuench]

Those were the days...

My first computer was a VIC-20 (which I still have somewhere) with a 16K RAM Cartridge.

My first PC was a 486 SX 25MHz, the CPU of said PC was later made into a keyring (damn that's sad!)

[MiLaMber]

I started very late on the pc front.
Mine was a Pentium 3 ( i think ), 700 Mhz or so. Man I cant even remember how much mem it hard but was nothing to shout about

[tickedon]

486 DX2, think it was about 75mhz or so. 16mb ram, 200mb hard drive, 2mb trident graphics card. 1993.

1998... P2 300mhz, 64mb, 6.4gb, 8mb Ati Rage Pro <- When computers finally became usable imo

[silent]

First was c64 then first pc was 166 m m x then my first pc was a k6 job off my mate. Been building them myself ever since. Now have a core 2 duo 6300 which has died now. No signal but worked 1 hr ago. Thanks windows update

[scrandman]

ZX Spectrum 48k
ZX Spectrum 128k
C64
Generic IBM 286 clone
Pentium 166 MMX
PIII 1GHz
Athlon XP2500
Athlon XP3200
AMD Opteron 64 146 @ 2400 (can do 2800)

[mdg900]

First computer was an IBM PS/2 286, then a PII 350MHz! Was quite an upgrade!

[aidanjt]

PII 266Mhz with a whopping 96mb of RAM.

[Mattus]

First computer my dad brought home was a Toshiba 286 laptop, with monochrome screen, 1MB RAM and an 8Mhz CPU which reached a whopping 12Mhz in turbo mode - your battery life would suffer for it though! I was 3 at the time and thought it was awesome.

Then we moved onto an Elonex desktop - 386, 16Mhz, with 2MB RAM which we later upgraded to 4MB. That probably saw me through primary school. The next upgrade was a 486 25Mhz with 586 overdrive taking it to 100Mhz, packing 32MB RAM (which was quite a lot for the time!) A couple of years later we got hold of an AMD K6-2 450 machine, which was kept running for as long as possible before my father gave in and purchased a self-built system off a guy at work - AMD XP2100 CPU with 512MB RAM and a Geforce2 GTS, at the time still a pretty sweet graphics card.

That was the system that got me interested in hardware - I spent ages trying to overclock it, though it was a Palomino core so I didn't get very far. I'd been saving up and researching parts for my first self-build - I settled on an XP2500 CPU on an NF7-S mobo. After a year or two of tinkering I replaced it with this system - A64 3200, 1GB RAM, 6600GT. It's looking a bit dated but the C2D upgrade is so pricey