What was your first PC?

Stumps

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Mine was an IBM PS/2 Model 30....way back in 92...my father had it since 88 and when he bought a brand new 486sx I got the old IBM.
Its specs were as follows

Am386DX/DXL 40Mhz
8mb ram
512kb Trident TVGA 9000C ISA VGA
creative SB 2.0
60mb maxtor HDD
12inch IBM VGA monitor
MCA/ISA Bus architecture

it ran Windows 3.11 and DOS 6.22 and could run Doom v1.6 like a charm.

My first "Computer" was a Tandy TSR80, with tape drive and 64k ram...it was updated with a Z80 processor..that was way back in 86 when I was about 6, it plugged in to the TV and was pretty cool
 

Injury

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y2k... before going to college

Gigabyte Ga-7zx mobo
AMD 750Mhz T-Bird
128MB Generic Ram (later upgraded to 640MB)
27GB WD HD (later added 40GB Maxtor)
LG 8x CD-RW
Generic CD-Rom
Floppy
100MB ZIP drive
17in KDS CRT
Generic speaker system
Generic Keyboard
Generic scroll mouse.
Windows 98

~ $1100.

 

IGBT

Lifer
Jul 16, 2001
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..commadore(spelling) 64/128 then an Amiga 500 which I still have.:)
 

JDrake

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It's longggg goneee
My dad jumped on the idea of the internet and bought a computer right around then
it was a helluva a lot, too!!
 

vi edit

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Commodore 64...I remember programming on that beast. Songs and little symbols that bounced all over the screen. Hell, that might still be laying around my parents basement somewhere :)

After that it was a Packard Bell 486DX 66. Feel the power!
 

Koing

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Intel Pentium 133MHz
16MB RAM (w00t)
1GB HD (w00t)
SB onboard sound that gave me THE MOST sh!t ever in dos...
Pathetic onboard 2MB graphis card
4x CDROM

I had a Spectrum a Commodore 64 etc. VIC20 but I only played games on them :p Good old 30mins waiting for the dam tape to load a game and to have it corrupt :p :(

Koing
 

jlbenedict

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Compaq Presario (pizza box)

Pentium 90 Mhz
8mb edo ram
850mb hard disk drive
4x cdrom
onboard video 1mb
onboard sount of some sort...
running windows 3.11 for workgroups.. also came with a Windows 95 upgrade cd

 

FoBoT

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Apr 30, 2001
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for a "PC"

jan 1993

Intel 386DX-33
8 MB RAM
210 MB hard drive
1MB ISA video
14.4 Kbps modem
Sound Blaster
14" color monitor

over $5000

before that we had an Apple II , but that isn't a "PC"
 

TraumaRN

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The first PC that was mine....as is I owned was a Dell XPS 550, P3 550mhz with a TNT2 vid card and 512MB of ram and a 40gig hard drive. Came with a 21" Sony Trinitron CRT That was a REALLY nice birthday gift that year
 

sobriquet

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Packard Bell Legend 4-something I think.
75 MHz Pentium
8 MB RAM
540 MB HDD
512 KB integrated video
SB 16 compatible sound
14.4 kbps modem
2x CD-ROM
14" monitor
Windows 95
 

jimbob200521

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I don't know specifically, but it was an ancient IBM that I got at a garage sale for $100 (talked 'em down from $120 :p). All I remember about it was that it had 2 3 1/2" floppies, a PSU that had a flip switch on it, and a 5 1/4" hard drive. My next computer I remember a little better, it was a 386 (33mhz maybe?) with 4mb RAM and either a 110mb or 210mb hard drive. Ahh, those were the days :)
 

Fenixgoon

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celeron 366 @ 500
256mb pc2100 RAM
voodoo3 3500 AGP (runs diablo like a charm :D)
sblive
 

Linflas

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"PC"
486-33
4MB RAM
120MB HD
Diamond SpeedStar VGA card
2400 modem
14" CTX VGA monitor

First computer
Atari 520 ST

 

Steve

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The first that was "mine" was an IBM Aptiva 2170-245 E Series PC. 450MHz K6-2, 64MB of RAM, 8GB hard drive, Windows 98. Fall of '99
 

jadinolf

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January 1978.

Received 3 Radio Shack Model I computers.

4 K of memory, no floppy, no HDD. Cassette recorder was used to load what few programs were available.

How exciting.
 
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some kind of compudyne pos that ran windows 3.1 and had 3 hard drives with a combined storage of around 1GB. I used that from about 1993 or 1994 until my dad bought a Dell with Windows 98 (later upgraded to SE) and a Pentium 2 (250 or 350), 96MB RAM (upgraded later to 324), 13 gb hdd, and an ATI Rage Pro with 8mb of V-Ram.

Though, in my elementary school, there were Apple 2Es in the classroom until I was in 4th grade (1997/1998).
 

jlee

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Sep 12, 2001
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First that was /mine/? PII 450, 128mb RAM. First one I used? Probably a 286..
 

StevenYoo

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got a Tandy 1000 back in 1990 or something.

after that i got a 386 SX 25MHz with 4 MB of RAM and an 80MB hard drive.

those were good times.