So, what was the spec of your first ever "proper" computer. If your first computer wasn't technically a computer tell any ways: My first computer of any sort was a word processor about the size of an electric organ. I got a laptop i don't remember the spec of shortly after that. My first "proper" PC was a pre-built one from Planet micro: 1.9ghz AMD Athlon XP 512 DDR 333mhz On-board GFX (Later an ATI 9600 128mb then an ATI 9600 XT 256mb after i blew the first one) 120gig Maxtor IDE HD 320gig western digital IDE HD Sampo 17" CRT and a bunch of other generic components. I still have the old girl setup with a fresh copy of win7 which serves her quite well! Plan to pop her in to a new case with a little bit more Ram and a new HD.
Well my first PC was a Cyrix M3 333mhz (could have been the M2 but I couldn't really care less), 128mb Ram, onboard VGA and Sound. That lasted about 3 months before I through it out the window. Now my first "proper" PC, after a load of hardware changes, is my current Athlon XP in my sig.
The first computer we had was I think a C64. I'm not sure, though. Something that used tapes anyway. The first 'real' PC I touched was a Windows 3.x box in 1992-1993. The next one was a Fujitsu with a whopping 800MB hard drive in 1995, I think. Man, MS Paint occupied us for hours. I remember my dad saying to someone who worked in my parents' shop that "they [us kids] really loved that eraser thing". My parents bought it off a guy who worked in IT. It cost so much back then - but I can't remember the price. It was either 20,000 or 40,000 frank. God, they were only barely thinking about a unified monetary unit back then! My mother took a self-study computer course somewhere in the first half of this decade. My dad followed (I think) this year or last year (finally... after some 16 years of seeing the things in his house). We only have sporadic contact so my brain pushes their info to the side. My first non-shared PC was a massive 633MHz, IIRC. I remember still using it when a friend's brother had a PDA with a faster processor than my PC... That's aeons ago, now. Time flies. Too bad my memory's so hazy. It'd be fun to remember properly what we used it for - I do remember some excitement, though - especially with the Fujitsu. I think that's the last time all members of our family (parents & kids) were in the same room at the same time. The cables weren't even colour-coded then (IIRC), I don't know how the hell they ever got it set up! Thanks for making me feel old whilst still young, dude
'MY' first real pc was an old AMD K6-266 with a whopping 128mb of PC100 SDRAM! i can still remember getting the 'upgrade' from an S3 graphics card to a voodoo 3 3000! although before that we had a sinclair, and also an amstrad casette based computer which i cant remember the name of, and of course, 'paper boy'! went from the amstrad to an amstrad 386DX 'laptop' if you can call it that! it was a 'BEAST' of a computer! then onto celeron 1000, then amd athlons, then athlon 64's, then C2D's and moved onto lappy's now!
First PC I used on a regular basis wasn't mine. but I used it all the time. Tandon 386/20 8Mhz / 20Mhz CPU 13Mb HDD Floppy drive *some* RAM DOS Windows 3.1....I think.. It was so knackered - it was can old one from my Dad's work I think. Motherboard battery was shot, but at the age of 10 I was manually putting all the BIOS settings in, just to use it. As for my own PC, if had the awesome below spec: AMD 5x86 Processor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am5x86) 64Mb RAM 2GB HDD Windows 95 (Brought with 3.11)
No way, snap. I got mine in about 1997/8 and it cost me over £1000 with a 17" CRT. Saved up for months to get that Voodoo card just so I could play Carmageddon 2 in 3Dfx. Later that year I swapped my £200 mountain bike for a 20GB HDD. God what can happen in 11 yr!!
Pentium 4 1.5 Ghz Socket 478 256 MB DDR Geforce 4 MX 440 60 gigs IDE HDD. What can i say, i'm not as old as some of you guys. It was the best thing you could buy at the time.
If it makes you feel any better, the computer I'm using now has a 1.6GHz processor. Nothing to do with age, I'm just really cheap and as long as it doesn't burst into flames I'm not buying new hardware
The one that was mine, and not my familys was this: Amd Thunderbird 1400+ 256mb ddr ram 80gb hard drive Gigabyte motherboard Ati Rage Pro 128mb Then I tried overclocking and fried the board and processor. I do remember messing with an older Pentium 2.
The first PC I owned was the one I got from my dad: P3 450 MHz 384 MB TNT 16 MB graphics.. Dunno what the actual model was. 40 GB(?) The first one I bought was Duron 1600 MHz 768 MB SDRAM 160 GB Radeon 9200 Nexus 350 W PSU (which was the only even half-decent part of the build)
I got given a few PC's by my brother who's work was bining them. 1xP60 2xP90 1xP120 I think they had ISA and EDO. kinda odd that the gift of junk changed my life. Got PC's > Played with PC's > Lost job > Got offered IT course > Got basic Qualification > got offered a "work experience" placement > Got offered a 20K job. Would never have though Of working with PC's, just the randomness of it all is quite cool. With out the job I'd not have been able to afford to have kids and lots of other things. Thats karma for you. I seem to be in the right place at the right time to get what I need. never lucky enough to win a lottery or anything, dont get much luck if it "self intrest" but, I get what I need to be happy. And I'd rather have that and be happy TBH.
first computer, zx81 with 16k ram pack first real computer, amiga A500 first ibm compatible pc, Escom 486 DX4/100, 8Mb ram, AWE32 soundcard (with 4Mb ram), cant remember the gfx card, VESA job. Still have an AST P120 sitting in the garage, I'm sure it still works.
Amiga Commodore 600 aside (I used that to play games... my stepdad gave it to me. And a Spektrum 128k, which I haven't dared use in case it eats the tapes...), my 'first computer' was a hand-me-down from my Dad's office. Duron 800Mhz (possible to Oc to 1.06Ghz on BIOS, if only I had 133Mhz RAM instead of the 100Mhz stuff!) 256MB 100Mhz SDRAM. A 128MB stick was about £20 when we upgraded to XP in 2004... and XP didn't like the old 128MB alone. A Samsung IDE 80GB HDD, when the Quantum Fireball 8GB decided to start making the clicky sounds of death. And a 15" CRT which I still have in my room, taking up space. I'm thinking of taking a jigsaw to a desk when I get my next computer and hiding the CRT in a box, underneath the surface of the desk, with a nice piece of glass to cover it.It still works fine, and waste not, want not! Does anyone else miss pressing 'degauss' and watching the mini-rave that happened on screen?
haha I'm glad I've caused a bit of a nostalgic look back here, nice to see people who actually know computers existed before 98 and that there was actually something BEFORE the windows 98os...still cracks me up that people don't realise this stuff. And i used to spend the first part of every IT lesson in highschool running around pressing the degauss button. I actually remember asking where the degauss button was when i saw my first flat screen to the continuing amusement of my mates. I'd completely forgotten about the ZX spectrum of my brothers i used to play with. That thing was mystifying.
first computer was an atari 520STfm first real pc was a Vtech 486dx2, onboard 2mb video, onboad sound, 405mb hdd, 2x cd-rom with 4mb of ram. windows 3.1 and dos
I suppose it all started when I got my beloved Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16K. You know how it is, you take it apart to see how it works and then put it back together and, hay-ho, you're hooked. I think I was about 10 when I got the Specky so I started to program a little in basic and then moved on to machine language. Didn't get too far with that because soon after(I can't remember when though), a very good friend of my mum and dad who was a top salesman for IBM, brought an IBM Vector when he visited us. Now, compared to the Specky, that thing was awesome so I knew what I was aiming for when I was older and had the dough. I slowly worked my way up the ranks with the 48k Specky, then the 128k+(at last, real (in)key$), the 128k+2, the 128k+3, a Commodore +4, the commodore 64 and the Commodore Amiga A500+(my first experience with a windowed DOS). I've built a few PC systems for other people but most of my PC's have been hand-me-downs so they haven't lasted very long(the P3 card bus types that over heated from dust attack). My current system is in my sig (with a few modifications now).
wow mine was an advent! had a P3 333Mhz cartridge, 128 Mb Ram, onboard graphics, 40gb hard disk, had 2 pci slots and one ISA slot! was bought in 98 i think???? long time ago! had win 98, os it could have been bought in 98??? cant remember what i had for dinner yestersday let alone years ago!
The first rig I build was my first decent gaming rig, all the other computer I have used have been build by HP Gigabyte DS3L P35 C2Q Q6600 Corsair XMS2 2Gb Sapphire 2600 XT Seagate 'Cuda 320 GB Antec New Solution Series NSK4480B I need a new GPU and some ram
My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. My first PC was Pentium 75 8MB RAM Intel motherboard Seagate 1GB HDD ATI graphics card with 1MB RAM
