Your First PC

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axgrinder73

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I thought that it would be cool to dig up memories (or maybe nightmares) of your first PC based computer. Remember how fast it was:). How all of your friends were amazed by the speed of your 9600k modem.

So, lets hear all about it. The specs, price, first upgrades, etc.

I'll go first:

Packard Bell- 120mhz, 1GB hard drive, 16MB of RAM, 9600K modem, 16X cdrom drive, Windows 95. Would you believe that I bought this lightning fast machine for the amazing price of $1699. My friends were all in awe of the speed of this thing. :eek:

The first thing that I upgraded was the RAM. I added 32MB for a whopping total of 48MB. I later added a 36600K modem so I could connect to AOL via long distance. Thats right, the closest ISP phone number was 150 miles away.

Alright, lets keep this going, I want to hear about yours. Lets keep it PC based so everyone can compare.
 
Father's first work-only system: Forget the name, but it was 1986

Father's first 'really should be work only, but the fam can use it if you don't tell us (the bosses)' system: Toshiba Laptop; forget Mhz, but 200 MB HDD, Win 3.1, 5400 (whatever was just below 9600) modem, weighed about 14 pounds :)

My first system: HP Pavilion; 20 Gig HDD, 56k modem, Win 98SE (still one of my favs!) 256 MB RAM, Celeron...800 Mhz maybe?
 
My First System:
Asus mobo CUV4X-C
Pentium III 733MHZ
Geforce 4 MX-440 64mb
384mb SDRAM
2x20GB hardisk
15"inches CRT

I've finished doom 3 with it...:D served me well for 4-5years until last year when it finally met its eternal peace....:)
 
My first pc was a very old pentium model, talkin 1992ish, running windows 95. 64mb ram and a 13gig HDD it was pathetic, but man it ran some sweet word processor action...oh! and anyone ever play corridor 7? That game was the shizzy back in the day.
 
A Digital Equipment Corp Venturis FX 5133. 133MHz Pentium. 32MB RAM. 1.2GB HD. NEC CD-ROM. Crystal ISA soundcard. Intel/Ambient PCI modem (I used it in my present PC until April 2007 when I finally switched to DSL). 14in. DEC monitor. All running Win95c.
It's in my basement packed away. I upgraded it quite a bit, and it still works.
Tom
 
hmmm can't realy remeber ASUS mobo, p3 800mhz, 128mg ram, 20gb hard drive, think it was $1000 long long ago lloll 01 or 02
 
Celeron 466mhz, 96mb ram (for the day it was badass), 8gb hdd. Not sure what the rest is, but it lagged on unreal tournament, lol.
 
This is what I can remember:

It was an HP
P3 800mhz
Windows 98 Special Edition (LOVE IT!) :D
128mb RAM
9GB HDD

games that I could play properly were Counter Strike 1.5 and Diablo 2

EDIT: 56K modem! Dial-Up FTW!!!
 
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Can't remember my first PC much, but I know it ran Windows 3.1 and had two 1GB hdd. It also had a "turbo" button, lol.

Ten years from now we will be talking the same way about our current high end systems, maybe.
 
my first PC ? well it was the one in my sig a few months back

Intel Celeron D 2.8GHZ
1GB ddr2 ram
80GB XP/ 120GB osX x86 (back then)

but before that one i was using my bro's pc which was a P4 3.2ghz with a 200GB Disc with 512 ddr1 ram.
His older one was an AMD Duron (can't remember the speed) with 128mb sdr ram and 80GB, i still remember using windows ME on this one
 
OvenMaster said:
It's in my basement packed away. I upgraded it quite a bit, and it still works.
Tom
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Sweet! I wish I still had mine.

Motoxrdude said:
for the day it was badass, lol.
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Yea remember how cool everybody thought it was

p5n32 said:
lol yeah i can't believe we payed like $1000 more for PC's that are $10 now rofl
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No doubt! I could buy 6 or 7 nice rigs for what I paid for my first one

MatrixEVO said:
Ten years from now we will be talking the same way about our current high end systems, maybe.
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Yea, our kids will be talking about these dinosaurs we have now.

This is great guys/gals, keep it coming.:)
 
MatrixEVO said:
Can't remember my first PC much, but I know it ran Windows 3.1 and had two 1GB hdd. It also had a "turbo" button, lol.

Ten years from now we will be talking the same way about our current high end systems, maybe.
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i know we will how crazy are the PC's going to be omg!
 
p5n32 said:
i know we will how crazy are the PC's going to be omg!
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Technology doubles every two years, according to some guys law (lulz). Pretty much explains why every two years there is a revolution in the computing market; 64bit, multi core, etc.
 
my first computer , built on line cost-$800 in the year 2003

Specs-

Intel Pentium 4 s.478 2.8 Ghz
1 gb of ram
200 Gb Hdd
XFX 5200 256 MB video card
Some Mobo??????????:confused:
Cool White and Blue Lights

thast it i guess
 
First pc was a packard bell 486 dx2 55 mhz 500 Mbyte hard drive 8 megabytes of ram 4 initially. Bought at circuit city for a whopping 2600 dollars. Crazy hu?
 
I've had things like Amstrads previously but my first PC that was actually mine and not my dads at the time was an IBM

Most I can remember about it was


8086 4Mhz processor
640k base memory (that was it, amount of boot disks I had for games!)
60Mb HDD (thats not a type, thats megabyte not gigbyte)
onboard VGA graphics (which was quite special for the time, far in advance of the EGA standards)
Dos 5.0 OS (Windows? Pfffft, that'll never take off)
 
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Everyone on here is a baby :) I am feeling old.

To be completely technical, my first 'PC' was an 8088 based machine running at 4.77mhz with 256k of ram in the original config, upgraded to 512k. It had a floppy drive, later upgraded to 2 floppies. That was back when floppies actually were floppy.

Eventually could afford a 20meg HDD. Upgraded to a 8086 11mhz MB later on, and upwards from there. Those were the days when a real time clock and serial ports, etc were on a separate isa card :)
I ran dos, and maybe dr-dos on that box... It was a nice wordpro box and great for games of the era.

Not sure if I ran gem on the 8086 or on the 386. It was a long time ago. I remember struggling to get a 386 with 4meg ram to play doom...

Of course the first micro I actually owned was built and based on a z80 and had 8k ram as I remember, and 2k of that was video. I had 48k and 64k systems after that, with various rom basic or cp/m etc.

I had my first pentium 120 still running until recently. It had been a print server for many many years. Still had a 5 1/4 quantum bigfoot 2gig drive which had to have been the most reliable drive ever.
 
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