Your 1st P.C. What was it?

EOA_Mushy

Heres mine, ibm "portable" (lol) 8088 - Portable ment a bloody big metal handle bolted to the back...
(Its not this actual model cant find the exact one)

IBM_Portable_PC.jpg

BaZmO*

EOA_Mushy wrote:

Heres mine, ibm "portable" (lol) 8088 - Portable ment a bloody big metal handle bolted to the back...
(Its not this actual model cant find the exact one)

IBM_Portable_PC.jpg

'kin Hell!! Did you hve a bad heart or something?

I'm really old school. Mine was a calculator! 5318008

EOA_Mushy

BaZmO* wrote:

'kin Hell!! Did you hve a bad heart or something?

...

hopeful

First comp was Research Machines 380z. Loved that beasty. I would really like to get hold of one for old times sake...so if anyone has one.....

projectmayhem

mine was an laptop who's name i cannot remember (don't think it was dell). white and horrible with windows 3.1

RobertFoster

A Pentium 1 dealie with 16MB RAM and a 1GB HDD. Only 10 years ago. I'm such a newbie

BopNiblets

Thanks guys, I feel younger looking at this thread, haha.

Gateway 2000, 200MHz PC, 32MBs o' RAM.

irlrobins

First computer was Amstrad CPC 464

<img>http://histoire.info.online.fr/images/col-cpc464.jpeg</img&gt;

First proper PC was Gateway 166 Pentium 1 with MMX. Upgraded it from 16Mb to 32MB and thought it was shit hot!

Creamy Goodness

mine was a AST 486 Bravos, can't seem to find any pictures of it though

mada999

Amiga 600

then Fujitsu 166 mmx 16MB ram.............

Third_Echelon

Commodore 64, then a ZX Spectrum. They were my first computers.

My first proper PC was in 1998.

Packard Bell Multimedia PC
266 MHz CPU PII MMx (Multimedia Extensions)
32 MB RAM
4 GB Hard Disk
15" Colour Monitor
and a cool keyboard and mouse with a scroll-wheel thingy.....

spartacus93

My first was an "Ultra" Pentium 2 MMX 233Mhz, with 64megs of RAM and a 3 Gig Hard drive. An external 33.6k modem as well. Oh and 8 meg graphics (think it was 8). Windows 95 with USB support!

Dizzyblabla

BaZmO* wrote:

I'm really old school. Mine was a calculator! 5318008

ha ha ! brilliant

Amstrad 464, the tapes took about 3 1/2 minutes to load a game! (same image as irlrobins above http://histoire.info.online.fr/images/col-cpc464.jpeg)
then I had an Apple Power PC something or other... 32 MB - and even played CD's!!
My first Windows machine wasn't til I went to college and that was a Compaq... humm, did it have 4 Gigs? I think it did.

Stephen

My first PC was an AST 486 with 8MB of RAM and a 540MB hard disk and l33t quad-speed CD-ROM -- And windows bloody 95, it was awful running it on those specs, so I soon upgraded to a massive 32MB of RAM :eek:
Before that I had an Amiga 600, which I loved dearly and regret selling. Before the Amiga all i had was an atari 2600 console... in the intervening years I only got passing bits of fun with other people's computers, mostly a commodore 64.

melekalikimaka

an Apple 2c, was a great lil thing, then a zenith masterport 386sx lappy

zokrez

A ZX81http://tecfa.unige.ch/~nova/img/zx81-1.jpg
Then a VIC 20 http://www.hogia.se/pcmuseum/datorer75-84/hemdator/vic-20.jpg
Then a Commodore 64 http://home.iprimus.com.au/king_willy/kw64/graphics/mine/c64.jpg
Then nothing for about 10 years ! Still know nothing about computers. :rolleyes:

Dundalk Online

i must be the youngest!! my first pc was a windows NT.. no mouse... the good old alt_F manouvere!!

mike65

486 dx4 100 (amd) with 8 mb and 540mb disk runing win95 v2. Upgrading to 12 mb ram was a major finantial undertaking!

Mike.

tadgh

Wang 386-SX, 16 MHz, 40 MB HDD, 4 x 256 kB RAM 14 in. monitor
Cost approx IR£1400

jesus_thats_gre

Hmm a Digital Dec Lpv DX2 66 with 8 mb ram, 540mb hard drive and a dual speed cd rom drive.. hardcore. Had windows 3.11

jesus_thats_gre

Dizzyblabla wrote:

humm, did it have 4 Gigs? I think it did.

If I remember rightly, it might have been 4.6.. I remember pining for a hard disk that was 4.6 gigs..

Domster

First computer was the Commodore 64. Then the Atari 520ST.

Me first proper PC was an Intel Pentium ll with 32Mb of RAM and a 4Gb HDD.

pontovic

My first computer was a Prizhnod Splenky from Czechoslovakia. It was designed in the early 1980's and it was used for mathematics. I managed to get it running a version of Tetris, for the PDP19 ( Soviet Computer ) which it was loosely based on. A very simple version of tetris was designed and run on this computer. It looked awful because of the lack of sprite processing capabilities on this computer.

SparrowHawk

A 286 with 1MB of RAM & a 40MB HD!!

charlo_b

Mine was a Dick Smith VZ300 it was class....wrote my first "hello world" on that beast.

http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?st=1&c=980

Then got the Amiga 500, and then an IBM 486DX33 now it was the dogs danglys for a while at least...cost a fortune too back in 92/93.

BeardyGit

In chronological order:

Acorn Electron
BBC Micro (which as far as I know was actually an acorn too!)
ZX Spectrum 16k
ZX Spectrum 48k (still have it and now another to keep it company)
Philips 286, 12Mhz, 1Mb ram and a 20mb HDD, Monochrome VGA! (still have it somewhere)
Commodore 286 - can't remember the specs but I think it had a 30MB HDD and definately had colour graphic output
AST Bravo 386 DX16 (I think), 4MB ram, 40MB HDD, SOUNDBLASTER & 1x CD Drive!
Acer 486 SX 25, 8MB, 270MB, - With....Wait for it....Windows 95! 26 floppys to load. Took 15 Minutes to boot. Ha ha :eek:
Then a white box with a Cyrix 486 DX50, 8MB ram and a 510MB HDD (nice little machine too)
Ultra (Romak) 486 DX2 66, upgraded later to an AMD 486 DX4/133 (VERY fast in its time)
White box Pentium 90 etc.

The list goes on, and on, and on......

Khannie

my first computer was a sord M5.



A truly crappy computing experience. Even at the time.
Then a speccy 128, then an amiga, then a P2 233...upgraded bit by bit since then.

garrethg

Commodore 128, yeah SID chip! How I lusted after the Amiga 500 though...

hobie

Sinclair ZX 80 ........ this beast would blow anything off the road at the time except a 'Mainframe' !!!! ....

Firmware: 3.25 MHz NEC 780-C CPU (copy of Zilog Z80A CPU)
4K ROM, 1K RAM (externally expandable to 16K)
Display: 24 lines x 32 character text display
Monochrome only
Sound: None
I/O: Z80 bus, 250 baud cassette interface, RF television out
Storage: External cassette recorder

http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/computers/zx80/zx80_photos.htm

make me sweat just to think about it ....

BaZmO*

EOA_Mushy wrote:

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It looks like a heart rate monitor.

Idleater

Apple Macintosh plus. Also went for the optional external 20mb hard drive too. It played Dark Castle which I have never since been able to find (other than on an emulator which didn't really compare).

hobie

Eventual total time waiting for a simple broadband installation from Esat BT / IOL: 13 weeks, 5 days.

Khannie ....as an aside .... ordered Eircom BB on the 1st feb .... a free router and cables/filters etc arrived a week later and the line was running BB at just under 2mb on the 10th feb ....

bringitdown

In order:

BBC Micro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
Apple Mac Performa 6200 (PowerPC : 100Mhz) best PC I ever had - Marathon was a great FPS.
Dell Dimension XPSD233 (P2 : 233Mhz)
Dell Dimension D800 (P3 : 800Mhz)
Self Build (P4 : 3Ghz)

... Future for me - I predict a return to Mac for media center duties a some stage along with a x86 self build for gaming.

art

Apple Mac 512e.

The 512 was the amount of RAM: 512k. The "e" meant it could read "double density" disks as far as I recall. Can't remember if it even had a hard drive, I vaguely remember putting on an external floppy drive to it for some reason (which only read single sided floppies!) - can't think why now I'd need to do that unless there was no internal storage?

I still used that computer nearly ten years after it was released to do the odd bit of report writing and the like. The files created on it were perfectly compatible with the modern machines in work etc. so it was perfectly usable. Then I gave it to an aunt who used it for a while after that again. Brilliant machines the old Apples that way, just really well put together, straight forward to use and nothing ever seemed to go wrong with them!

Oriel

Commodore Amiga 600, then a Gateway 2000 166Mhz 6Gb.

ghost26ie

an amstrad, dont remember the model or such.

quazzy

Mine was a BBC Micro with a Black and White Monitor

Played chuckie egg for many an hour - was great

rainbow kirby

When I was 7, I was given an old Spectrum 128k... it was already 6 years old at that point. I remember playing some really crappy games on it...
My first real computer came about 9 years ago, it had a 166MHz Pentium MMX processor, 16MB RAM, 2GB HDD and a 1MB graphics card, lol... It was crap at the time, but it lasted us 6 years at home. My next one was bought at Christmas 2002, it had a 2GHz P4 processor, 256MB RAM, 64MB integrated graphics and a 40GB HDD. It was quite an improvement on the old one, but still not brilliant. This one is now my brother's, solely used for downloading music.
I got my most recent one in June 2005, for my 21st. Apple iBook G4 12", 1.2GHz PPC processor, 512MB RAM, 32MB Radeon 9200, and a tiny 30GB HDD. Apart from a couple of reliability issues, it's been the best computer I've ever owned by a long shot.

prospect

Mine was an Oric Atmos 48K !!!!!!



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Ooops, it was actually this one first:

hobie

around 1989....1990? I got an IBM PS2 ..... (286?) ...... I still have it up on a shelf ..... and it still works today

themole

Amiga 500,

then a PC: 486 DX2 66, 8MB RAM, 420MB HD, 15" Monitor,
with the "multimedia package", including a sound card with speakers and a double speed CD ROM


the monitor cost a sh1t load extra because it wasn't the "standard" 14"

afaik, the DX version we got had a floating point unit where as the SX version did not.

RM05*

irlrobins wrote:

First computer was Amstrad CPC 464

<img>http://histoire.info.online.fr/images/col-cpc464.jpeg</img&gt;

First proper PC was Gateway 166 Pentium 1 with MMX. Upgraded it from 16Mb to 32MB and thought it was shit hot!

oh my god, I havnt seen that pc in years it brings back so many memorys, I loved that computor.

darkmaster2

Sinclair Spectrum 48K


Then

Commodore 64 (newer model)


Then

Various Amigas (500+ and A1200 with 10Mb Ram and 30Mhz acc card / 2gb hard drive)


Used that on the net for a while,

Then entered the generic PC land and bought an Amd K62 machine

prospect

In fairness, there was a lot more style in those days.
Today nearly all machines look the same, apple excluded.

Tom Dunne

First computer was an Atari 800XL, followed by an ST 520.

First PC was a 486 running at an incredible 33Mhz with 4 Mb of RAM. Only had a 3.5" floppy drive, but had a SCSI port at the back. I remember ringing Peats about an external SCSI CD-ROM drive and they quoted me 700 pounds. I was earning 150 pounds a week at the time!

Ruu_Old

I had a Wang clicky for something similar. It had a savage of a processor, a 386 5 1/4" floppy drive FTW! \0/

darkmaster2

tom dunne wrote:

First computer was an Atari 800XL,

My cousin used to have one of those, The thing used make some horrible noises :eek:

remember bughunt with the lightgun?

rogue-entity

My first PC, (well I did (and still) have an Amiga A600, but I just used it for games) Compaq Deskpro 2000; Pentium 133, 16MB Ram, 1GB HDD, Integrated Graphics and a 14" Monitor. I got this upgraded to 32MB and a 6GB HDD. And used it till the power supply failed.

My second PC, it was a Compaq Presario; AMD Duron 700MHz, 64MB RAM (non-upgradeable), 20GB HDD, CD Writer, DVD Reader, Modem. I no longer use this machine and am selling it, it has no HDD at the moment because I am using it to replace the HDD in my third PC.

My third PC, self-built from the parts of my first machine plus some new parts.
Pentium 3 500/733MHz, 384MB RAM, 20GB HDD, DVD Rewriter.

I will be either rebuilding my third PC from scratch, or replacing its HDD and building a new one from scratch and using the old one as a server.

Tobias Greeshman

Commodore 64




then I got a:

AST Premium S20 386, 2mb Ram, 40mb HDD, Win 3.1



then a AST Bravo, Pentium I 166Mhz, 32mb RAM, 2GB HDD, Win 95

currently a Dell Dimension 4300, Pentium IV 1.6Ghz, 256mb RAM, 40Gb HDD, WinXp Pro/Redhat

EOA_Mushy

tadgh wrote:

Wang 386-SX, 16 MHz, 40 MB HDD, 4 x 256 kB RAM 14 in. monitor
Cost approx IR£1400

I had one of these too.... Oh the memory's Wang dont make computers any more (or any thing i think):)

zod

386DX 4MB RAM...

back in them days when math co-processors felt important :rolleyes: