Post the specs from your first computer and the price

[GMElias]

I will do my best...granted, this is the first that "I" bought...we had a 386 at home, but my parents got that one so I have no idea how much it costs. But in highschool, I bought the following (or at least an approximation):

Gateway
Pentium III 166MHZ (I think)
64MB RAM
17" monitor (probably .28 dot pitch or so)
Gateway speakers
keyboard, mouse, microphone
CD-ROM (maybe 4x)
some random Pentium MOBO
8GB HD (or something like that)
Microsoft Software (I actually paid for it!!!🙂)
Floppy Drive
Some other things I can't remember

Paid: $3500.00 approx.!!!!!! But this was back in the mid-1990s.

 

[phantom309]

Mine was an Epson Equity 1 PC/XT 8088 with 2 floppy drives. My parents gave it to me in 1990 so it was probably worth $800 or so by then. I wish I still had it - the case was beautifully made.

 

[MegaWorks]

Pentium 100
1.2GB hd WD
16MB EDO RAM
1MB ATI mach 64 video card
4x CD-Rom
15" monitor
Win3.1 then Win95

~$1000

 

[Falloutboy]

first family computer was a IBM PS1 something or another it had a 286 proc but don't remember much else.

my first computer I purchaced my self was my Cely 366 rig boy those were great chips for thier time

 

[crazycarl]

i have had a computer since before i was old enough to know that sort of thing

 

[BurnItDwn]

When I was little ... by dad had an Apple IIE, and then a 486DX 33 ...

the first PC I bought / put together was in 1996 (I was 16) ...

Specs are ...

Cyrix P200+ (and crappy mobo) $150 to $200 ... I forget
4.3 GB Quantum Bigfoot $250
32MB SD RAM $250
4mb S3 Virge DX $50
4x cdrom drive $50
Microsoft PS2 Ball mouse $8 at a computer show ... don't ask me why I remember this ...
Yamaha YST16? generic SB pro 16bit sound card $20
Case ... $50


Ths was before the sub 1000 computer was around.
All in all, I spent around 1000

Then, when Canopus Released its Pure3D ... I bought one ... I forget if it was $99 or $199 ... but GLQuake was sooooo friggin awesome
also, not too long after that I scrapped the CPU + Mobo and installed an AMD K6-233 ...


Freebies ... 14 inch CRT, IBM Model M .. (from a 486 that I got for free when someone scrapped it)
As a bonus ... the 486 sold for $150 .... which was more than I thought I would get for it (Ebay)

 

[Freejack2]

Commodore Vic 20.
I don't even remember the specs on the thing, it had a tape drive.


First IBM PC Compatible I had was a 386sx-16mhz, with 4mb of ram, two 65mb rll 5.25" hh hard drives, 5.25 floppy, not sure if it had a 3.5", 1mb trident video card, 1024x768 14" svga monitor, and a 2400 baud supra external modem.

 

[Iron Woode]

Commodore Vic 20 with advertising by William Shatner.

It had a tape drive and 1702 monitor. Later a 1541 disk drive.

I still have that system and its functional with 5 kb of ram (3.5kb available)

I also have a C64, C128D and several other odds and ends.

 

[PowerEngineer]

I had an Atari 800 with a Basic language cartridge...

First real computer was a Gateway 386SX. I've thinking it had 8 Mb of RAM and like an 80 Mb hard drive. I added on a x1 CR-ROM external drive! As I remember it, the total cost was right around $2000 -- some things never change!

 

[TreyRandom]

Timex Sinclair 1000

$50, used

CPU: Zilog Z80A, 3.25MHz
RAM: 2K, 64K max
Display: 22 X 32 text

Not long after, I got a Vic-20, then a Commodore 64.