[RESOLVED] Remember your 1st P.C.?

[Angks]

Hi all. How many of you guys/girls out there remember your 1st P.C?

Mine was as follows;

Intel 486SX 25MHz
A Trident SVGA card with 1MB memory
4MB RAM
170MB HD
1.44MB Floppy drive.
14" Monitor
Sound Blaster sound card. (The one before the Pro version)
A pair or SB speakers.
A joystick.
DOS 6 and Windows 3.1
Plus some crappy software..

All these cost me a whopping £1089 way back in 1992!

[AlienDyne]

AMD 386DX - 40Mhz
4MB Memory
Seagate 150GB HDD
3.5'' Floppy Drive
5.25'' Floppy Drive
1MB VGA Card
Multi I/O Controller Card
Shamrock 14'' Color Monitor
Mini AT Case

[Ruslan]

My first own IBM PC (1991 year)
"Mitron 286" as follows:
286 16MHz
Baby-AT case
OAK ISA SVGA 256k videocard
1 MB RAM (4x256k 30-pin SIMM)
ISA Multi I/O card
50MB Microscience IDE HDD
3,5" 1.44MB and 5,25" 1,2Mb Floppy drives
14" Color Multi-VGA (First name of SVGA )Monitor
Citizen MSP15 A3 matrix 9-pin printer

But my really very first computer was Intel 8080 CPU based PC,soldered by myself (with 32Kb of RAM and monochrome TV as monitor )in 1986...
Then was...about 400 ZX-Spectrum 48/128/256-compatible PCs...also soldered by myself for friends and... And so on....

[Platypus]

First PC (as in IBM compatable):
8088 by Commodore - 9.4 MHz in turbo
640K memory
20M hard drive (WD stepper)
5.25 360K floppy drive
12" amber monitor - Hercules video
DOS 3.3

First computer:

2 MHz Z80 runing CP/M 2.2 - Sharp, 64K memory
Built-in cassette storage, later external floppy drive
Modified 14" CTV as monitor

Sigh, such a short time ago....

[ShadowWynd]

NEC Multispeed Laptop

638K RAM
9.36 Mhz in Turbo
2 3.5 Low Density Drives, No HD
CGA Emulator
1200 bps Modem
Dos 3.3

[gpint]

my first PC was an IBM PC Jr.
8088 Processor - not sure of the clock speed
came with 128K of RAM - later upgraded to 640K
No HD
5.25" floppy
some sort of basic cartride system
DOS 3.3

[Snommis69]

First ever was a Commodore VIC-20 (does that even count?)

PC type was an IBM Aptiva DX2/66, 4MB RAM, SB16. BTW, I still have it and yes, it runs.
(This is the first system I ever bought, like in a package)

[furlong47]

Geez, I feel so young!!
486 DX2/66
16 Megs RAM (later upgraded to 24)
WD 540 Meg HDD (later upgraded to Seagate 1.2 Gig)
monospeed CD-ROM (later upgraded to 4x, then 52x)
Soundblaster 16
14" monitor
some kind of tape drive, I don't remember anymore

later in its life it also got:
a 28.8 Sportster modem
a ZIP100 (now pulled and in my current computer)
a 3com NIC

This computer was THE BOMB when I got it 7 or 8 years ago. And I used it up until last July.

[SubZero]

My first ever was a Laser 128 - An Apple IIe clone.

My first PC was an IBM PS/2 Model 50. 286 w/ 20MB hard drive 3MB ram, Win 3.1. Still runs to this day! I just had it out this weekend. It has a dead CMOS battery - it doesn't keep time.

[rscos]

a *cough* Packard Bell 486sx 25 with 4mb RAM and 250Mb HDD - a cirrus logic 5xxx series card (onboard) with 512k vram and a floppy drive.
I later added a DX4 75 overdrive, another 4mb RAM and a CDROM + sb16. a whole 152 of monitor too. It's still running as wel, I use i to play pinball fantasies and Commander keen!

[theBeast]

Hmm...
Well, we FIRST started off with an Atari 400. Then we upgraded to an Atari 600XL. Then, an Atari XE.
Then, our first PC was:
386DX/33
4 MB RAM
105 MB Hard Drive
3.5" and 5.25" Floppy
1 MB Trident Video
14" Monitor
2400baud modem (remember the days when baud and bps were synonomous?)
Then we splurged and got a SoundBlaster 16.

Then, I upgraded it to:
486DX2/66
8 MB RAM
added a 150MB hard drive
2X CD-ROM

Then, I upgraded it to:
Pentium 75
1 gig hard drive
8X CD-ROM
15" Monitor

Then, I upgraded to:
Pentium 166MMX
32 megs RAM
DVD-ROM

Then...
Pentium II 400
128 MB RAM

[Triumph]

Owned a VIC 20 back in 1983 then a C-64 the nin 1995 bought a 486 DX/33 with 8 meg of Ram and went from there to my Toshiba Satellite Laptop

[shadow1]

Texas instruments,then commodore vic, trash 80(trs-80)

[LPetrarca]

The first one I purchased:

CompuAdd 286/12
20Mb HD
2Mb RAM
Monochrome amber monitor
Hercules graphic card.

DA BOMB! (at the time)

[exholt]

Hello,

First computer I got(a Christmas gift) was the following:

CPU: 386sx/16
RAM: 2 megs (Has room for 8 megs total (4 megs 18 pin DIP, 4 megs 30 pin SIP(Not SIMMS))

HDD: 81 meg WD Caviar

1 meg Cirrus Logic Vga card

2400 internal modem (Got it free off someone)

1 5.25" Floppy and 1 3.5" floppy drives

14" Comdex Vga monitor.


The first PC I actually bought:

A Toshiba Tecra 530CDT

P166MMX
48 megs RAM
2.2 gig HDD
2 or 4 meg integrated Video (not sure)
integrated sound & speakers
33.6 internal built-in modem
12.1" TFT Active matrix screen.

Still use the 386 occasionally...the laptop is still used whenever I need to use a computer in a library or to do support on a friend's machine (need a machine to download drivers and to look up sites like windrivers).