Post the specs from your first computer and the price

[SKORPI0]

C64

I still have it in storage, plus >600 5 1/4" floppies. Spent about $500 mid 80's, not counting the 1701 monitor, 1541 drive and 1526 dot matrix printer.

 

[wiredspider]

Compaq 5050 sitting beside me right now (nope not using it as my main box, just was trying to play with some linux yesterday, but unsupported NIC...)
333 MHZ Celeron
96 MB RAM (one 64 stick and one 32 stick, couldn't just give me one 128 stick...)
Some form of intergrated AGP graphics
7.8 gig Hard Drive
and a 15inch compaq monitor
Cost was around 2k from bestbuy at the time...

 

[OffTopic1]

DX66, 8megs ram, 512 megs hdd, 2 megs vid, SB16, 1X CDrom, 5.25 & 3.5 floppy drive, and 17" NEC multisync colour monitor. Grand total was about $4800 USD ($6500 CAD).

 

[brunswickite]

486dx
4mb ram
200mb harddrive
cd rom drive

3000 dollars

also, had a pc xt in teh house but that was my bros..

 

[Atomicus]

Pentium 1 150mhz
16mb RAM
some other garbage
printer
keyboard
mouse

$3000 This was back in the early 1990s

 

[Ionizer86]

Dell P233MMX
32MB PC66 SDR
4MB S3 or something PCI video
Integrated sound
WD 3.2GB Hard Drive
4x CD-Rom
Zip 100
Win95B
About $2000

We did have an older 486, but I couldn't remember any specs at all.

 

[Evadman]

an Osborne. 4.0 MHZ. The first one I really did anything with was a Heathkit, then the C64, 128, and finaly a 8088. Wee!

I still have moth the Osborne's and the c64/128.
The osborne was like $1200 IIRC

 

[Linflas]

First I purchased on my own was an Atari 520 ST.
Motorola 68000 processor running at 8MHz
512Kb RAM
640X400 Mono
640X200 4 color
320X200 16 color
Cost $500.00 with standard Monochrome monitor.

 

[episodic]

TRS 80 Model III

Bought used for 500$ in 1982

It was a Zilog Z-80 Processor running at an awesome 2.03 MHz
I had dual 178k capacity floppies (5.25)
I later added a 300 baud coupler modem to the serial port to hook up to a local bbs
The BASIC was in ROM and the Tandy RadioShack DOS was disk based.
Mine had 32k of RAM
12 inch B and white monitor
I had a daisywheel printer (forget the brand)

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: toy4x4
TRS-80 Model 1. No idea the specs cause it was soooo long ago.

One of the only computers released with NO EMI shielding. . .

haha

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
8086 processor

2 5.25 floppies. 128 kb of ram.

monitor? green screen.

price, $1200.00

That's pretty much what I had, except I had a color screen. Bought it from JCPenney and only had it a couple of days before I returned it to buy a computer with a 20mb harddrive.

 

[Horus]

My first computer?

486DX
8meg RAM
Some crappy vidcard we had to upgrade to play MYST for god's sake
1x CD-Rom (That puppy put us back 700 dollars)
5 1/4 and 2 1/2 floppies
crappy magnatronic monitor
crappy mouse
crappy keyboard
crappy, crappy, crappy.

For the tune of 2600 bucks in 1990.

 

[Cobalt]

HP Pavilion 8665c with M70 monitor - $2,000.00
Pentium 3 600mhz coppermine
Intel Integrated Graphics
128MB SDRAM
30gig HDD
Floppy
CD-Writer Plus CDRW drive
HP CD-ROM drive
Windows 98 SE

Upgrades since being bought stock - +$170.00
PNY GeForce FX 5200 128MB PCI
PNY 128MB SDRAM
EDIT: Windows XP Pro

Still using this computer after six years, because I can't afford a new one

 

[Crucial]

Dell Pentium Pro 200. 128mb ram 4mb Number 9 Imagine 128 graphics card, 4gb HD, cdrom, floppy.
$3150. This was the first PC I bought. My first computer usage was the good ole Commodore 64.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: CPA

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
8086 processor

2 5.25 floppies. 128 kb of ram.

monitor? green screen.

price, $1200.00

That's pretty much what I had, except I had a color screen. Bought it from JCPenney and only had it a couple of days before I returned it to buy a computer with a 20mb harddrive.

color screens and HD weren't available when i bought mine.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: episodic

Originally posted by: toy4x4
TRS-80 Model 1. No idea the specs cause it was soooo long ago.

One of the only computers released with NO EMI shielding. . .

haha

Yep, you could even buy a music program that made "music" by running the right opcodes to generate RF noise that you could pick up with an AM radio

TRS-80 model 1 was my first computer too, got it in 1978. 16 K RAM, 12 K ROM BASIC, cassette tape data storage, and later I got an old RO33 TeleTYpe machine for a printer.

 

[rh71]

I can't remember my actual first which was a 386 in the late 80s... but in 1995 or so:

IBM Aptiva (stealth black)

P133MHz
? HDD
16MB EDO
4x CDRom
15" monitor w/ speakers built-in
Win95

$2700 from Nobody Beats The Wiz.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: rh71
IBM Aptiva (stealth black)

P133MHz
? HDD
16MB EDO
4x CDRom
15" monitor w/ speakers built-in
Win95

$2700 from Nobody Beats The Wiz.

Hello, I'm Aptiva.

 

[Gurck]

It wasn't exactly mine, but my mother got a pc-xt from IBM, where she worked at the time. I remember thinking it was kind of lame compared to the Atari Monochrome monitor, no hdd, 2 5.25" floppies, can't even guess at mhz (khz?) and ram.

The first computer that I could call my own was a 286 with a 20mb hard drive, iirc 640kb ram (?) running at I think 12 mhz. I was insanely jealous of my friend's 386 w/ 60mb drive.

 

[tRaptor]

Mine, iremember it well. Its still sitting on a shelf around here somewhere

Macintosh Quarda 605
25 Mhz 68LC040 (NO FPU)
4mb RAM
160 MB Hard Drive
1.44 MB Floppy Drive
15 inch Magnavox Monitor

This sucker was great! Played Myst, Sim Tower, Sim City.
Later RAM was uped to the max of 36 mb, 28.8 modem (it hurts me to think of those days). Internet was slow, but useable, HD was uped to 500 MB, and also an external SCSI 2X CD-Rom was added.

If i remember correctly i used this thing till the end of my freshmen year in HS, (about 6 years ago) when it was replaced with a P3 that was 525mhz faster. It really is amazing the knowledge, and stuff that you pickup in that amound of time. I'm sorrounded by computers now. I remember thinking back then that I would keep it forever, and show my kids the SLOW CRAP we dealt with back in the day....

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: rh71
IBM Aptiva (stealth black)

P133MHz
? HDD
16MB EDO
4x CDRom
15" monitor w/ speakers built-in
Win95

$2700 from Nobody Beats The Wiz.

Hello, I'm Aptiva.

no idea what you're talking about... do you mean it actually is supposed to say that ? Not ours.

 

[cronos]

'computer'?
Sinclair ZX-81 (1982)

'ibm pc compatible'
IBM PC-XT compatible (8086), 4.7 MHz, built by a local computer store (not in the US), circa 1985

can't say the prices on these things, too long ago and too many conversions are needed.

 

[juancferrer]

MY 1st computer..got it 5 days ago.
Thinkpad T42 2373-3VU
Pentium M 735 1.7Ghz
1GB RAM
DVD-RW
14.1 SXGA+ 1400x1050
4 year accidental damage protection
$2600!!!

Family's computer..A.K.A. my dad's until the P133, that's when i became the primary user.
1st computer ever used..to old to remember. It had dual 5 inch floppys a green monitor ,and a dot matrix printer that if you licked it, it would leave a very bitter taste in your mouth. (i was like 3 OK!!!)
2nd comper was a 486 with a 4x CD-ROM and a 800MB HDD...not too sure about the HDD... I used to play wolfenstien, doom, and magic school bus!!
3rd Pentium 133Mhz 24x CD-ROM, 32MB RAM and a 2GB HDD $1800
4th Shuttle SFF-PC. Athlon-XP 2800+ NForce 2 with integrated GF4MX 440, 512MB RAM, DVD/CDRW combo. $800...yeah, it took that long to upgrade from the P133Mhz!!

 

[vshah]

Pentium 1, 90mhz
16mb Ram
1GB hard drive
Number 9 ticket to ride video w/ 2MB onboard
2x scsi CD drive
soundblaster 16 ISA


bought in 1993 i think, for the bargain price of $4400 from dell

-Vivan

 

[kyparrish]

P200 (MMX baby!)
32mb Ram
3gig HD
16X CD-ROM
17" CRT (was $600 open box buy)
~$2800 :Q