What was your first PC?

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Lifted
First PC was a Gateway 2000 386SX-16, 1MB RAM, 40MB HDD, 13" or 14" VGA monitor. No sound card, no modem, no nothin. Ran F-15 Strike Eagle, Falcon 3.0 and A10 Warthog just great though. A little slow with Kings Quest 5. Doom was bad, needed an upgrade to 2MB just to run it, and when it ran it was quite the slide show.

ummm needed 2mb to run DOOM??? minimum requirement for DOOM was 4mb, I know this because I had to create a special bootdisk thet would only load my SB drivers and no memory management to run DOOM, anything less than 4mb simply didn't run.
it was the sole reason I upgrade my 386 to 8mb...just so didn't need the diskette

 

[ucdbiendog]

P3 700 mhz'
256MB ram
diamond stealth S540
dont recall the mobo, it was bought as a package with the cpu at fry's =

this was in 2000 before college

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I started late when it came to owning a computer.

IIRC...

Pentium III 750Mhz
Generic 128MB PC100
3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000
KME ~300 Watt (this is the thing that destroyed the whole computer)
Western Digital 4GB

 

[Tea Bag]

P2-350 and I bought a Voodoo Banshee from my friend for an 'upgrade'.
That was the Tribes machine!

 

[secretanchitman]

first one that is "mine" is the one in my sig...

 

[Saint Nick]

First PC that was actually mine was a 286 with a monochrome monitor. I can't remember the specs of that thing...

 

[ForumMaster]

our first computer was not actually a PC but rather a Mac (since in 1994, macs had better graphics and that was my dad'd job).
it had:
66Mhz PowerPC cpu ( i have no idea which)
8mb ram (which my dad upgraded to 40MB costing something like $1000!)
80MB HDD (which again my dad upgraded too 160 at a cost of something like $500!)
i don't remeber the screen, but i remember that it had Mac OS 8.6

*my* first computer was an old one that had the following specs:
100Mhtz Intel CPU
300MB hdd
64MB ram
14in. screen
no sound ofcourse
Windows 95

 

[aircooled]

Commodore 64

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Apple ][ Plus

 

[Sable]

First computer was a Texas Instruments TI99/4A

http://www.computercloset.org/ti994a.jpg

Then a speccy +2 followed by a +3.

First PC was a Packard Bell.
486SX 33mhz
4 meg RAM
512k Cirrus Logic CL5424
250MB Connor Harddisk
Single Speed CD Drive
Soundblaster 2.0


£1200

 

[dman]

/I had two rocks that I had to bang together to make a 1. We didn't have 0's we had O's. And we liked it.


Aquarius by Mattel (I believe) which was a poor choice so w/in 30days was returned for C64.

First IBM System was a Portable XT, 8088 4.77MHz w/ 512KB of Ram and 2x 360KB floppy drives and 4" Monochrome Amber display. Had that for quite a few years.

Next upgrade was a 386SX20 followed very quickly (<1yr) by a 486DX50 Clone I built.

 

[dethman]

8086

 

[moshquerade]

a gateway

 

[imported_malcontent]

Radio Shack, TRS-80 Model 1, no hard drive, no floppy, and for a while, no tape drive.

 

[Viper GTS]

IBM Aptiva M55
Pentium 100
1 MB onboard video
16 MB RAM / 1.6 GB HD
4X CD-ROM

Parents & grandparents paid $1500 for it (used) for my 15th birthday. Once I really caught the PC bug & wanted to upgrade it became a bit of a pain. I couldn't sell it (for fear that the parents/grandparents wouldn't understand), & I couldn't do much to upgrade it. I used that until I had the money to build an entirely new system, & then passed it on to my siblings.

The funny thing is it's still in use today. It's now got 128 MB of RAM, a Pentium 233MMX Overdrive & I think a 6.4 GB HD. It's got an install of Windows 95 that has to be 6 years old at least, but it still runs fine.

Viper GTS

 

[DrPizza]

TRS-80 (from radio shack)

 

[Bartman39]

Magnavox Oddessy...

 

[Atomicus]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Apple ][ Plus

All I remember of my Apple ][ G plus was Shufflepuck and Cystal Quest :x

 

[Random Variable]

Commodore 64, 1985ish

 

[SZLiao214]

My first computer was a some intel 386. It was 25mhz and had 4 megs of ram. It had a cd rom! This was when i was about elementary school level.

 

[meltdown75]

C=64

 

[Random Variable]

My C64 had a tape cassette drive. That's really old school.

 

[TallBill]

The first one that I actually owned, not my family, was an amd k6-500.

 

[Zaitsevs]

my first computer was a pentium II 400 mhz machine with 64 meg of ram, 2 gig hard drive ( which I later learned it was actually a ten gig when I learned about partitions) and I'm using it right now actually. oooh and it had a matrox 4mb video card later upgraded to a ATI Radeon 7000!!

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Packard Bell 486SX/33
4MB of RAM (which I later doubled )
240MB HDD
I bought a soundcard for it too, paid $130 for a SB2 compatible. And got on the CD-ROM bandwagon much too early and ended up with a 1X... took me a few hours to get it working with DOS and Win 3.1
But man, did it ever run Wolf3d smoothly

Yep, we had the exact same PC. Dad bought it from Worst Buy one night and we plugged 'er in. Then we later got a Soundblaster and all of a sudden... I could hear gunfire and pinball sounds :shocked:!!!