Your First PC?

Anyone remember machines made by a Dutch co called Hercules? We thought it was the dogs bo**ocks.
I posted this image on another thread - anyone recognise what this is?? The little one is a 40Gb 2.5"

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too damn clever this forum - the image is/was already attached to a message in thread 'sales people' so here is another one - as said the smaller drive is a 2.5" laptop of about 40 Gb.

thats aahh... verry big hdd....:suspiciou

The first hard drives had 20" platters. They were 10 and 20MB capacity, and very slow in accessing data... Very noisy too

The platters in my lump are 5" - but I don't think the drive was that big in capacity - maybe a couple of Mb. I remember my second PC had a 30Gb drive in it -whew, all that space!

First Comp:

P2 200mhz with 64mb ram, 2 GB HD.... IDK much else about it.

Second Comp (built)

Generic Case
XP 2000+
A7V333 Mobo
VIA KT333 chipset
512MB DDR Crucial
40GB HD
GF3 upgraded to 9600XT upgraded to 6600GT
Antec 430w

Specs of your first PC?

hi, was just reading a thread in the "other hardware" section about free older parts and it reminded me of my first pc i ever owned.

here are the specs that i can remember:

cpu: not sure but it had a bus speed of 133MHz
memory: 128mb pc100 ( i still have this stick in my desk hehe)
video card: voodoo 16MB
mobo: unknown
hard drives: 10GB western digital @ 10,000rpm's (xp pro took just about all of this up) + 4GB western digital @ 7,200rpm's
beige full tower care (ugly as all hell)
cooling: i dont remember seeing any
cd/dvd drivers: just a cd rom drive with slow writing abilities.
power supply: unknown

i had purchased this off ebay im going to say about 6 years ago for about $350 + shipping. i then bought a 15" or 17" CRT monitor to go along with it at a local pc shop for another $75. i was real excited about my first computer, until it died due to power surge 2 years later. but before it died, i had to upgrade the video card to a g-force 64MB card.

boy have times changed in the pc world in these few short years.

click below to see part of the pc100 stick

Wow my first computer had 4 Ram cards in it ! Yes I was sure proud of my 4 X 1meg Sims. Later I updated it to 8X 1Meg Sims. But then again, Windows wasn't even made yet.
God I'm old !
I've still got some of those Sim cards, as well (they always faulted, on everyones computer - some things haven't changed)

cira '89; wife's system
Motorola 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU, with 25 MHz .
The IIci came with either a 40 or an 80 megabyte hard disk (scsi). Added flopptical 230mb device + hi-end scanner.

used it for desktop publishing for over 7 years.

cira '93
Pentium III, 733mhz 512 ram, dual boot win98se/Linux RH 6

my first pc was about 10 years ago

333mhz cpu
128mb ram
rage gfx card
windows 98
sexy acer 19inch crt monitor

My first pute was a Commodore 64...fun machine when you made a error in entering code.Later got a IBM ps2 with 4mb ram and a 140 mb hard drive at the time it was the top of the line later upgraded to 8mb ram and added a 250 mb hard drive and my friends thought I was nuts because they figured I'd never need that much storage.

All i remember it was a IBM that had like 60 something ram in it

Smokin' Machine Specs

My first computer came from the school's computer graveyard, a 486/66 that I LOADED with a HUGE 4 MB of RAM! Amazing I know :grinthumb My second was a 75MHz P1 with (If i recall correctly) a 4 GB hard drive, again from the school graveyard. BUT, I was so cool and could nab any parts I wanted from the piles, I had DUAL MONITORS!!!! HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA...Totally unnecessary at 9 years old, but why not!

Haha, my "first" computer...to say the least....didn't deserve the torture it recieved. The person we got it from was one of those flea market salespeople. He showed us this nice computer, Win 98, worked perfect. We went to the car to wait for him to bring it out, and 15 minutes later he shows up. We get it home and we could have sworn it was either a different computer or he did something. It had absolutely max 10gig hard drive with no space left what-so-ever, and was slow as ****.

That computer ended up being thrown in a lake...... :X

My first REAL computer is the one I am on now. It is a Dell Dimension 2400.
Now it has got:
1Gig of ram,
PCI FX 5200 (256mb)
Celeron 2.4GHz
40 gig hdd

Also, I added in a capture card hoping I could record stuff from VHS tapes, but the sound was so low that you can't hear crap. It also lags when trying to play MGS2 from the PS2 on it... :X

Hmm...let me just get it out of the closet...

Not sure what motherboard...
66MHz 80486DX2 (No it wasn't my compaq.)
16MB FPM
13" CRT (Colorvision or Colorview or something.)
Quad-Speed CD-ROM
1GB Hard Drive
Windows 95 Internet Explorer Edition

I envied my uncle who could play SimCity2000 on his HP (Which I now have)
HP Pavilion 7280P
Windows 95
100MHz Pentium
32MB EDO 72pin simms
S3 Virge PCI based Graphics 4mb
2GB Quantum Bigfoot 4200RPM ATA-33 (Its a hard disk larger than a CD Drive)


Earliest One I remember well?:
This thing beat the crap out of my uncles pc! (I COULD PLAY SIMCITY 3000)
Compaq Presario 5441
Windows 98 SE
475MHz AMD K6-2
Gigabyte GA-5SMM Super Socket 7 Motherboard
8MB SiS Integrated Graphics (It could surprisingly play the sims! and Jedi Knight!)
Old Integrated Audio
Lite-On 32x CD-ROM Drive
Seagate 8.4GB HD (Formatted Capcity of 7.88GB!)
15" PrOview CRT Monitor
10Mbps Ethernet Card
Oh, I remember AOL 5.0 on it too, there was a 56kbps modem! WHOO! Very fast in 1998 when people didn't use flash in any of their websites!

But then He topped me with his HP Pavilion 504n with a CD-RW!!!

But I got revenge!
1.9GHz Pentium 4 Wilamette 400MHz FSB
Jetway P4X400DBP w/ VIA Apollo P4X400 Chipset
BTC 8xDVD+RW!! (Which now is dead.)
64MB ATi Radeon 8500 (to a 128MB Sapphire 9550 that didn't work, to a e-GeForce FX5500 256MB, to a 256MB BFG 6800GT)
512MB DDR-333 Mushkin Enhanced to be specific!
60GB Maxtor Diamondmax Plus ATA-133
200GB WDC200JB-00DUA3 (Western Digital Caviar PATA-100)

And Now!!!...

Well, just read the specs in my profile.

I think the first computer I ever touched was the Lisa Apple Computer ( god I hate macintosh o.o )

Then a couple other Apple computers ( thank you elementary school! ) then I eventually owned a 286, then 386, then Pentium, Pentium II, Celeron, Pentium III, AMD AM2 x2 64.

Wow that ASUS P3V4X board lasted me about 8+ years x.x

I am 23 years old by the way... Im not THAT old X3

Current PC is now Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Addition with a 5600+ AMD dual core 64 bit processor. =3

My first PC is...
IBM computer
thta's all i can remember

my first pc was back in russia a 386 box
i dont remeber much about it but i used to love to play games on it especially this one with caveman and a bat lol i forgot what its called