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Post the specs of the first PC you ever owned....

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ironique

Senior member
Like the thread title says, post 'em!

My first PC:
Brand = Daewoo (Yes, that's right, Daewoo! They actually built PCs! Maybe they still do!)
Processor = Intel 386SX 33Mhz
RAM = 4MB (good old SIMMs)
HDD = Seagate 130MB (LOL!)
Removable storage = 1x 3.5" Floppy, 1x 5.25" Floppy (the REAL floppy disks!)
Screen = Daewoo 14" VGA
Printer = Some old & noisy Brother dot matrix printer
Sound = PC Speaker (LOL!)
OS = Windows 3.0/MS-DOS 5.x
Mobo = Didn't know enough to bother
Gfx = CPU 😛

How did I ever manage!

Though this is the first PC I owned, the first PC I ever used was a Commodore64. Anyone remember "Ghouls and Goblins"?


 
Tandy 1000 SL/2.
processor = Intel 8086
RAM = 640k
HDD (equivalent) = 20mb hard card
screen = CGA, upgraded later to a TSENG video card (woohoo VGA. Porn was never the same).
sound = Tandy sound
OS = DOS

games = shareware on 5.25" floppy, Commander Keen, Dark Knights of Krynn, Secret of the Silver Blades, etc.

When I finally build me a 386, I threw that fvcker off of the top of my two story house...
Tas.
 
486DX25
4meg. RAM
280meg. HD
1 meg. VC
1xCD rom(upgrade)
8bit Sound Blaster
14" VGA
very expensive Canon Bubble Jet printer(5100 or something)
 
IBM
AMD Athlon 350 MHz
128 MB RAM (upgraded to 256 MB - whoo-hoo)
Built In ATI Rage Pro Graphics
CD ROM
Built iN Sound
8 GB HDD

bought in October 1998 - Given to Mom in 2001 - still chugging along w/ replaced cpu heatsink & chipset fans - everything else stock
 
The one I first bought myself:
Pentium 75
8 mb ram
540 mb hdd
Soundblaster 2.0
4x CD-rom
15" Targa CFT
Diamond Stealth 64 PCI 2mb
 
Apple IIE
Dual Floppies
64K mem upgrade
Color monitor
$2,000

Wolfenstien was AWSOME on this machine 🙂

Edit

Sorry, didn't realize it was just pc's. First pc was

486SX 33Mhz
4Mb Ram (later upgraded to 8 for Doom)
unknown graphics

Still had this system till it burnt in my parents house this year, couldn't bring myself to throw it out
 
First PC:

AMD K6/233MHz
32MB RAM
2.5Gb Maxtor HD
8x Samsung CD-ROM (spit)
Matrox Productiva G100 AGP
SoundBlaster 128 PCI
Windows 95 (98 after an extremely short period of frustration and hate)
... and the WORST case in the world (AT-format).

However, I owned various Amigas for years previous to this.

First up was an A500+ (with no upgrades....), and the latest was a tower converted A1200 with a 33MHz 68030EC card, 32MB RAM (for the Amiga, that was huuuuge), 2.5GB HD. Can you see where most of the parts for my PC came from? 😉
 
Originally posted by: thorny169
Apple IIE
Dual Floppies
64K mem upgrade
Color monitor
$2,000

Wolfenstien was AWSOME on this machine 🙂
Click to expand...

hehehehe. I remember I was so jealous when my friends mom got a real Pentium! We played Quake on that thing, and it was amazing...
Tas.
 
Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
Originally posted by: thorny169
Apple IIE
Dual Floppies
64K mem upgrade
Color monitor
$2,000

Wolfenstien was AWSOME on this machine 🙂
Click to expand...

hehehehe. I remember I was so jealous when my friends mom got a real Pentium! We played Quake on that thing, and it was amazing...
Tas.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I remember my friend getting a P100 machine, and seeing Quake for the first time. A serious eye-opener, that moment 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Phil
Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
Originally posted by: thorny169
Apple IIE
Dual Floppies
64K mem upgrade
Color monitor
$2,000

Wolfenstien was AWSOME on this machine 🙂
Click to expand...

hehehehe. I remember I was so jealous when my friends mom got a real Pentium! We played Quake on that thing, and it was amazing...
Tas.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I remember my friend getting a P100 machine, and seeing Quake for the first time. A serious eye-opener, that moment 🙂
Click to expand...

My first eye-opener was when I got my 3dfx card put into my P2-233 machine. WOW.... That was fvcking beautiful.
Tas.

 
My First PC I built myself. The only machine I ever Purchased was a crappy old Emachine that work was selling for $25 I picked it up for fun and to part everything out if I hated it.

Celeron 366 OCed to 550
64MB PC100
10GB WD
EPO 32X CDROM
Creative TNT2 16MB
Crap case with 300W PSU
Abit BM6
SB128 PCI
and a Intel 10/100 NIC I borrowed from school.
 
My first computer was a Commodore 64. Don't know if that's a PC and I wouldn't have a clue about it's specs.

My first main computer was a Compaq Presario.

AMD K6/2 533MHz
64mb SD Ram
8mb Onboard Graphics.
10Gb Hard Drive
Windows 98SE
 
Compaq Presario
Intel Pentium 100
8MB RAM (upgraded to 24MB)
Onboard SiS graphics (2d)
1GB HDD
Win 95
15" monitor etc etc
 
I had an Atari 800XL. Not sure of all the specs except that it had 64k memory. I think it was in line with the Commodore 64, which my neighbor had. I could do all kinds of programing on mine. The only thing he could do with his was type in code from magazines. If it wasn't for that pesky memory limit, I would have made monopoly.
Oh yea, the box said that it was the official computer of the '84 Olympics.
 
old: 8086
CPU: 2mhz power!!!!
ram: 16k I think
Hard drive: NONE
Monitor: One color black and Green

(I still have this in my back Room with other comps of the past)
 
Quill PC
25Mhz
4MB RAM
40MB HD later upgraded to 320MB
1.44 and 5.25 Floppies
Win 3.1 and DOS

We later upgraded to Win95 and 166Mhz!
 
My Dad bought me an XT (8086) clone when I was a kid. He used the PC for work (he programmed in Fortron) I used it for space invaders/robotron/etc...

floppy: 2x5 1/4 single sided floppies
hardrive: external harddrive (10 whopping megabytes)
monitor: monochrome (green/black)

I Used that PC for a good 12 years.

And then came the:

  • 286
    386-sx
    486dx-66
    PII-333
    XP-2000
    A64-3500
    X2-4200

My Dad used to bring home all shorts of computers in the late 70's/Early 80's. I remember being amazed at the 8inch floppy disks his Zenith machines used.
 
well my first one was MSX back in 84, followed by Amiga 500+ (with 512 memory cartridge), then came p75 8MG ram 1 MG vram (ati card) 1 G HHD in 95 upgraded that to 166 + 32MB Ram + another 2 G HHD and a 3dfx2 card in 97/98.

i currently own a box of cpus including 8086, 286, 386, 486, several p1s and p2s plus a whole heap of other things like video cards and memory modules
 
i had

apple 2c
144k memory
one internal floppy drive then an external one also
no modem.
dot matrix printer.
13 green and black screen.

2,500 dollars.
 
First Computer I ever owned:
Timex Sinclair 1000
2k RAM, with a 16K plugin
z-80 processor
membrane keyboard
Panasonic tape recorder for data storage.
 
First I owned myself was a P90, 16 MB RAM with an 850 MB hard drive.

First I used was a Macintosh(the one that was just called Macintosh that is 😉 ), along with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
 
Daewoo mobo
Intel 8088 proc running in turbo mode at 10mhz
512k ram
5 1/4 floppy disk drive
EGA card
Dos 3.x
Sound?? We didnt have sound!
Some noname case
Whopping 20 meg STFM HD Interleave 1:1 ratio
Magavox 12" EGA monitor

Total cost: 2500
 
My first computer, I bought it in '97... Before that, I never had one!

Motherboard: Asus P2-99
CPU: PIII 450 MHz (the highest back then was the 500, and it cost like $600 more!)
Ram: 64 MB generic PC100
Video: TNT2 m64 16 MB
Sound: SB PCI128
Hard Drive: 8.0 GB Samsung
Modem: Motorola 56K
Network: None!!!
OS: Win 98 (not SE!)
Power Supply: Deer (died 2 years later)
Case: dunno, common beige ATX case (still using it!)
Monitor: Samtron 15" (died within 1 year, replaced with "MDG" 15")

Cost: ~$1800 Canadian
 
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