what was your first pc

I have no idea about what my first PC actually was but it ran windows 3.1 and mostly i used it for dos based games (like cosmo's cosmic adventure, commander keen 3, asteroids, overkill and duke nukem) also i liked to play in the "file manager" and change settings hehe..
I think it had a 14" really bad cream CRT, 8mb of ram and the keyboard was built into the computer itself! it was wierd but cool.
 
Umm it was really big at the sides, it was a cream color that looked like cigarette smoke stained but thats actually how it was new, the screen curved in heaps and it was really deep.. lol.. it was bad. Cant picture a 50's TV tho so i guess??
 
my first PC was
Clereon 333mhz
32 mb RAM
Trio3d2x 4mb S3
6.4 HDD Segate
creative 48x CDrom
some ISA soundcard
Viewsonic CRT 14inch.... E40 (I think)
i dont remember the Mobo model :D i was not an expert back on 99 but i still have the stuff in the closet i make experiments on it lol
but that's pretty much it
 
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ahh, the good old days when i thought it was amazing:
Packard Bell
p3 450mhz
64mb ram
dvd-rom - this was cutting edge technology at the time i think :O
8mb voodoo 3 graphics
a floppy drive
a case that was (and is) basdically empty
145 watt psu
15inch CRT
very, very loud speakers
windows 98se, then xp, then 2000, then me(for a very short period of time), then a linux live cd, then 2000, then xp, then 95 and finally back to 98se

Still used today by my brother, pretty reliable aslwell considering it's age, and the only thing i have replaced is the dvd-rom with a cd-rom drive, because it broke and i was too tight to stretch to a dvd-rom ;)
 
I bought a Gateway Essentials in 1999. It had a Plll 550mhz and 128mb of SDRAM. It had an nvidia 32mb video card. Soundblaster Live! And a US Robotics modem.

Only cost me $3000 :mad:

I put more ram in it, and eventually got it up to 384mb of SDRAM, but that was all Win 98SE could handle.

I finally put this computer together thats in my signature. It was my first build. I did it for about $1000. 20 times more computer than the Gateway for 1/3 the price. :rolleyes:

I'll never buy an off the shelf computer again. What a waste of money.
 
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the regulars will note that this is not my joke
 
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oh god, how many times is that gonna come back, lol

as for me, MY first PC was an AMD K6-2 500Mhz / 32Mb RAM / 6Gb HDD / CD-ROM / I still have that PC now, its sitting next to me as my email box, others might remeber its the one with the sweet-ass window mod

my families forst PC, jesus, i remeber it but at the time i knew nothing about PC's, it was the screen, base and keyboard all moulded together, it was massive and was a horrid yellow/beige colour. I know it ran DOS, thats all.

dragon
 
An old Amstrad, with an Intel 8086, 8Mhz, 512K RAM, no HDD, 16 colour screen.

After that, a new Cyrix 686/100Mhz and Windows 95 seemed unbeatable!
 
Pentium II 266mhz
32mb ram
a massive 1mb Trio card
15inch crt (still have it, its bigger than most 17in, lol)
then i got an eMachines W26**, i just remember the first 2 numbers, it had my Athlon XP 2600 in it and l512mb ram...we bought a Radeon 9500 but it died awhile ago.....
 
i remember my dad spent like 3000 on a crazy ibm in 1997 back then we only had 12mb video cards and we thought that u wouldnt get any faster than 500mghz cause it was neadles funny times our comp was a beast back then we only had like 512mb ram to i twas insane we played all games on max those games are played on like ds or psp now lol tom clancys raimbow 6
 
its funny because gameboy colors are more powerfull than most of the things uve said i remember when gameboy advanced came out it had like 148 colors i was so exited
 
@ apj101
isn't that called Abacus ? that was the 1st computer ever
that's something i picked up in A+ certification
 
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