Your first PC

[ashish]

here is a good one, what was the configuration of the first PC that you bought?

I bought my first one in 97-98..

it was a:

P-II 266 Mhz
4MB Onboard AGP W/Integrated sound :P
14" monitor
2.1 GB HDD
32x CD-ROM drive
32 MB RAM
1.44 MB Floppy Drive
Standard Keyboard and mouse

That was a very top-of-the-line sort of configuration around that time :D

[Conan]

In 1998 I had:

Celeron 333 mhz
14 inch monitor
onboard video
32 mb RAM
4 gig hard drive

[Big Booger]

I think mine was either a Tandy 1000 or a commodore 64... It hooked to my TV *which was black and white about 18 years ago.

[rohitk89]

P2 with 64 MB of RAM. I don't remember anything else; it was way back in 1995 or 1996 :(

[carloc]

1995 for me:

Pentium 90MHz
mobo Intel
RAM 16MB (4x4MB SIMM)
hd 512MB Quantum
video card cirrus with 512kB


but it's still working with Windows'98 after upgrading RAM to 64MB (2x32MB)

[FastGame]

I never wanted a computer, in fact I hated them. When my son got into High School I had to get him one or he'd be an outcast :p

I got him the most powerful PC of the day, Plll 800mhz 512mb PC133 40gig HD.

One day I was messing around with his PC and I discovered porn on the net, I built myself a PC the next day :D

Officially my first PC was AMD 1.4 T Bird, 512mb PC2100, Geforce 2 Ultra. I gave the parts to phishhead some years ago :)

[rik]

Mine was an AMD 286 DX4 100 mhz. 154 mg hdd, 8 mb ram.

[efc]

Mine had two 5.25" floppy drives. Clock speed was 7.16 MHz


Model: Tandy 1000 SX
CPU: Intel 8088
RAM: 256K (Expandable to 640K)
Ports: Edge Card Tandy Printer, DB9 Serial, Tandy Joystick x2 & Light Pen
Display: TCGA 16 Colors & CGA 4 Colors
Storage: One or Two 5.25" 360K Floppies
Operating System: MS-DOS


Before that I had a Color Computer often referred to as "CoCo".


First Released: 1980
CPU: 8 bit 6809E
Clock speed: 0.89 MHz
Bus type: Tandy Proprietary
Data bus width: 8 - bit
Address bus width: 16 - bit
Memory
Standard on system board 4K
(early models) or 16K
Maximum on system board 32k
(early models) or 64K
Maximum total memory 64K
ROM: 8K expandable to 16K
Ports: RS232C serial ports,
Mouse/joystick (shared)
Display Screen size: 32 X 16
Resolution: 9 / 256 X 192
Storage : Tape

Operating System: Microsoft basic ver 1.1 (built in)

[petard]

Leading Edge 8088, with 512k RAM, 20Meg Hard drive, 5.25 floppy drive, and a monochrome monitor running MS DOS 3.1.

[phishhead]

My dad built a heathkit with a super fast 9600k phone that you stuck the reciever in to surf the BB's. but my first was a 486SX with 32 megs of ram and a top of the line 4 meg tnt GPU. I think it had 512meg hard drive too.
and fastgame its that board and cpu is stripes server last I checked.

[blackhat]

PII, 256meg Seagate, 5.25 and 1.44 floppies, CD-Rom intimately attached to Creative software, Win95a, 16-bit X-fer, delivered disassembled in a bushel basket. Upgraded to 4, 10gig HD(all combinations), and Win95d 32-bit X-fer. Still runs fine for some programs I dont want to run on my XP box.
An odd complaint- When I worked in these older systems, I always had the hood up and learned tons of "stuff". This XP box has run flawlessly for 3 years now and I havent learned much of anything since. I hope I can get my hands on some "broken" equipment soon. DRB

[zipp51]

I had a Texas Instrument TI99 with a tape drive.;) :D Put a little counting game with sharks and ducks on the tape and tried to interest my 4 yr old daughter into correctly counting the ducks.Scared the living crap out of her the first time she got the answer wrong and the shark ate the duck.:o

[Richard]

1st - ZX81
2nd - Dragon 32
3rd (ish) 8086 4.77mhz