Post the specs from your first computer and the price

[BurnItDwn]

The first one I paid for (and my first build) was one I built about 6 months or so after I got my first job (Around September or October of 1996 (I was 16 at the time))

Cyrix p200+ @166mhz @ some craptastic socket 7 board ... about $200 I believe ... Computer Show
32mb of SDram ... about $250 Computer Show
4.3gb Quantum Bigfoot IDE drive ... about $300 Computer Show
4mb S3 vidcard ... about $50 ... ebay
4x IDE CDROM drive ... about $40 ... ebay
Zoltrix 28.8k modem ... about $30 ... Computer Show
Yamaha Sound blaster 16 clone ... about $20 ... Computer Show
Microsoft 2 button PS2 mouse ... $8 ... Computer Show

freebies ...
14inch Svga monitor (I got this for free, ripped it off of my old 486DX that I got free from my moms friends work ... they were gonna throw it away .. I got it around 1994 or 1995 I think)
Keyboard ... 101 key AT style IBM Model M (I still have this keyboard) came with the 486
Epson 9 pin dot matrix printer ... My aunt was going to throw it away


That CPU was SOOOOO slow ... it handled Duke Nukem 3d very well, it handled Quake pretty decently, however, my friends p120 overclocked to 133mhz handled Quake a lot better.

A month or so after it hit the market, I added a Canopus Pure3D to that machine ... and Quake looked fantastic. When Quake2 came out ... It ran like a slug on that machine though, so around that time I upgraded to an AMD K6 233 and a new mobo.

Also in late 97/ early 98 I upgraded to 2 x 64MB sticks of ram and added a 10GB Maxtor drive.

That was my primary rig until I upgraded to my Bh6 with a Celeron 300A (Mostly because Half Life came out .. and ran poorly on my k6 233)

 

[brigden]

486 DX
33MHz
1MB RAM
100MB HDD

$3000.00

 

[PClark99]

First:

Pentium 233MMX
PC Chips AT Intel chipset board
64MB EDO Ram
Virge S3 4MB Video Card
16X CDRom
4.3 GB Hard drive
Noname soundcard
Noname 56k modem

Current:
P4 2.8C@3500
Asus P4C800E Deluxe
2 x 512 PC4000
EVGA 6800GT
16X DVD Rom
4X DVD-R
120 GB and 200 GB Hard drives
Audigy ZS
Leadtek TV/FM
Motorola Cable modem

 

[jadinolf]

I'll give my first Windows computer

486 DX4-100
16 Megs of Ram
1.6 Gig HDD
4X Cd ROM Drive
14.4 Modem
14" Monitor
Win 3.1
Cheap Speakers

$1600

I still have the case which now contains a P233MMX and is mothballed

 

[SneakyStuff]

Some old apple that looked like a cube, for the LOW LOW price of $4000!!! Blacn and white enver looked so sexah!

 

[Scouzer]

The first computer I paid for with my own money when I was 11 or 12...

Celeron 433
Asus MEL-M
64mb of RAM
4gb HD
40x CDROM
16mb TNT2 M64
15" Proview Monitor

$1150 CDN.

 

[pulse8]

I think this is what I had:

386 16Mhz
16mb of ram
60mb HD
5.25" floppy
XGA video

I think my father paid ~$1500 for it. Not sure, though. this was a long time ago.

 

[naruto1988]

sony viao

P1 200 mhz
32 megs EDO ram
2 or 3 gig HDD
2 meg vidcard (?)
15" monitor
$4000
upgraded w/ 32 more ram

it ran mechwarrior 1 and wipeout :-D

 

[JulesMaximus]

I paid about $1100 for a Packard Bell 486DX2-66 which came with a whopping 8MB RAM back in 1994. I went to a computer swap meet a couple months later and dropped $130 on another 8MB of RAM bumping my system up to a smoking 16MB of RAM. :roll: I think I even bragged about it....

That wasn't actually my first computer though, just the first that I bought with my own money. My first computer was a TRS-80 with 16k memory (if my memory serves correctly) back in 1979 when I was all of 12 years old. That was truly my first computer.

 

[Eli]

My very first PC was an XT, but it was free.

The first computer I ever bought was a 486SX/25 with 4mb ram, TWO(!) 40mb HDDs and a VGA monochrome monitor.

Cost was about 300$ all together.

This was back when Pentium 133's were top of the line.

 

[LeetViet]

386 16Mhz, 2MB of RAM, 40MB hard drive, 14" Compaq Monitor, 9600baud modem...
I got this for free before I bought my first machine.

First Windows/bought machine was Pentium 100Mhz, 16MB EDO (later upgraded to 32MB), 1GB, 1MB unknown video card (later upgraded to 2MB ATI 3D Xpression+ PCI), 16" (yes 16"!) Nec MultiSync, 4X CDrom, 3.5" Floppy, 33.6Kbps Zoltrix modem
$499 CDN (excluding tax)

 

[Svnla]

The one I paid with my own money:

Pent I 166Mhz Dell Dimension, 32MB RAM, 4MB Video, 10GB HD, 15" monitor, CD ROM, Win 95. I paid about $600 from my company (they were replacing these old computers).

 

[chuckywang]

Sony Vaio PCV-130

PII 200 Mhz w/MMX
32mb RAM
ATI Rage II+ vid card
4.3 GB hard drive
17'' Trinitron Sony Monitor
Lots of software

Cost? Oh, around 1800 dollars.

 

[Manzelle]

Piece of sh!t Dell 486-SX 33MHz - 4MB RAM - 170MB HDD w/ Windows 3.1 and I can't remember what else...
I think it was around $1300 back in early 1994...

 

[caivoma]

compaq, 500 mghz pentium 3, 64 mb ram, 17' monitor,

 

[Doboji]

Emerson Brand:

AMD 80286 12mhz
4MB RAM
40MB Harddrive
14" SVGA Monitor

Yeah that was tha fastest thing on my block... it was a gift from my godfather.

-Max

 

[0roo0roo]

286
2mb ram.. or was that 1.. i can't remember
20mb full height harddrive that weighed as much as a bowling ball
2 5" floppy
hercules monochrome video, full length

ugh..bad memories

 

[Doboji]

actually I only had 1 mb of ram... I remember because I was using Highmem utilities, and some other stuff to try and break the 640K barrier. Got up to somewhere around 706K if I remember correctly...

Ohhh and I was running STACKER on my harddrive so that 40MB turned into 80... oh yes.,.. I was the shiznit envy of all my friends....

-Max

 

[0roo0roo]

didn't dos 6 or whatever have a hd compression bit? mem hazy, but yes, juggling conventional and all that other cr@p memory stuff in dos was just so not fun. remember #%@ programs not running because u didn't have enough of the conventional mem free or whatever.

edit, i'm mixing up 386-486 level dos stuff bah.. its all a blur

 

[Doboji]

Yeap all true... and 6.0 came with compression tools... but than they yanked it from 6.22. However I was running DOS 5.1 AND Windows 3.1. However I didnt start in windows... Windows was something I would start up when I wanted it... most everything else I did from the Command Line.

PFS: Quickmenu was the bomb diggity bomb bomb.

As for the memory issues... there was this guy who wrote this book called "The Ultimate Secret Guide to Computers" Russ somebody or other... He left his personal phone number on the back of the book... poor bastard got harassed by me. His book had all kinds of cool tips on handling conventional memory.

Ahhh remember the days of downloading GIFs on the 2400 modem?

-Max

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

I have you all beat! our first family computer was a Commodore VIC-20, 3.5kb of RAM, no monitor...only a keyboard with built in "processor" and tv video output, it saved saved data on a audio cassette.

My first computer I bought with my own money was from a computer show in 1996 .....AMD 120mhz, 32mb RAM, 600mb hd & crappy ISA video with 15 monitor for $600 I also got warcraft demo on 1 floppy for $3. (don't get me started on Duke!)

 

[0roo0roo]

heh yea but 6.0 came out way after... i got mixed up with 386/486 level stuff.

i can't even remember what version dos i used with 286, i was wee then. i only remember 5-6.x diskettes.

Cyrix p200+ @166mhz @ some craptastic socket 7 board

hah i had one of those. was quite fast when it first came out. cheap too. before that my 486 could only play an mp3 at mono 1/4 quality heh. yea pretty sad stuff. course almost no one knew what mp3 was. the cyrix did well until quake came out and r@ped it for its weak ass fpu..then cyrix was no longer a contender

 

[thatsright]

In Feb 96, I bought my first real PC

P150mhz
1.6Gig WD Caviar HD
32MB EDO Ram
4MB Diamond 3D Vid Card
8X CD Rom drive
17" MAG Monitor
Win 95
Integrated Modem/Audio

All this cost me the grand total of $3,300!!

Last week, I finally threw the thing out in the trash, it was all taken apart and beat up.

 

[Anubis]

386
400 mb HD
4 mges of ram
dos
floppy

over 3000$

 

[flot]

This is pretty funny.

Apple ][e. 4 mhz. (?) 64k ram (later upgraded to 128k for $150) 180kb single sided floppy. ~$2500 I think.

I actually got by for quite a while with that.

My next PC was a 286-10. 20 mb hard drive. 640 kb RAM. $1500.

Followed by so many other computers I can't even begin to count. I probably average a new computer every year, although I've slowed down quite a bit lately. (no reason to upgrade if you don't game)