What was your first PC or Computer

[montag451]

Sinclair Spectrum - 48K RAM - not the crappy 16K version.
WOW.
What a machine.

Precursor to the Commodore 64, big brother to the Sinclair ZX81 (1K RAM expandable to 16K) and even bigger bro to the ZX80.

Next machine was the whopper Commodore 64, with 1541 Floppy disk drive - I think each 5.25" disk could hold 640K - Ah - happy days.

 

[necro007]

First PC:

P3 533 MHZ
384 MB of Ram
Windows 98

 

[Engineer]

1983: Tandy Handheld BASIC computer
1984: Tandy Color Computer with 4k memory and tape recorder drive
1984: Tandy Color Computer with 16k memory
1985: Tandy Model 4 PC with 2 floppy drives
1986: Tandy Model 100 laptop with built in 300 baud modem and 8 line LCD display
1987: Tandy 1000SX with 256kb memory and 3.5" - 720k floppy drive - 7.16MHz 8086 processor. $1607 (Added 20MEG HD for $379 later that year)
1991: Packard Bell 486SX 33


LOTS SINCE THEN

 

[TwiceOver]

Somewhere around here I have the receipt:

AMD K6-2 450mhz
64mb Ram
16mb Gainward VooDoo Banshee
CDRom
Floppy
Win98 (first edition)

$1680 Tower only. Nothing else, not even a damn mouse pad.

That was my first purchased PC. I used my dads 286s and up, Apple IIe, and Apple IIgs, also.

 

[feelingshorter]

166 mhz packard bell that cost 2000 dollars!

 

[vegetation]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Commodore 128 baby!! Dual processors, yeah.

I still have my 128D, with its built-in floppy, detachable keyboard. Three processors all in one unit, 64k video ram. In 80 column mode I actually preferred it over the Amiga.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Commodore 64. (early 80's) It all started there for me.

 

[swtethan]

packard bell pentium 200mhz with MMX! 32 mb ram 4 gig hd, blazing speed for all of $2000

 

[Steve]

IBM Aptiva 2170-245:
AMD K6-2 450MHz
64MB PC-100
SiS 530 chipset w/8MB (dedicated RAM) onboard video
ESS Solo audio
8GB Seagate HDD
145W PSU
Acer V75M motherboard
56K PCI modem
CD-ROM drive

$999

 

[BriGy86]

some acer that we bought in 93, it had windows 3.1 on it and we upgraded the ram so we could upgrade the OS to 95

that hard drive i think was around 320 megs

 

[CFster]

C64, then a 128.

Before that, I used to play with a Trash-80 in school.

 

[MaxDSP]

Packard Bell Platinum 3000
233 MHz Pentium II w/ MMX Technology D)
32 MB RAM
4.3 GB HDD
24x CD-ROM
56K Modem (no x2 or Flex technology though)

 

[Rip the Jacker]

My very first computer that I myself bought is the one I currently have..

AXP 2500+ / A7N8X DELUXE / 9700 PRO / LIAN LI PC-6070B / SAMSUNG 17' LCD / 1 GIG BALLISTIX

The first computer I used was probably an Intel P3 533 MHz / 4 MB Video / 256 MB RAM

 

[anno]

my first computer was a 286-12mhz with a 40mb hard drive and a whoppin' 1mb of ram, I paid 1200 dollars for it, I think.

anno

 

[mrSHEiK124]

My first computer, right off the label on the front:
HP Pavilion 7360
200 MHz Pentium with MMX technology
32 MB EDO Memory/256K pipeline burst cache
3D Graphics (LOL!)
2 MB EDO Video Memory for High Resolution Graphics (LOL!) [I think it was an S3 ViRGE]
3.8 GB HDD
33.6kbps DSVD Fax Modem (videophone recieve software included)
some other crap
MPEG for full motion video
USB (yes it had USB)

Then moved to another HP, Athlon 900 MHz with nVIDIA Vanta LT, 40GB HDD, 128 MB SDRAM, 4x CD-RW and a DVD-ROM, this thing was the sh!t when I got it, one of the first kids on the block with a burner.
Last HP of the bunch, Athlon XP 1600+, S3 ProSavage, 512 MB SDRAM, 60GB HDD, 16x CDRW, DVD-ROM.

Then, my first that I actually built, and the first that was actually my computer
Athlon XP 2500+, later Mobile 2600+, 512 MB Kingwin HyperX PC3700, later 1 GB OCZ Plat, GeForce FX 5700, later 6800GT, Pioneer DVR-107, then 108, and of course, SOUNDSTORM!

And now, my precious:
Athlon 64 X2 4200+ @ 2.4 GHz / 2 GB G.skill PC3200 / 3 x Seagate 160GB 7200.9 / Pioneer DVR-110 / 7800GT / X-Fi Platinum

What's left of the XP rig is now actually an HTPC, I kept the case though, I <3 Kingwin.

Oh, they all had ASUS motherboards too, even the HPs