What was your first PC or Computer

[ZoomStop]

Originally posted by: TBone48
Systemax PII350
64 mb RAM
128mb ATI video

ahh, the good 'ol days when you could actually get your rebates from Tiger Direct

 

[HomeAppraiser]

1984 Commodore 64 $149 plus the Hard Drive for it $199! Of course the MAC was $2,495 at the time and add an extra $1,500 for its hard drive! Long live Di-Sector by Starpoint Software.

 

[Malak]

Packard Bell Pentium 100mhz, 16mb RAM, 1GB HD(OMG a jiggabyte!).

Starcraft didn't run so hot on it. Required 133mhz IIRC.

 

[JujuFish]

*My* first PC was a 486. Finally upgraded in 2000.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Inappropriate4AT
First family machine was a 386 or 486, used to play 5.25" diskette games on it. Next was a 233mhz Sony VAIO with integrated VIVO and video editing capabilities lol. My first personal PC was a 900mhz Duron with 256mb ram, a gift from a very generous friend. And after that I've been through way too much hardware to name.

Yea so I assume you Had the PCV 220 model I've got that exact same model, it was based off of the AIW PRO, had video inputs in the front and TV tuner although it was impossible to record TV due to the fact it had horrible compression (no mpeg).

 

[imported_goku]

First family system was an IBM XT 8088 4.77mhz, 15MB HDD which was huge! 640K ram IIRC 2 5.25" FDD, modem, monochrome display (have no clue if the video card can output color), Epson Laser Jet printer.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: jeffeh
My first computer was a P133 16mb Ram back in 96... Doesn't really compare to others here but I'm not that old either... Then had a 333mhz p2 and not a 2.8 p4... good times lol

A cheapo machine I see I know this because in may/june of 1996 our family got our first pentium based system IIRC, P200 32MB ram 3.2GB HDD, integrated 2MB video with a 17" display. The only thing I have left of the machine is the display with integrated speakers I had to trash the system because I was just not able to get it working again (was fiddling with it, stopped for awhile and tried again) and it just stopped working. I'm not sure if attempting at putting a K6 II in there was what killed it or not since I tried a K6 II in one of our sony vaios and it simply didn't work, didn't break it or anything.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: TheAdvocate
Packard Bell Pentium 60MHz - yes the original Pentium chip that was slower and crappier than the last 486 chips. It had been upgraded to 16 megs (ohhh!!!) of EDO RAM, had a 640MB hard drive, a 9600 baud modem, and a 2x CDROM drive (ub3r).

It was a pile of crap, and the PSU died 3 months after I bought it. The onboard video sucked something awful too, randomly displaying the photo-negative color instead of the right one. Stuck a 2MB Trident 2D PCI card in there though, and it played the hell out of some Warcraft II. Wore the machine and the game disk out, but worth every penny of the $500 I paid.

Woa...

The original pentiums were crappier than the 486s? What about a 66MHZ 486DX? If this is true, then it seems like intel has had this "cycle" with processors for quite a while now!

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Xylitol
Sony Vaio
2 GB HARDDRIVE
678 mhz Pentium 1 Processor
16 mb RAM

More than 2000 bucks

There is no such thing as a pentium 678, or a PIII 678, there is 666 or 700mhz PIIIs...

 

[FeuerFrei]

Got my first computer back on New Year's Day 1996.
Paid $2048.

I was in college at the time majoring in computer science.

Specs:[*]Pentium 100Mhz
[*]16MB RAM[*]Diamond Stealth 2MB video card[*]SoundBlaster 16 or 32 (not sure)[*]1.2GB Quantum Fireball hard drive[*]1.44MB Floppy[*]15" MAG monitor[*]4x CDROM[*]Windows 95[*]14.4K modem

It was prebuilt.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The computer cost me about $300 in 2000, IIRC. It may have been 2001, however.

Pentium III 750Mhz
3dfx Voodoo 3 2000
Western Digital 4GB 5400RPM
Kingston 128MB PC100
Abit Motherboard (can't remember exactly)
Sound Blaster Audio (can't remember exactly)
Creative 52X
KME 200 Watt

 

[jadinolf]

I owned a Radio Shack dealership and received delivery of 3 Radio Shack Model 1 computers in January of 1978. A whopping 4 kb of memory.

 

[HomeAppraiser]

It is amazing how fast these computers become outdated. When I worked for local government back in 1993 they only had terminals, no PCs. One day I was talking with the boss and noticed an IBM ThinkPad notebook in the corner of her office. She was at retirement age and had no use for new gadgets so I could use it, but it had to stay in her office. Talk about working with the teacher watching over you. It had Lotus123 on it so I was creating useful spreadsheets in no time. Everyone would then come in to use it so the bosses office got pretty crowed, but our department did not have the budget for any PCs. In the mean time the three Emergency Management people in our building had a federal grant for setting up a command center in the basement. Flush with your tax money they ordered 20 top of the line 486 PCs from Gateway. They set up two and left the rest stacked along the halls of the basement. Could we just borrow a few and give them back in the event of an emergency. NO! Fvck it would have taken them all day to unpack and set up all those PCs. I felt like crying every time I passed those cow boxes. Two years later I came into work and the cow boxes were all gone. Never did find out to where, but Emergency Management got six more new computers the next week. Our office finally got some P3?s at a rate of two per year.

 

[The Batt?sai]

i had a compaq presario 667 megahertz pentium 3, with 64 megs of sdram. and lovely windows 98. wheni wanted to get a video card for it, imagine my surprise that it didnt' have an agp slot, once i learned what that was. ugh lol. stupid compaq . still going strong cause i sold it to my lil brother in 2004 when i finally built my first pc . i did add an aiw radeon (original, but pci) and a 5.1 soundblaster live card to the presario. had a 80 gig wd drive in it too, but the computer kept corrupting the drive so it didnt' work that well. have no problems now with my athlon xp 2600+ mobile i've got running at 2.4 gigahertz with 2 gigs of pc3200 patriot and an aiw x800xt

btw i paid 1600 for that pos compaq LOL :-D

 

[ABErickson]

My first one was an Epson (yep, they used to make PC's also). Had an 8088 processor. I think it was clocked at around 8 mhz (I'm serious). Cost like $1200 bucks and had either a 20mb or 40mb hard drive.

 

[NL5]

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

 

[cougar78]

commodore 64

 

[Brutuskend]

Zenith 8088

It was a gift.

 

[Sphexi]

Well, our family had a IBM PC, with the 10 and 20MB harddrives, two 5 1/4" floppy drives, and the mono monitor. Then we jumped to a few other units, but the first one I built myself was Cyrix 686 233mhz based, 64MB of memory, 5GB Maxtor drive (I think), with a 12x CDROM drive, STB Velocity 128 (TNT), Windows 95. Eventually moved to an AMD K62 400, then a Duron 800, then an Athlon 1800+, then my P4C 2.8. I've had just as many video cards, a few sound cards, dozens of harddrives, all that jazz.

 

[RossMAN]

Commodore Vic 20 it was a gift

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
how many times must we do this :|

 

[ElFenix]

macintosh SE

it was $3700 when it came out in 1987

 

[intogamer]

My dad got me a IBM K2 Duron 266mb @ compusa... I think it was somewhere around 1200-1600

 

[jspeicher]

I bought an ACER 75mhz from best buy back in the day. Played Myst on it.

 

[LandRover]

Compaq Portable II 286 8MHz, 640K, 20MB HDD, 5.25" floppy, built-in CGA CRT. All in an ultra-portable 45 pound suitcase. Ideal for air travel... haha.
I still have it and it works great!