Other Lol at my first PC specs - found invoice today!

First computer was an Atari STFM with 1/2 MB of RAM. First proper PC was a 486 SX 33 with 4 MB RAM. That had to be upgraded to a DX 66 in order to play Worms, .

 

Mine was a Amiga can't remember which model, then a C64 and then it was a 386 followed by a 486.

 

I miss my Amiga. It was a A4000 with a Cyberstorm '060 in it. For it's time, it was awesome. It had a MASSIVE 16MB of RAM, and (drum roll)... a CD ROM DRIVE! For it's time, it blew any PC into the weeds.

 

First computer I built was a kit computer in the 70's. I have no idea any more what it was but it was nothing like what we call a computer now. All switches and LEDs with no TV out.

 

Heathkit H8? Altair 8800?

 

It was something out of a hobby electronics magazine. I've done too many drugs since then to remember any details

 

First home pc was a Tiny Celeron jobby, onboard graphics, cd Rom/floppy 8gb HDD. It was a peice of crap but oh well.

 

i had the same!

God, Yeager ate up so much of my time!

 

DAYMN! YOU WAS ROLLIN IN IT BRO! Proper Pentium and a Tyan board!

At 14 I got as far as:

Cyrix PR200 (OCd to 233)
32MB DIMM 66MHz
PC Chips socket 7 motherboard
24x CDROM
6.4GB Quantum Bigfoot (5.25" 2,500RPM)
Diamond Stealth SII 220 4MB
Voodoo 1 4MB
Some 15" POS monitor

First proper games I played was Resident Evil series and anything Bullfrog made.

Cost me nearly 800 quid from 2 years saved paper round money.

 

...Cyrix, now that brings back memories. My first PC was a 486DX (did have a BBCB prior to that with a tape drive for some Elite), but I was too young to know anything about it beyond the fact that it played X-Wing and Commander Keen - I did have to learn some DOS commands though, and how to reconfigure memory. The first one I knew anything about was:

Cyrix P166 (running at 133Mhz)
16MB DIMM, later upgraded to 48MB
12GB HD
ATi 3D Rage
24x CD-ROM
17" CRT

I mainly remember Cyrix trying to claim that their P166 was the equivalent to a Pentium 166, despite running at 133, and it was a total lie!

 

Great thread

I was kinda of a late to start i thinks ... apart from the Spectrum +2 i had in 1987 ....
True gamer your just a showoff with that +3 mate!!!

2002 I was given a Pentium 2 333Mhz, 1x 2gb hard drive and x1 1gb, 64mb ram and a Riva 16mb graphics.

My first upgrade was another 64mb of RAM and bought a seconds hand 32mb TNT from a guy at work. My Quake 3 was now silky smooth @ 1024x768

 

I remember our first ever computer being an Evesham back in 93/94 - my dad actually bought it from their store in Evesham. I was only 4 or 5 at the time, so the specs are a little hazy:

Intel 486DX2 66Mhz
4MB RAM
~250MB hard drive
14 inch SVGA monitor
14.4k Modem
Windows 3.1

and it came with an HP 4L laser printer (yes, the one with the "PC LOAD LETTER" error message!). Fancy stuff!

 

The first PC we had was a 286 with 2mb of RAM and a 40MB HDD. I got given 2MB of RAM for my birthday so I could upgrade it to play Syndicate.

lol's! That is pretty similar to the first PC I ever built myself but it had a chaintech motherboard and the original Nvidia RivaTnT with 16mb of RAM.

 

Much the same, 200 Mhz Intel MMX processor, 32MB RAM and a horrendous S3 Virge graphics processor which struggled with just about every game I tried to play! My first computer however was a ZX Spectrum 48k complete with rubber keys and a separate cassette deck...until I upgraded to the 128k which had the cassette deck built in.

 

Crikey, your all making me feel young, My first PC was a 400mhz Celeron.

Sam

 

The first game console I touched was an Atari 2600. I learned BASIC on a VIC20 and CBM/PAT 4096. My first computer was a C64 (heavily modded over time), Amiga 500, then Amiga 2000; my first PC an Intel P90.

Absolutely. "Quake is Good for You"!

 

1984 - Acorn Electron

acquired a ZX81 + 1k memory expansion a few years later

1993 - Amiga A1200 (I shoehorned a 120mb 3.5" drive in this and could not fill it)

1996 - first PC, weighing in at £1700
Cyrix P150+ (later upgraded to a proper intel)
Matrox Millennium 2+2mb
3dfx voodoo 1
SB AWE32
I think it had 512mb ram and 20gb HDD (possibly this was later on after various upgrades)

edit: I also got ISDN installed after I got my first job and was one of the original LPBs in quake >

2012 -
i7 870
GTX 460 ti 448
4gb / 128gb SSD + 1tb HDD

 

My first pc was an Amstrad PC1512

pic courtesy of wikipedia


I used to spend hours playing Test Drive 2: The Duel and Bruce Lee.

Then I had an Amiga 1200, a Viglen 486, a succession of Dells until I was old enough to start building them myself.

 

You had half a gig of ram in your first rig

That would have cost a **** load back then.

 

I remember my dad got from work one of the first laptops that came with windows 95. It was our first computer at home and i fell in love with it. I dont know any of the details of it, but i can tell you the battery weighed as much as a decent sized book and lasted long enough to complete a whole game of minesweeper. Impressive.