Your First PC

[zaroba]

wow, most of you had fast first PCs (and i use the term 'fast' loosely )

my first pc was an IBM PS/2:
cpu: 12MHz 80386dx (i think it was)
HD: 24MB
Ram: 4MB
56k Modem: 9600kbps
OS: win 3.1

cost around 2 grand at the time.
after a while i saved up my money and bought an 8mb stick of ram to add to it, which cost more then 50 dollars.
still had to use a boot disk to play simcity 2000. and Descent ran better with a boot disk as well.

ahh the memories.
I remember in school me and other people with these 'top of the line' PCs would dream about the future where we would have GB hard drives and GB ram. we'd get all excited over the thought of it. wondering what the heck we could do with all that storage and memory, thinking there wouldn't be any use for such an insane amount of it.

now, 1gb ram is pretty much useless when it comes to high end gaming. and a 1gb hard drive? lol
theres TB drives out now, and its easy to get a TB from a few smaller drives.

10 years from now? we'll probably have ram going by hundreds of GB like how it was going by hundreds of MB a few years ago. we'll probably have hard drives that go by hundreds of TB like how they go by hundreds of GB now.

 

[pc-tech]

my first pc just went to the scrap yard yesterday
lol

 

[jimkonow]

well....
Windows 3.1
IBM (i think...)
Pentium 1 166 MHz
16mb RAM
512MB HDD (or somethin like that)


that was a sexy gaming machine when Solitare was the shizzle.
remember when you won at the end, the cards would all come off the deck and leave the white trails where they were?
my PC didnt lag at all when that happened....i felt so 1337

 

[Ramodkk]

I like posts like this, diggin' up memory!

First family computer that I remember specs 100% is

Intel Celeron 600MHz (slow FTW! lol)
64MB Ram
8GB Ram
Windows 98

But I can remember my dad talking about having some kind of Intel 286 with like 16MB Ram and 40MB of HD or something...

And the first computer that I owned and bought (for $350) was

Sempron 3200+ 1.8GHz
512MB Ram
HD 120GB
Win XP
Integrated nVidia 6150

 

[tremmor]

naaaa......i got ya all beat.

sol terminal and digital group pdp11. 8080 microprocessor.
the pdp11 was a heathkit. you bought the components and
soldered everything on it. all parts, ram, cpu and caps.
16k of memory, phosphate monitor, hd and printer was
out the question. $4000.00.

trs80 z80 cpu 4meg clock, 4k of memory. black screen with no hd.
cassette interface but updated to exatron stringy floppy.
all parts were soldered when trs80 came out and was marketed
to cater to the general public. (radio shack). $1200.

windows wasn't invented yet. started with msdos4.
i don't think the dos based windows came out until about
6yrs later. windows 3.1.

Dos before i got on. this started with the computers above.
of course that leads to another subject.
Gates.......microsoft.
Ibm was in trouble. no support for CPM?. (correct me if ya know) i think this was correct.
thats when bill gates stepped in.
everything was dos based for yrs.
its also when Symantec (Norton) came into the
picture with dos. Remember dos / undelete?
that was norton and a few of the commands are still in use today.

A lot i forgot but still have and saved many books.
this happened 40 yrs ago and never stopped.
im 60ish now. sorry......talk to much


pentium1 and 2.
never 3
have 3 pentium 4's. all intel now. works for me.
800 msb and still using 2.5gig processor.
building one more before i retire.

 

[oscaryu1]

Me first system:

Compusa Desktop:

(Lol, specs were on bottom of case... and I still have it)

16x CD Drive (it ate up a disk and i made it end it's life )
Floppy Drive (i dunno)
3.2GB WDC HDD (either in the trash or one of my other computers... probably in the dead bin)
166MHz Intel Pentium (orig one still in there)
16MB EDO (Got that too i think...)
Win 95 (Got the disk and COA somewhere)
Powerman 250w (Dang man, still in that case and working)

 

[oscaryu1]

naaaa......i got ya all beat.

sol terminal and digital group pdp11. 8080 microprocessor.
the pdp11 was a heathkit. you bought the components and
soldered everything on it. all parts, ram, cpu and caps.
16k of memory, phosphate monitor, hd and printer was
out the question. $4000.00.

trs80 z80 cpu 4meg clock, 4k of memory. black screen with no hd.
cassette interface but updated to exatron stringy floppy.
all parts were soldered when trs80 came out and was marketed
to cater to the general public. (radio shack). $1200.

windows wasn't invented yet. started with msdos4.
i don't think the dos based windows came out until about
6yrs later. windows 3.1.

Dos before i got on. this started with the computers above.
of course that leads to another subject.
Gates.......microsoft.
Ibm was in trouble. no support for CPM?. (correct me if ya know) i think this was correct.
thats when bill gates stepped in.
everything was dos based for yrs.
its also when Symantec (Norton) came into the
picture with dos. Remember dos / undelete?
that was norton and a few of the commands are still in use today.

A lot i forgot but still have and saved many books.
this happened 40 yrs ago and never stopped.
im 60ish now. sorry......talk to much


pentium1 and 2.
never 3
have 3 pentium 4's. all intel now. works for me.
800 msb and still using 2.5gig processor.
building one more before i retire.

Dang! How was 3.1?

Hmm... do you have a account on Hobbytalk?

 

[zaroba]

windows wasn't invented yet. started with msdos4.
i don't think the dos based windows came out until about
6yrs later. windows 3.1

wha? 3.1 wasn't the first windows.

the first dos based windows was Windows 1.00 released in 1985 for MSDos 2.
3.1 didn't come out until 1993

 

[daisymtc]

Can't remember. Something like 386 with Dos/ Windows 3.0...

 

[tremmor]

i sure there was a ver 1. not disputed. mine was 3.1.
i also had a 286 and 486. and one more.
a commadore Amiga. that was my 1st color with graphics.
was nice though.

Anybody remember before the internet?
I was doing many bulletion boards. thats what was
available. 14k, 28k and 56k baud.