Your very 1st PC

Your very 1st PC

What was you very first PC (excluding Sinclairs, Amstrads, Commodores, etc) & what were it's specs, if you can remember them?

Mine was a 386DX40, 4Mb RAM, 120Mb HDD & HP Inkjet printer, back in 1995. I can't remember the brand but the shop was on Cambridge Tce, locally assembled. I think it cost close to $3,000 back then. Couple of years later I upgraded the memory to a whopping 8Mb & installed a sound card - WOW!!

I used a ZX81, but the first family machine was in about Apirl 1983.  Commodore 64, Commodore Monitor and Tape Drive.

It was a pretty early C64, later we added a printer and a Disk drive.

Commodore Vic 20 was the 1st!

Also had a Vic 20.

5KB of RAM ftw.

City BomberBest.Game.EVER!!!

Wongo you are a babe in the woods compared to some on here.

Why exclude these btw?

My first computer that I bought with my very own (tax payers) money was when I was at Uni - it was an apple - a cubic shape with a humungous padded carry bag. Junior822011-08-02 11:50:53

They're not real Pc's. Are they?

Mine had a 5.25" & a 3.5" floppy drives as well. Later, I also stuck in a 58k fax/modem to surf the net for $10/hour with Xtra!! I ditched Xtra pretty quickly & went with Actrix.

I did have a Commodore 64, which I consider as a gaming machine, before my first PC.

We had a BBC Acorn as our first family computer.

IBM JX with infra red keyboard wtf

The C64 was replaced by a Mac+ 

preceeed by one of these bad boys. Standard IBM PC (old man worked for IBM)http://www.thepcmuseum.com/ibm/IBMPC/default.htm

Acorn Archimedes 3010. RISC Operated, Just like the schools one. Piece of sh*t. Had to wait until 1997 when Ma and Pa "Upgraded" to a Packard Bell with  a 120mhz intel Pentium (pre MMX), 16meg ram (we later upgraded it to 48 megs of ram at a cost of $380), and Windows 95, about 5 weeks before Windows 98 was released. Then I could play Red Alert via the 33.6k modem (not included) with my friends and annoy my sister/parents for hogging the phone line.

This continued with the release of Age of Kings in 1999 to a point where my parents, sick of the complaints from my sister installed a 2nd phone line just for my 33.6k modem.

on a personal note, I really don't like the way this BBS software does hyperlinks.

But MY actual first computer was one I put together. After spending too much of my teenaged years pulling apart and putting back together Mum and Dad's Acorn and Packard Bell computers I felt confident enough and had enough money from working at the supermarket to buy parts for my own one. Cost $1500. Ugly case, Ugly Gigabyte board, 64meg graphics, Athlon XP 1800 processor, 20gig (or 40, can't remember) HD,128 5.1 Soundcard and speaker system and a huge...HUGE 19 inch monintor. Huge as in it was CRT and that thing just went back and back and back for miles. 56k modem for the first time in my life too (2001).

And Windows XP. It was flash as.

386? I would have thought for 1995 and the amount of money you spent you would at least have gotten a 486, probably should have been earlier pentium.

I can't remember much of our first computer, one of the first x86 chips probably - IBM compatible, so not Amiga/Commodore. Next was a Pentium 100, probably 1GB HDD, not sure on the RAM (maybe 64mb?) in '96.

The flat keyed ZX81 for the win. Even managed to programme in a butterfly game. Was always jealous of Vic 20 owners, bloody flash harry's. Then came the Commodore 64 which, with football manager, was so crazily futuristic it blew my mind. Some would say managing Spurs to Division 1 success was also a tad futuristic...

NEC Versa notebook.  128 mb ram.  20 gb hard drive.  $4,500.  Lasted 18 months before it exploded.  Noel f**king Lemons.

Wow. I completely forgot about this. In 2001 I wrote off my newly imported car. The insurance company grizzled and smelt fraud at the length I had the car vs. the insured value of the car. Eventually they paid out enough for me to buy a cheaper car and this NEC Versa Notebook.

I remember it being a laptop with a DVD read only drive, and that I could watch DVDs in bed and how amazing that was. I even got a 1x and 2x external USB CD writer to go with it.

But mine lasted about the same, maybe a bit less. As soon as I moved to Wellington to not go to university the screen died. Luckily I was young and stupid in those days and was up sold a 5 year extended warrantee (bumped up the price to about $5,500 total) so I took it into Noel Leeming on Tory Street. As it was bought in Hastings they initially wanted nothing to do with it, then they did. It took 2 months to fix (during which time I built the machine previously mentioned) as they said they had to send it back to Korea for some reason.

Complete Lemon. When it came back I sold it to a mate for $2.5g. Had Windows ME on it. Worst computer ever. No wonder I made sure to forget about it.

e. I still have that CD writer. 35 minute burn oh yeah.mikecj2011-08-02 17:49:47

Sorry, I have correct the HDD capacity on my first PC, it was a staggering 20Mb not 120Mb. My second PC had 120Mb, it was from the PC Company on Wakefield St (now Atech); I can't remember the specs but I think it was a Pentium III.

386SX. 2x CD-ROM drive, 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives, Windows 3.1 installed but DOS used for pretty much everything. Later upgraded to a 486, later downgraded to a paperweight.

The first one I had was an Intel 486 running Win 3.1 but upgraded to Win95, 500MB Harddrive, it may have had a PCI video card but can't remember. First one I paid for was an AMD Athlon 1.6Ghz, 256MB RAM, running Windows 2000. Purchased an nVidia Geforce MX 4000 128MB (which sadly I'm still using today thanks to my newer 6200 card dying last year) and put WinXP on it. It was awesome, had Total Club Manager 2005 on it. I still have it in the hallway cupboard but the power supply on it is buggered.

Ahh memories..

i loved having to alter the autoexec and command.cfg for every different game i wanted to run to get the most out of my pitiful amount of ram.

 

Boulder Dash was another classic

River Raid I liked as a small 80's child.

I had, hmm, you won't have heard of this, a Dick Smith VZ200.
Had only 8Kb RAM or so. Loading games on cassette and all that. Friends had the ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64.
Later we got an Amiga 500 which was a damn good machine.