Your First PC?

OK everyone, here i would like u lot to post your very first ever PC!
Mine was:

386 @ 33mhz
1mb RAM
220mb hrad disk

It was given to me by my dad when i was 9 (im now 15) because he upgraded to :
486 @ 66mhz
4mb RAM

(i later got this PC aswell)

Have Fun

When I started university I bought:
486DX2
4Mg ram
300mb hard disk

That was my first PC but not my first computer

"The only computer I have ever thrown out"

My Timex® Sinclair kit (1982) had a mighty 1k of memory & a blazing 3.25Mhz clock speed

+ all kinds of fun parts to play with.

well, if you are talking x86 architecture here, and not "what was your first computer?" then it was:

286 SX 20 MHz (I think!)
2 MB RAM
20 MB HDD
No sound card.
NO PCI BUS (thus ISA graphics card, ISA HDD controller card)
This was actually a good machine at the time which ran a wicked game of Nine Men's Morris....
DOS ONLY

next I upgraded to:

386 SX 33 MHz
4 MB RAM
50 MB HDD
Again no sound card
Again no PCI BUS.
Windows 3.1

Then I upgraded to

486 DX 2-50
20 MB RAM
800 MB HDD
Soundblaster original ISA
Unknown graphics card....
Windows 95

Then I upgraded to

Cyrix PR-200 Plus
16 MB RAM
3.2 GB HDD
Matrix Mystique Video Card PCI
Soundblaster 16
Windows 98

I can't be bothered going on....

The first family PC in my house was an Apple II GS with no hard drive and a 15" Sony Monitor/TV. All I remember was that it cost 5,000 in 1987 and for games I had Bop'n Wrestling and Test Drive.

"My" first computer was a Compu-add 386sx 16mhz with 1mb of ram and a 20mb hard drive. It had a 14" monitor, 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drives, and a Panasonic KXP-1124 dot matrix printer. Once I got an Intel 14.4 external data modem I was hitting the BBS' everyday. In 1993 when I was a freshman in college, I had one of the fastest computers in my dorm. While others had Tandy 286's and Brother Word Processors, I was chugging along with my 386 playing Wolfenstein 3D and downloading all kinds of stuff from L.I.T.S. BBS.

Here is the "new" homepage for L.I.T.S.(Lost in the Supermarket).
I believe he shut the BBS down in 2000, but its memory lives on through this site. Check it out..Its kinda cool to see what people were doing before the internet as we know it now.
http://speakeasy.org/~jmarrs/index.html

My first one was an 80286 12Mhz with NO hard drives. Somehow I did manage to get 2 5 1/4 floppy disk drives with that system. Still remember the number of disks I had to swap to play Wing Commander 1

Mine was a 386sx 16 Mhz, 5.25 and 3.5 drives, 80 meg hard drive windows 3.1 with a whopping 2 megs of ram, the first meg being hard wired, no sound or cd-rom or modem.

Speaking of firsts, anyone remember doing the BBS thing all night with 2400 baud ??

Yes... It was on a dumb terminal the first time... Quite fun, until I managed to connect to a big company and gain administrator access... Then it suddenly got very scary! (I was 6 at the time....)

As for my first x86:
Dell Dimension xps p100c
Pentium 100
S3 Trio32/64
16Mb Ram
1Gb Disk
4x cdrom

I payed around 2200£ for it at that time (1996)...

I never knew you were an L33tHaXor MrGaribaldi.

I only got online with my first pentium (P60 which died so P75 which I dropped a HD on and fried so P100). Prior to that I had Uni access to the online world of BBS. My first was called Monochrome which still runs today

My parents actually got their first computer after me, they got a 486 dx2 66 with cd and all. It is now sitting in my house, althought I have no idea what I will do with it. It has a whopping 512 meg hard drive. It's just collecting dust right now.

Well, I don't know about HaXor, but I were eLiTe back in the days... Though that was a long time ago...

I started using BBS' (again) around 1994 after a little break (2 years)...
Was at my friends house for ages playing (Jones in the Fast Lane springs to mind) and perusing BBS'...

When I finally got my own 'puter, my family gave me my own telephoneline so our regular wouldn't be busy all the time... I even managed to avoid paying for it (But I had to stay under 150£ a quarter...)

I remember my first computer. It was a Pentium 133. I loved it. Can't compare to those today, however :rolleyes:
Come to think of it, I miss it.

I wish I had an Amiga

I still remember the first time I saw an Amiga. My computer teacher brought it to school and showed us a demo (similar to those that Future Crew made) and half way through, he could remove the disk and put in the 2nd disk while the demo was running. No interruptions whatsoever... Coolness

Oh yes... Those were the ANSI days where TheDraw is your friend in drawing and BlueWave newsreader is your most commonly opened app