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[Sniprwulf]

Parents bought it from radioshack: Packard Bell:

Intel Pentium 60mhz processor (opened it up and only found a heatsink on it lol)
2mb Ram
127mb Hard Drive
2x cd drive
windows 3.1

cost: i think around 2 grand back in the early 90's

[Lost]

Free from my Uncle when he upgraded:

286 sx 20
1 mb Ram (lol DIMMS)
40 MB 5 1/4" HD that sounded like it was scratching the data onto the disk
3 1/2 " floppy drive
5 1/4" floppy drive
512k Trident video card 8-bit
MS-Dos 5.22 I think (does it really matter, it was oooooooold)

First new one we bought after I did some upgrades to the 286 (386 DX/40 4MB and then 486 DX2/66 16MB) over a few years:
Pentium 166
8 Megs Ram
1MB Diamond Video card
4x CD-Rom
2 GB Hard drive
Win 95a (oh yes, the bad one)

Edited by Lost, 01 May 2006 - 11:19 AM.

[DarkShadow]

Pentium 2 450 MHz
128 MB ram
10 GB HD

[Ezekiel]

First computer I had? Or my family had?

If it's family, then an old gateway with something like....
255mhz
32 mb RAM
4 GB hard drive
Windows 95

[ghozy]

c64

[NC Derek]

in 1996, for 2000 bucks.

gateway 2000
1/4 a gig of ram
intel pentium 2 1.1?
no sound card or video
12 inch monitor that sucked
6 gig harddrive

lasted 3 years with games like monopoly and myst, never had interent on it

broke after being struck by lighting

Edited by NC Derek, 01 May 2006 - 12:55 PM.

[ShLoNkY]

486 dxII 50mhz 4mb ram (later upgraded to 8 for $250) soundcard, 2x cd rom 540mb HDD.

My family got this when the dxII 66 mhz machine was the fastest you could get. Price= $2200.

Bypass Windows 3.11, and run from DOS; she would play Doom II ALL DAY. haha!

First machine I built was a 1 Ghz Athlon.......

Edited by ShLoNkY, 01 May 2006 - 01:06 PM.

[Lost]

Does a Vic 20 really count as a computer? I had one of them too.. and a C64 later on

[Frag0holic]

hehe I had several macs (I know, OFF WITH HIS HEAD!), before I got any PC. I don't remember much about them, except when I upgraded from 14.4kbit to 28.8kbit (It feels so fast!).. First PC I had was something like this;
Pentium 133 MHz
32 (later upgraded to 64) megs of ram
1.2 gig HD (no clue what brand or rpm, but it was loud)
1meg software rendering video card.(not sure on this one)
Windows 3.11, later Win 95
and a 14" screen.

The amazing thing is, I still have this comp in a closet somewhere in Sweden. And it STILL runs! That HD is so sturdy, it's over 7 years old, and still churning

[pusadolfo]

Wanna laugh for a while and call me dinosaur this is my first computer:

Macintosh 128k

CPU

CPU: Motorola MC68000

CPU Speed: 8 MHz

FPU: none

Bus Speed: 8 MHz

Data Path: 16 bit

ROM: 64 kB

Onboard RAM: 128 kB

Maximum RAM: 128 kB

Video

Monitor: 9" built-in

VRAM: 1 bit 512x342

Storage

Floppy Drive: 3.5" 400 kB

Input/Output

Serial: 2

Audio Out: mono 8 bit

Speaker: mono

[Novahawk]

Well the first computer i remeber having (not my personal but w.e) was a Specter II.. dang that thing is older then like most people here.. it had one of those cassette players.. liek you could use cassettes to store data... man.. that thing was old...

[Yatzee_Squirrel]

had some kind of IBM (i think) the screen was green and black and that is about all i remember about it

[ghozy]

Does a Vic 20 really count as a computer? I had one of them too.. and a C64 later on

VIC 20 never made it to Turkey my friend got a C16 though.

Well the first computer i remeber having (not my personal but w.e) was a Specter II.. dang that thing is older then like most people here.. it had one of those cassette players.. liek you could use cassettes to store data... man.. that thing was old...

do you mean sinclair spectrum? another friend had that thing. my friend didn't have any games, but had magazines that publishing games in BASIC. They also didn't know how to save games, or save BASIC programs, so they had to type whole game each time they wanted to play. hehehe. sad.

[Novahawk]

VIC 20 never made it to Turkey my friend got a C16 though.
do you mean sinclair spectrum? another friend had that thing. my friend didn't have any games, but had magazines that publishing games in BASIC. They also didn't know how to save games, or save BASIC programs, so they had to type whole game each time they wanted to play. hehehe. sad.

hehe

[Constantine]

c64 also......my god what a piece of crapola that was.....no worries, we upgraded to c128...haha

[J.Pizzack]

NEC
Intel Pentium 75mhz
32mb ram
500mb HD
2x CD-rom
floppydrive
windows 95 ran on it, and it could handle starcraft when it first came out!

[kid_latigo]

dunno the model, but it was a black and white apple
then my first pc was a 400mhz celeron, 128ram, 32mb video, 7gb hd

[tjhooker]

First PC I built was in umm 1996-7 AMD k6 400 mhz 128 mb 10gb hd 2-4mb graphics card and a 4x cd rom(it mattered In those days) .. I think it had a 266 watt psu.. and it was in the standard beige computer case. It basically roxed...

[Stoned Hatter]

my first computer was a packerd bell had a 64 mg ram setup 10 gig harddrive 32 max cd rom drive and it bearly played the first doom games, but before that i had a apple 2 e that the school gave me it sucked even more than the packerd bell never took them apart wasn't alowed to lol

Edited by logan412, 02 May 2006 - 10:40 AM.

[Alpine]

Well my dad went through about 3 or 4 computers in the early 90s but "my" first computer was a

Compaq
266 Cyrix
64mb ram
2mb on board video
4 gig HDD
15" compaq monitor
piece of sh*t modem

bought it at office max for $500 I played Ultima Online and Tribes with this.

Edited by Alpine, 02 May 2006 - 11:17 AM.