Specs & Price of your first Pentium PC

[Spankthru]

My POS: PACKARD BELL Pentium 100mhz, 8mb Ram, 1GIG HD, 2XCDROM, 14400 Modem, 15" Crap Monitor



***$1100 Dollars from Incredible Universe***

 

[DnetMHZ]

AST - P133 - 32megs RAM - 1.2 gig HD - 1 meg video - 14.4 modem - 15" monitor

somewhere in the area of $2500-3000 :Q

 

[Aves]

Custom Built

AMD 5x86 133MHz (PR75)
1GB Wester Digital HD
16 Mb RAM
4x Mitsumi CD-ROM
USR External 28.8Kbps Modem
Trident Chipset Video Card
Soundblaster Pro
15" Magitronic Monitor



In cash I paid $0, I worked off the cost doing upgrades, etc.

 

[eviltommy]

P166MMX - 16 megs of ram(i totally pheared it back then too), 33.6usr modem, i had a 2gig, 8x cdrom, old 14" viewsonic 4e

i dont remember the cost because lightning blasted my house (summer of 1996) and insurance payed for the replacement of my old 486DX4100.. plus my dad's friend who owned a shop built us the system on a discount.

man you should of seen me the day i got quake.. the day my grades started declining

 

[mpitts]

Pentium 60Mhz
540MB Hard Drive (Quantum)
420MB Hard Drive (Seagate)
16MB RAM
SoundBlaster Pro
4x Mitsumi
14.4 USRobotics Sportser
15" NEC monitor

 

[Yzzim]

Packard Bell
Pentium 100MHz
8MB RAM
1 gig hdd
8x cd-rom
sound card/14.4 modem built in
15" monitor (still have 'rents using it )
built-in video

Was a b#tch to upgrade. Spent literally 2 hours on the phone with Packard Bell trying to get the video card upgraded. (going from built-in video to a new Diamond Viper V330 (Nvidia's first video card, the Riva 128) They couldn't help me over the phone, they said it was impossible. Later that night I worked on it and finally got it to work. I was so proud of myself and thought I was pretty good at this computer stuff. Gave me the confidence to do some more upgrades and lead me to where I am now Kinda weird how things work out....

Edit: Paid $1200 for the Packard Bell. Bought it at Wal-Mart I still remember buying it. Was my first computer ever.

 

[Hubris]

If memory serves:

P166
32MB RAM
1.6GB HD
Some Trident video card; soon upgraded to the Diamond S220 (I believe)
ESS sound card
33.6 winmoded *shudder*
15" monitor

Cost me $1500. My grandparents lent it to me, and I paid them off in a couple months. That was the beginning of it all. I've built every computer I've had since then (three distinctly different ones since 1997).

 

[johneetrash]

pentium 60
640mb
8mb ram
no idea on the video card... im almost positive it was a virge card (or wutever the cool one was back then)
double speed cd-rom!

all for a mere $1900 acer power!

[edit]
forgot to add that it had a 14.4 modem... that i used up until the dawn of 56k! i was sooo behind.. you know how long it took to download mp3s?? and my computer had troubles playing them too
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[Tonix]

A Gateway P5-120XL for a mere $3800 in 1995. At the time it was a bargain for the $2500 I spent for my
very first PC (A Kaypro PC XT clone back in the 80's)..

Full tower case with 300W PS
Pentium 120MHz
16MB EDO RAM
1.0G Western Digital Caviar Drive
ATI-GX 2MB VRAM PCI video card
Ensoniq Soundscape soundcard
Altec Lansing Subwoofer&Speakers,
Sanyo 4X - 3 Disc changer CD-ROM
Gateway Vivitron 17" (Trinitron) monitor (.25 dp)
BTC 28.8 modem.

I still have it...you think after spend that much moola, I'm never getting rid of it
Of course, it's been through a few upgrades...basically gutted the box and
replaced it with cast off parts from other machines I have built and upgraded. It now has:

A Soyo ZX Baby AT motherboard
A 300A Celery O/C'd to 450 Mhz.
256MB PC-100 RAM
6.4G Maxtor
40X Memorex CD-ROM
2x2x4 Memorex CDRW
Diamond Stealth G460 (i740) AGP Card
A Generic No-name ISA soundcard
Diamond 56K winmodem
Linksys 10/100 ether card.

 

[VirusDub]

Packard Bell
Pentium 75 MHz
8 MB RAM
540 MB Hard drive
2x CD-ROM drive
512k Cirrus Logic video
14.4Kbps modem
1.44" Floppy
14" monitor

$1,499 at Circuit City

 

[Viper GTS]

I got an IBM Aptiva 2168-M55 for my 14th or 15th birthday (can't remember which):

Machine Type/Model Number 2168-M55
Case style Mini-Tower
Processor Speed Intel Pentium 100MHz
System board chipset Opti Viper
Slots (ISA/PCI/Shared) 6/2/2
Bays (Total/Open) 6/3
Ports (Serial/Parallel/USB) 2/1/0
Power Supply 145W Industry Standard
Memory (type) 72-pin, gold contact, non-parity SIMM
Standard/Maximum 16MB/128MB
Total Sockets/Open Sockets 4/2
L2 Cache (Standard/Maximum) 0KB/512KB
Hard file 1.6GB
Diskette Drive 3.5"
Video Chipset Trident 9680XGi
3D Acceleration No
Video Memory (Internal/Maximum) 1MB/2MB
Open Sockets 2
Maximum Resolution (colors) 1280x1024 (16)
Maximum Colors 16M
Monitor Included Not included
Keyboard Rubber dome
Mouse 2-button PS/2 style
Communications Mwave 28.8Kbps
Video Conference Enabled No
CD-ROM 4X
Audio Controller Mwave
Wavetable Yes
Speakers Yes (30 watt)
Microphone Telex
MPEG MPEG1 SW
Voice Recognition VTC Navigation
Joystick No
Home Automation No
TV/Remote Control No
Operating System Windows 95
Availability 9/15/95

My sister still runs that system, with some modifications of course. She has a 32X CD-ROM, a 6.4 GB HD, a P233 overdrive CPU, 128 MB RAM, & an OEM install of 95 - no IBM crap. I upgraded the video memory to 2 MB, & installed a 128k cache module in it. Thanks to software updates the modem is now a 33.6 instead of a 28.8. It works very well for her, it's been running flawlessly for several years now.

Viper GTS

 

[Vadatajs]

Gateway 2000 P5-60
pentium 60 (flawed architecture)
8 megs edo ram
730 meg hard drive
2x cdrom
S3 video card (useless)\
14.4 modem
sound blaster 16
Windows 3.11
15" vivitron monitor (1280x1024 max resolution)

I think the price was somewhere around $3000.

 

[Cerebus451]

Dell Dimension 200M

P200 MMX
32MB RAM
2.1GB hard drive
12X CD drive
Matrox Millenium 4MB video
33.6 modem

$2400 without monitor (I already had a nice 17" monitor to plug into it)

I had been a Mac weenie coming out of college. This was my first PC after converting over to the dark side of the force.

 

[Spamela]

100mhz pentium, 16mb ram, 2gb scsi hd, 2x scsi cd-rom, fd, 17" monitor, hp tape backup, hp printer, ms natural keyboard, ms mouse, ati 2mb video adapter, adaptec scsi adapter, sound blaster card, cheapo speakers.

about $4300 (competitive, for the time)

i had pc/xt (8086), pc/at (80286), 386, and 486 pc's before that one.

 

[XZeroII]

Does it have to be a Pentium? My first PC was a 386, 16MHz. It had 2mb of RAM and a 40meg hdd. Next was a 486, 66MHz w/8mb of RAM. Then I did spuratic upgrades going from a 75MHz to like 233 to 500 to 900 to 1.2GHz to 1.3 GHZ.

 

[ScottyB]

Hewitt Packard
120 mHz
4x cdrom
16 Mb Ram
1.2 Gb hard drive


We had an IBM laptop like 3 or 4 years before that but I don't know the specs.

 

[johneetrash]

hell ya the pentium 60 was flawed! socket 4?? i couldnt get an overdrive pc with that!

 

[Boogak]

Compaq Presario 8702

Classic Pentium 166mhz
24MB EDO RAM
2.5gb HD
8x CDROM
2mb s3 ViRGE video card
4mb PowerVR Arcade 3D graphics super accelerator (yes, I had one of the world's first 3d accelerator cards! this thing pre-dates Voodoo1! never did find a game that supported it though...)
33.6/14.4 Winmodem
17" Compaq monitor

Last non-homebuilt system I ever had. Thing was a piece of crap, it didn't have a basic OEM copy of Win95, so I had to use a QuickRestore cd to reinstall the OS which included a TON of crappy software I had to manually uninstall. They took FOREVER releasing DirectX 3 compatible drivers for the soundcard so for the longest time I couldn't play the latest games. But still, it was the system that got me hooked on computers for good. Had a 386sx, Commodore64, etc. before the Compaq but I just considered them glorified video game machines. Never felt the urge to upgrade and tweak and optimize until the Compaq.

 

[911paramedic]

Pentium? What pentium?

386/25MHZ
8 MB RAM
80 MB HDD
3 1/2" floppy
and
5 1/4" floppy
15" seiko .25dp monitor

$3,500 Ka-ching!

My dad said "you will never need another computer in your life if you get one that big" LOL

 

[Kenazo]

Cyrix 6x86 100, 16 megs ram, S3 Virge, 1.08 gig hd, 33.6 modem, SB16, 12x? cd.
it was an upgrade though for our 486sx-25 and I used the old case and Sb16.

I'm still using that computer to keep me on the internet, and as an MP3 jukebox. The sad thing is my everyday use computer is only a P166mmx laptop

 

[pcmodem]

Spec's & Price of my first Pentium class PC:

T'was a hand-built hunk o' junk purchased from used parts at a monthly community college weekend swap-meet

AMD K5 @ 75ish Mhz
2 GB HDD
16 MB RAM
8x (?) CDROM
14.4 Modem
14" Monitor
2 MB Cirrus Logic video card
Soundblaster sound card
El Cheapo Speakers that made sound nearly incomprehensible

Around $1000, including software.
-PCM

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Commodore 64 TI 99 IBM 8088 in that order if I remember right, maybe I had the TI first

 

[teckmaster]

my first pentium machine was a Gateway Destination computer.

P200MMX
32MB Ram
8.4GB hard drive
24X cd-rom
ESS Solo 1 sound
4mb Video card with a tv-tuner
wireless keyboard and mouse
56k modem
Boston Acoustics 3 piece speaker set (still around today, I have it at work)
31" monitor (thats not a typo)
Epson Stylus 600 printer

I paid around $3500 for the whole thing

 

[Nitemare]

First Pc was a 386

First pentium was a packard hell 120 corner model
AT case
crappy power supply
16 mb memory
1.2 gig Seagate hd

on a isa card(1 MB video, sound, and 33.6k generic modem)

came with a 14" monitor with mounted speakers.

Think I paid about 1.2k for it at beast buy

 

[mithrandir2001]

Dell Dimension XPS166c

Original Pentium 166/66
16MB RAM (72pin EDO SIMMS)
1GB Quantum Fireball HDD
6X CD-ROM (Teac)
2MB VRAM video card (#9 Motion 771)
Creative AWE32 SoundBlaster
Altec Lansing ACS-31 3-piece speakers
Samsung 6Ne 17" .28 monitor
Microsoft Mouse/Dell QuietKey
Windows 95/Office 95

$3450 shipped, February 1996