Post the specs from your first computer and the price

[oboeguy]

Apple ][e purchased in 1984 for multiple thousands of dollars. It was awesome to have our own computer, and I had no idea how much it aged until I went to college many years later. Clueless!

My first PC I bought used from a pal for $2k (new a year before it had been $4k+):

Pentium 60 (original floating point bug -- I have the chip in a drawer somewhere)
16MB RAM (wow!)
500MB HDD (I remember asking my friend how he would use it all... then I ran out of room when it was mine!)
1MB video memory, IIRC, on some blah ATi card
2x internal CD-ROM drive on its own controller card (not true IDE, I guess)
15" monitor curvier than the road up to l"Alpe d'Huez

I eventually added a 1.6GB HDD (teh HUGE!!), a NIC and a 28.8 modem (for on and off-campus networking). I had this baby until grad school, incredibly.

Currently, starving for an upgrade... stuck with a 1GHz P!!!.

 

[Kalvin00]

486 DX2
450 MB hard drive
4 (or 8?) MB ram
Windows 311

I think around $2000 is what it cost then.

 

[Atomicus]

pentium 1 150mhz
32mb ram
some kind of other garbage
+ some kind of garbage printer

back in the early 90s = $3k

 

[ZowieHowie]

Tandy 1000TX. I dont remember the specs, but when my dad bought it, it was like $2600. It came with a monochrome monitor, and a 20mb HDD.

He bought a 60MB HDD for something around $300 for it since the 20mb was too small. I still have both the harddrives. The system hit the trash about 3 years ago

 

[Ornery]

Original receipt from 4/15/92

 

[olds]

CPU Z80A
SPEED 3.58 MHz
COPROCESSOR Texas Instruments TMS9928A (Video display unit), Texas Instruments SN76489AN (Sound generator)
RAM 8 KB
VRAM 16 KB (8 x 4116 memory chips)
GRAPHIC MODES 259 x 192
COLORS 16
SOUND 3 tone channels, 1 noise (Texas Instruments SN76489AN)
$200

 

[DurocShark]

First computer I actually did anything with (my old TI99/4a doesn't count):

.9mhz
64k RAM
32k ROM
16 color vid chip
32 character screen


A C=64.

 

[Chaotic42]

900KHz
64K 1541 Drive
64KB RAM
11" Monitor

$900

 

[rky60]

If I remember correctly...

Gateway

P3 550Mhz
64MB PC100
TNT Model 64 16mb
20gig HDD
SB Live!
Windows 98SE
17" monitor

Think the price was around $1800

Thats all I remember

 

[jadinolf]

Here's my first Windows Box

486DX4/100
16 Meg of memory
1.2 Gig Hard Drive
4X CD ROM Drive
14.4 Modem
14" monitor
Both size floppies
$1600

 

[desiplaya4life]

COMPAQ Presario 4764

P200 MMX
32mb Ram
2.5 Gig
16x cdrom
33k modem
USB USB USB
windows 95
PROPRIETARY CASE MOTHERBOARD POWER SUPPLY EVERYTHING

awesome tower.. i still miss my old computer;(

Price: 1000-1100 with a 15in monitor i think.. it was refurb from compaq factory outlet in Houston now also gone back in 1997

UPGRADES:

Monster 3D Voodoo2 12mb
Windows 98
additional 64mb ram
lots of warez programs installed lol

 

[Dacalo]

AMD 386DX40
4MB RAM
No CD-ROM
Floppy drives
No Soundcard
15' monitor
40MB HD space
$1,200

EDIT: Trident 512K video card

 

[wiredspider]

Close to 2K for a Compaq 5050
333 MHZ Celeron
96 MB RAM (64 stick + 32 stick)
7 gig HD
"agp" but intergrated video
56K modem
plain old regular cd drive
a 15" monitor and a printer.

 

[silverpig]

P3 450
64 mb ram ($200 back then)
S3 Savage4 video
Sb Live! Value
6 gig drive
Chaintech 6BTM-L mobo
17" POS monitor
16x cdrom

Dunno how much it cost.

 

[ngvepforever2]

Pentium 100 MHZ
16MB RAM
1.28 GB hard drive
Trident 3D 1MB
Creative Labs 32 PNP
good old Epson LX300
Samsung 14' SVGA
All for only $1050.00

Regards

ng

 

[FoBoT]

first computer- Apple II 48KB of RAM, 5.25" floppy drive, 16 color display (on TV) or monichrome to 13" monitor, sound of some sort - either $1000 or $1500 i forget

first PC- Intel 386DX-33Mhz w/387 math coprocessor, 8 MB RAM ($150/MB), 210MB hard drive($359), 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy drive, 8 bit soundblaster sound card, 1MB VGA w/16 million color, 14" VGA monitor , 14.4Kbps modem ($275 just for that), Epson Dot Matrix printer, MS DOS 5.0, windows 3.1 ~$5300 total i think

 

[Hossenfeffer]

TRS-80 was the first one I worked on much.

Those wicked 8" floppies. heh.

I think it went for around $5000 with the printer.

 

[Wag]

Apple ][ >$2000

 

[Peetoeng]

IBM-AT compatible
80286-12MHz
640K RAM
40 MB HD
3.5" FD
5.25" FD
EGA monitor

$800 used!

 

[C'DaleRider]

My first was made by Epson and was an 8088 based system. Little RAM, tiny, by today's standards, hd, monochrome monitor, 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" floppies.............was great!!!! Bought it used and cannot remember what I paid.

The first I put together was a 386DX40 AMD-based system.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Mine was a

486/SX33 (Clone, not intel...)
8MB RAM
120MB HDD
256K Cirrus Logic graphics.

Eventually got;
SB16 (Real thing, not a clone!!)
2X multisession CD-ROM (Feel the burn!!)
Double memory

All for a mere £1500 plus upgrades!

 

[nageov3t]

1996:

100 MHz
8 MB RAM
4 GB hard drive
4X CD-ROM

on-board video... the computer only had one PCI slot, which was used up by a nic.

it was a present from my dad, but I believe he paid about $4,000 for it :shocked:

 

[jcwagers]

K6-2 300
128mb Ram
8mb Matrox Millennium G2
8.4gb Hard Drive
32x CD-ROM
Opti32 sound card

$1040

 

[thraxes]

486 sx25
4MB RAM
1MB RAM Trident ISA VGA
210 MB HDD

about 1500$

Shortly after getting it I added a Sony 2x CD-ROM and a SoundBlaster 16 for annother load of cash.... all because I wanted to play Rebel Assault

Edit: This was the first one that was actually mine, My dad had an Apple IIc since 1987 and got his 486 DX33 shortly before I bought mine. Next came an upgrade to DX66, then P75, P166, P2-400, P3-1000 and then what i have now.

 

[madogvt]

Apple ][ + $1600 in the eary '80's. Only knew one other person with a home PC then.

48K RAM, baby...