Let's talk our first PC

corblimey

Just thinking about the first PC I owned. It was a Dell (I don't know what model it was). It had a 210MB h/d (it was meant to have 120MB, but a friend of mine who worked there 'fudged' the numbers slightly). It had 4MB RAM (I think, it may have only had 2) and was a speedy 486DX. It was Windows 3.1, so this must've been around 93/94. I don't think there was room for anything else on it once I'd installed Windows. It was still light years ahead of the work PC I was using at the time which needed to have its hard drive 'parked' when I wanted to move it.

I upgraded that machine to within an inch of its life over the next few years, adding memory, bigger h/d and I remember buying an overclocked chip aswell at some point to bring it up to sub-Pentium speeds. I still have the h/d somewhere

Come on, let's all show our age!

oisin

Amstrad 1640 bought in 1986. 8086 processor, 640KB RAM. It ran MS-DOS 3.2. No hard disk it had two floppy disk drives A: and B: (5 1/4 inch). You put the boot floppy into the A: drive and application disk in the B: drive. I think the monitor could run 64 colours. Later upgraded it by adding a 32 MB hard card which I thought I could never possibly fill.

It was a great machine for its time and a big stepup from my Sinclair Spectrum (which I still have) and on which I learned to write machine code.

Happy days.

Teamhar

A Packard Bell with Windows 95 which had to be installed from a box of floppy disks! My dad got it around 1996 and it cost the guts of 2 grand. Think it had an 8GB HDD but I could be wrong. Original RAM not sure about but it did get upgraded to 128MB- my Dad's friend from Moss Technology came around to do it and I was fascinated looking at its innards as it lay casing off on the coffee table. Pentium MMX proc I think. It had a CDROM drive, a floppy drive of course but it also had a radio tuner card in it which was cool! I have very fond memories of going onto the internet at that time and thinking it was the most amazing thing ever- the sound of a dial-up modem still fills me with nostalgia.

J.S. Pill

Teamhar wrote: »

guts of 2 grand. Think it had an 8GB HDD but I could be wrong.

1 GB would have been impressive for that time nevermind 8.

My first was a gateway, 75mhz, 8mb RAM, 750mb HDD.

It was able to run Quake & Duke Nukem and that was all that mattered back then.

Firefox10

The first PC i ever used (not my first computer, that was my beloved ZX spectrum!) orignal IBM XT. Green screen monitor, 20MB HDD, 640Kb memory. and thing cost about three grand at the time!!

DigiJem

My first was a Amstrad 1512, with a 5.25" floppy disk only and a mono monitor.

Voodu Child

An Apple IIe ('83), green monitor, no HDD and a double floppy-drive that you had to pop down like a toaster after you put the disk in :pac:

Although im not even that old, I got it in the early 90s when it was already a relic

calex71

Amstrad 464k here, green screen and a tape drive , boy was i envious of my pals with the color screen

fuzzy12

Acorn electron. She was a beaut.

Auvers

1st Speccy 48k
2nd Speccy 128K with added tape drive
3rd Amiga (loved that machine)

1st PC

A Dell 486 33mhz with the added DX co-processor\ 20MB drive\2 MBs ram and the piece de residence a 2MB video accelerator

then got a I copy of Doom and then had the joy of making a boot disc to get the bloody thing working, oh the joys of DOS 6.0

mach1982

It was an AST 9100, back in 95/96 is it was top or range model 2gb HD p133, can't remember how much ram , we did get it upgraded to 10GB of disk space . I still have it but I have striped it down. It was still running up to 4 years ago , had Ubuntu install on 250GB, Brezy I think.

But our first computer was a Sinclair ZX Sprectrum still have it ,I think in the attic , then a C64 have that too, but on power supply .

mixer101

First PC was a no-brand 386SX/25, 2mb RAM, 20mb HDD, 14" vga monitor, Windows 3.11. Whole lot cost about IR£850 and that was getting it with a few quid discounted!
Really enjoyed it at the time and then over the next year or so followed the obligatory upgrade path....(not 100% sure, but went something like)....386DX33 cpu upgrade, then 386DX2/66, 486SX25, 486DX2/66, all of these cpus fitted the same MoBo I think? Then a Pentium MMX, PentiumII, PentiumIV etc.
I remember buying a 'humungously large' HDD that cost the best part of IR£300 - for a 240MB unit .. more space than you could ever use in those days! 4mb RAM would have cost about IR£200....:eek:

Long before that I got one of the original Sinclair ZX81 jobbies - that was fun, entering in hundreds of lines of code line by line copying from one of the magazines of the day, and then many hours of typing later to have the whole lot gone in the blink of an eye 'cos the 16k ram-pack on the back of the ZX wobbled ever so slightly .

Later, along came a couple of different Ataris.. Atari 400, Atari 800XL, Atari ST - lots of typing fun here too, but in colour!:)

Anyone remember a computer and components place called Moretec on the Naas Road near the Kylemore Rd junction??

cherryghost

god i feel young

1st PC was a Gateway, 800mhz P3, 64mb ram, 16mb voodoo card, 6gb HD.

so many memories of age of empires on it, and my first mp3 download on it too!

ednwireland

well the first computer i worked on was a research machines 380z (writing in machine code was fun !) bbc computers etc first one i owned was a work ibm 386sx25 ibm ps2 still have an mca network card for that somewhere and a proper ibm mouse