What was your first Computer and how much did it cost?

[Patt]

Vic 20 ... parents purchased it for approximately $200 I think.

First purchase by yours truly ... P75, 19.9 modem, 1.2 GB HD, 16 MB ram, 17' monitor, 16 MB Nvidia graphics card. Ran WarCraft II like a champ

 

[meltdown75]

C=64

Mommy bought it for me.

got the 1200 baud modem for Christmas and the neffing began.

 

[Winchester]

First personally purchased computer:

Toshiba 205CDS
Pentium 100mhz
8MB Ram, later 40MB
810MB HD
CD-ROM/Floppy
11.3" screen

Paid $600ish for it at Sam's. It was a display, messed up, wouldnt boot etc so I bought it and took it in to the repair place (still under warranty) and got it fixed.

 

[bmacd]

Packard Bell. It was right around $1500 on clearance from CompUSA. If i only knew what a horrible investment that was then...

Pentium 1, ~150mhz?

-=bmacd=-

 

[Looney]

Mine was an Amstrad with a 286 CPU, don't remember the ram, no HDD, 2 5 1/4 floppies... and a CGA monitor. All for about $2k

 

[So]

NEC 286 something, in 1987 or so. It was my Dad's and it cost around 2k, but it paid for itself with engineering consulting work. Had a 20Mb HD! :Q

 

[AU Tiger]

Commodore 64 (or whichever one was out at the time). It was returned and replaced with an IBM PCjr. Lots of Ultima III and other games played on that jr.

 

[darkxshade]

IBM Aptiva(150mhz) for $3k

 

[CrackRabbit]

My first computer was free, my parents gave it to me after they bought a newer one.
Packard Bell 486 SX 33 4mb of ram and a 110MB hdd.
I upgraded it to a DX4-100, 20MB of ram, 6x CD drive, Soundblaster 16 IDE and 320mb Hdd.

 

[D1gger]

1983 IBM PC 8088 with 2 x 180 kb floppy Drives 4.77 mHz

If I remember correctly, I paid just under $4,000 for it.

 

[eplebnista]

Dell XPS R400
400mhz Intel PII CPU
64mb PC100 Sdram Memory
440BX Chipset Mainboard
4.8X Toshiba DVD Drive
Floppy Drive
Zip Drive
ATI Xpert@Work 8mb AGP Video Card
13GB U66 Maxtor HDD
USRobotics ISA Modem
200W Power Supply
Dell D1226H 19" CRT monitor(used until very recently)
Altec Lansing 2.1 Speaker/Subwoofer set
Dell KB/Microsoft Intellimouse set

~$2400-$2450 circa oct '98

 

[j00fek]

adam computer with 64KB ram
was like 650 in 80's when dad got it for us kids, played all the colecovision games on it and typed out papers!

 

[Eli]

An XT.

4.77MHZ FTW!

It was a handmedown.

The first computer I ever built was a 486SX/25 with *8*MB ram, TWO 40mb hdd's. and a 14" VGA monochrome(shades of gray). That one ran me a few hundred in 1994 or so.

 

[OdiN]

Mine was an Apple ][ Plus

I don't know how much it cost...my dad bought it from somewhere. I don't ever remember not having it so it's probably older than me.

From there we upgraded to:

AST 386/DX33 (Dad's Comp)

My own first computer:

Packard Bell 486/DX266 (dad bought it...grrr stupid packard bell....though it wasn't that bad of a machine I guess...no problems)

Upgraded (everything from here on out I made myself) to a Cyrix PR233 with mobo and used the HD/CD/etc. from the PB system.

Upgraded that to an AMD K6-2 500

Upgraded to a Celeron 300A@466(I think) to try outthe overclocking thing. Made my own "celery sandwich"

Upgraded to a P3 500, added a peltier cooler and got it to a whopping...566Mhz or so. Yay.

Upgraded that to a P3 700 Socket370 Coppermine - later added a second 700 and a dual-CPU motherboard.

Upgraded that to dual AMD 1800+ MP's

"Upgraded" from that to a P4 2.4GHz@3.4GHz. Was sorry I got rid of the dual CPU even though there was "Hyperthreading" BAH!

Upgraded from the P4 to an Athlon64 3000+ and OC'd that to I forget what.

Dropped in an X2 4400+ as soon as I could get my hands on it and that's what I am running now.

 

[aircooled]

Commodore 64 (it was brand new at the time). Got it for christmas so I didn't pay for it (it was probably 2 or 3 hundred dollars). Then I got a 300 baud modem, damn that was cool. BBS's were king back then.

 

[Mucho]

I bought a Vic 20 in 1983 for $100 from a friend.

 

[Doboji]

Emerson 286/12 1024kb RAM 40MB harddrive Dos 4.03, PFS Quickmenu.

free

Got it for my bar mitzvah in.... when the hell was that... 1991