Your First PC?

[ToRN]

386DX 40 MHz, 4 MB RAM, 40 MB HDD, SIS VGA with 512 KB, 14", no cdrom and no sound.

 

[boeingfixer]

Originally posted by Arris

Anyone want to go back to the first Pong game consoles?
The were great. And then those grandstand game boxes which had tennis (just pong really), two player vs computer tennis (wowsers), basketball (pong with more walls and different out area - the baskets), football... those were the days

Yeah Arris, I had forgotten about our first game console, I think we had an atari, on a black and white telle at the time, hey does anyone remember when TV's didn't have color ??

 

[setscrew]

I am still using my first computer.

A lowly Dell PIII 600 that is showing its age with the current generation of games.

I am slowly piecing together my next machine that I will build myself. Hopefully my new screamer will be running sometime in May.

Looking forward to giving the the PIII 600 to my mother (perfect for email, IM, and browsing).

 

[SuperCheetah]

It's funny to see you all posting your old specs. I personally just built my first computer (the one I'm using now) so I can't compete with your generation. I do remember playing on the families old 486 though. Those were the days of text and old school gaming

One thing that made me laugh was a previous post about overclocking where a guy overclocked an 8mh processor to 10 mh!!! That's a 25% overclock! If I could only do that to my 1.4 Athlon! Crazy stuff

 

[SNGX1275]

Originally posted by boeingfixer


Yeah Arris, I had forgotten about our first game console, I think we had an atari, on a black and white telle at the time, hey does anyone remember when TV's didn't have color ??

haha, yep. My Commodore 64 was going to a 13" black and white TV. I remember how excited I got when I got to hook it up to a color tv and play with those commmands that would change the background color and the font color and the border color. I have long since forgotten how to do that though.

 

[boeingfixer]

My last computer will still be an AMD one though.

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Originally posted by SNGX1275
My Commodore 64 was going to a 13" black and white TV. I remember how excited I got when I got to hook it up to a color tv and play with those commmands that would change the background color and the font color and the border color. I have long since forgotten how to do that though.

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[Mac_Bug]

486/33 DX
210 MB harddrive
8 bit speaker somewhere inside
Trident 8900c (I think, forget now) vid
8 MB RAM!
5 and half plus 3 and half drives!
I added a 56k modem later on.

Lived on it from 1992 to 1999

So you can see why I raid local library terminals after school to MUD. It's about the only thing I can run, after I discovered that Doom makes me sick.

 

[Spliffmeister]

my first PC was a 700 Athlon only 2 years ago, which has since burned in a horrible overclocking incident.

My first computer was a Sinclair Spectrum (yes with the rubber keyboard) 48K ram and 64 colours!! Any1 remember the epileptic fit inducing load sequence? Those were the days, and I still have it - Manic Miner - still as playable as ever!!

 

[Supra]

My first computer was an acer aspire. Got it from wal-mart in 1997 for christmas.
Amd k-6 166mhz(later upgraded to 233mhz)
16mb EDOram(later upgraded to 48mb)
1mb ati onboard video:blackeye: (upgraded to a PCI voodoo3 2000 and 3000)
33.6k modem(upgraded to 56k)
2gb ata33 hdd(added 500mb hdd)
CD-ROM
14in monitor

The only prob i had with it was in 2000 the fan in the powersupply died and i didnt catch it till the system locked up. Boy was it toasty in there Used it from then until last summer when I built my own PC that I use now. I still use the monitor. Hoping to use my tax return to buy a 21in monitor:grinthumb

 

[D-cibeL]

I got my first computer in grade 6. It was an AMD 486 SX 66MHZ w/ 8MB RAM, 1 MB cirrus logic video and a SB PRO sound. All this was hooked up to a 15" *cough* flatscreen *cough* monitor.

I later upgraded to 16 MB RAM, Gravis UltraSound MAX w/ 1 MB RAM, and traded my CPU for the DX model. I couldn't stand not having a math co-processor. I still have the soundcard, and yes, it does sound better than any soundcard on the market today.

 

[p05ta1]

packardBell

Yup... i took the bate


486Sx
800meg hd
8meg ram
floppy drive
keyboard
ms 2 button mouse
14.4 modem
12.5 monitor


And a 2x cdrom upgrade was 200$
then i upgraded with 16megs of ram for 400$

Ack, those where the days

 

[SleeperDC]

my first computer was a IBM
Pentium 166 - upgraded to Pentium 200MMX later
32MB - upgraded to 64MB later
SiS onboard video - added a voodoo1 later
SB16
2.1G - added 2x 3.2G later
USR 56K

then i built my next computer
2x celeron 366@550
abit BP6
128MB
13G
voodoo 3
SB live value

now, i am using
2x celeron 366@550
abit BP6
256 + 128MB
IBM 40G + maxtor 60G
radeon 8500
SB live value
3com 3CR990-TX-97 NIC

i am going to upgrade my cpu + mb.
but same story, no money~

 

[MYOB]

Thr first PC in my house (when i was 1) was an AST 286 that was really only used for the internets predessecors. ( i'm talking 1988 here!) . My first PC was an acorn Pentium 75. i use the chip from it as a paperweight now. I currently have a self-build AMD 850 running XP, and a Dell 266 running Win 98 and BeOS

 

[XYZ359]

I really don't remember what my first computer was but I knew I was using it.

I'm dumb...I think it was a Tandy or something like that with DOS OS on it...

We got rid of it.

:grinthumb

 

[MrGaribaldi]

Originally posted by SuperCheetah
One thing that made me laugh was a previous post about overclocking where a guy overclocked an 8mh processor to 10 mh!!! That's a 25% overclock! If I could only do that to my 1.4 Athlon! Crazy stuff

Hehe... Well, I didn't enter the oc scene before the pentium came along, but then it was fun...

A friend of mine got a p120, when I had just bought a p100... Reading the mobo manual for 10 min, and I suddenly had a p133... Man, was he pissed when he found his mobo only supported 120

More or less the same oc I had with a duron... 750 -> 1ghz

 

[PHATMAN5050]

Intel Pentium 166mhz w/ MMX
64mb SDRam
Floppy
16x CDRom
All of HP's AWESOME progs :lmao:

 

[Ravellidar]

Hehe, the first personal computer that I ever owned was an Apple IIc. Yes.....an Apple IIC. I got it way back in 1986. It had a whole 128k of ram too. And that 1mhz processor made Ultima 1 really fly. It was the first computer game I ever owned too. The monochrome graphics were stellar too on that 9 inch monitor it came with. I even had a 2400 baud modem to go with it. Those were the days.

 

[young&wild]

mine was a:

166mhz pentium
Intel Motherboard
32 mb RAM
S3 Trio 64 1 MB Video Card
Aztech Washington Galaxy 16
8 x creative CDROM

 

[dalex]

Hi
8088, 4,77MHz, 640KB Ram, 5,25" Disk
Later upgradet to: 8,66MHz, 1MB Ram 5,25" Disk, 3,5" Disk, 2x20MB HD
80286
30386 DX 33
80486 DX 33
80486 DX/4 100
P-75
P-133
PII-450
AMD Athlon XP1800

 

[Boogityboo04]

I may as well resurrect this thread again... It is about old stuff

My first computer was a blazing fast Mac Plus:

1 MB of RAM
a new double-sided 800 KB floppy drive!
System 3.2
8 MHz 68000 CPU
9" b&w screen
60W PSU

It weighed like 16 lbs, the only thing a I really remember was I had this little screen saver of a snowblower that cleared some white stuff and then the stuff reappeared and I used to sit and watch it. Hey, I was a 6 year old kid, what would you expect?

EDIT: Lol, look at this page for the MULTISPEED ACCELERATOR browsing the web pages and opening files were mere seconds away!

 

[greatman05]

I used this PC when I was five:
Pentium (NO MMX)166mHZ
Trident Microsystems 9680 PCI Graphics card /w 1MB of memory
80MB System RAM
1.58HDD /w W95 (Later upgraded to W98SE)
Soundblaster 16 ISA sound card
8X Mitsumi CD-ROm drive

I blew up the MOBO about 1-2 years ago by overclocking the processor...
but, I still have the Graphics card, HDD, CD-ROM, and sound card...ahh, the memories of instability...

 

[TS | Thomas]

Hmm, my first PC (Ignoring the Commodore 64 & some Amstrad system ) was an AST system;

Pentium 166Mhz MMX
16MB RAM
2MB S3 Virge
Soundblaster 16
2GB (?) Hard drive
8x (?) CD Drive
Floppy Drive

& here I am now 10 years later with;

Athlon 64 3200+
1GB RAM
346GB Hard Drive space
Soundblaster X-Fi
Geforce 6150
52x CD Writer
16x DVD Drive

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Mine was bought way back in 1997 .

Pentium 200MHz w/MMX Technology
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 sound card
Creative Blaster Modem 56K
S3 Trident 1MB video card
32MB SDRAM
24X CD-ROM
1.44" floppy disk drive
2GB Seagate HDD

It still works like a charm though, which is absolutely amazing.

 

[MarcFOnline]

My first computer was a Commodore 64, with the enormous 5.25" floppy drive (if you had a C64, you know what I'm talking about) and no hard drive. Gotta love those.

Here are the stats on my first PC...
(It was actually already somewhat below average when I got it in 1993. My friends had a 486DX2, and I was jealous. )

386SX-16MHz
4MB RAM, which I later upgraded to 8MB
I don't remember the video card... I think it was a Cirrus
3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive
5.25" 1.2MB (high-density! w00t!) floppy drive
300MB hard disk
13" 4-color CGA monitor
No modem
MS-DOS 5 with a very sloooooow installation of Windows 3.1
I added a sound card later... it was a cheap one, I forget the brand

Of course, the first PC I used was back in 1985, on my grandfather's Honeywell PC/XT. That thing actually ran like a charm until about 2001 or 2002, when it finally gave up the ghost. I miss that computer...