Your First PC?

[Tmagic650]

An ITGuy with an eMachines... What a surprise

 

[ITGuy702]

Hehe...Tell me about it.

We all have to start somewhere, right?

 

[Tmagic650]

Yes we do... If I was totally clueless about computers, and buying my first, I might pick an eMachines too

 

[ITGuy702]

From my experience with them, it was ok for basic word processing. But once taken out of that realm of computing, it liked to throw "hissy fits".

I guess if that's all the user is going to do and they are on a budget, it's an 'ok' buy. But I personally wouldn't recommend that brand.

 

[taylub]

My first pc and computer was

gateway profile 4
pent. 4 3.0 ghz
256mb ram
80gb HHD

i had to share it with my mom and it died in a year

 

[MarcFOnline]

My first pc and computer was

gateway profile 4
pent. 4 3.0 ghz

It's a bit strange when my newest computer (a P4-3GHz) is the same thing as someone else's first computer... guess I'm getting old!

 

[Barney_Calhoun]

(For free) in 2002 i got my own sweet awesome comp.. FOR FREE!
it had a 300 Mhz p2 192 megs of ram and a 4 meg "AGP" (Hardly) card. With a six gig HD. i have been using it since then and up till about a month ago.

 

[rickk1]

My first pc was back in...wayyyyyy back in ..... 1984. It was a Packard Bell. It was a whopping fast 3mhz or a blazingly fast 9mhz in turbo mode. It had a 30mb hard drive, ms-dos 3.3, and a 5.25" floppy drive. As I recall, my dial-up modem was super fast at 2400 baud. I recall my video card as having only 2 colors but don't remember anything else about it. I didn't have a mouse in those days, it wasn't around in those days. We typed all of our commands.

Those were the days! I recall having my computer call my cousin's computer and we'd play "You sank my battleship" on our rainy days. There was a local bulletin board in which we could leave messages to the sys-op. No email back then. Ms-Dos was our operating system.

 

[thehacker]

My first Pc:
P-III 600Mhz.
20Gb HDD
14" CRT

I think i got my PC too late...

 

[rickk1]

Better late than never...

 

[mica3speedy]

my parents first computer was a 180mhz compaq. Don't remember the specs though. My first computer I bought with my graduation money was an hp pavilion, 500mhz, 128mb ram, decent sized hd, a whopping 8mb video, and 21" crt.

 

[Samstoned]

DX386 80mhz turbo
I think drive was 120mb drive
all I did was invoices and quotes
when I went online I bought a 200mhz with 32mb memory and 250mb drive
windows 95 crashed 4 times a day cost 1200.00

 

[Machinist]

486/66 IBM Aptiva

 

[hamas123]

My first pc's,and i still have/use it now,spec's are:
AMD Duron (tm) processer
796mhz
304mb ram
40gb hard drive
note:Had it for like 11 or 12 years and it's still working.
I'm only 11 but i now i had it since i was born,or a little bit before that because my dad told me.

 

[Daveskater]

i can only remember some of the specs of the first pc we had, but it had: 90mhz processor, 610mb hdd and probably 32mb ram but i'm not exactly sure. ooh and it had a cd rom drive 4x i think

i have an old laptop that i got off ebay to play around with, it has 100mhz pentium cpu, 780(ish)mb hdd, 16mb ram and a floppy drive of course it beats anything out there today

 

[AlbertLionheart]

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"

 

[SNGX1275]

Yeh you are still missing the attachment there Al

 

[AlbertLionheart]

Missing attachment

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.

 

[N3051M]

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

 

[Tmagic650]

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

 

[AlbertLionheart]

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!

 

[Aolish]

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

 

[tastegw]

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

 

[kimsland]

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)

 

[DelJo63]

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