Silly john, you must have gotten mixed up, poor fella this was your first computer, it must have been on the breeding edge of technology at the time
I've owned an Amstrad CPC464. And at some point I got a Commodore 128 with a floppy drive and a modem as a matter of fact. The first "proper" PC I owned was a Mitac 4.5Mhz computer with 4Mb RAM and a 10Mb HDD! The thing was flying! It was eventually replaced by a 286 12Mhz also with 4Mb RAM, but with a 40Mb HDD, and it had both a 5.25" floppy as well as a 3.5" one! Then I went through a series of 386's until the computer world started exploding onto the scene with 486's. After the Pentium dooh-daah however, I've been sticking with AMD. So I started off with a K5, then a couple of K6's followed by a K6-2 and a K6-3 until the first Athlon T-bird showed up. The rest, as they say, is history.
My first PC was a 'Lamier/Lamar' something or other. It was a beast of a machine that ran off of 5 1/2 floppies. Two drives, one for the 'os' and the other for whatever application you where running. I wrote a short story on it and printed it off to the corresponding BEHEMOTH printer. It had to be the most basic of basic computers I have ever used. It looked more basic then that beast from Superman.
The first 'proper' PC I had had a pair of 5.25" floppy drives! This first one I had that's comparable to the ones we know today was an IBM model: AMD K6-2 @ 400Mhz 64Mb SDRAM 8Gb HDD Geforce 2 MX with a whopping 8Mb of RAM Win 98 SE A 15" 800x600 CRT Monitor I remember it being not too shabby at games - played plenty of HL1 on it! At the time we had dial-up and I remember being excited if my downloads hit 3 Kbps!
Mine was a 386 with windows 3.1.x got it from a friends father when they upgraded at work. Nice IBM machine and i still use the case with my parents machine today The first PC i build myself was a P1 166Mh MMX. Cant remember the graphic specs but i remember that i bought a dedicated 3d card at some point with 8 MB ram Was back in 1994 i think but i can be wrong.
My first computer was an Amiga 500+ (with the 1/2 meg upgrade!). My first PC came quite a lot later and I was about 16. It was a Packard Bell from PC World that had a 750mhz AMD in it and 256mb RAM. I think the GFX card was a Riva TNT2 16mb. It has now been handed to my parents after upgrading it several times, including another 128mb of RAM, an Audigy Platinmum ex soundcard, a 128mb Ati GFX card (can't remember exactly which) and a USB 2.0 expansion card!
BBC was first, then a 286 or a Amstrad, cant remeber which we had first. Then moved up through the ranks of PC 386, 486, and then the Pentinums. We also had the C64 and Amiga 500 Plus My fist PC I actually owned and didnt share with my Dad or Brothers was a IBM 486 DX 66, I remember it having a turbo button on the case and at the time had no idea what it did lol. THink I only had 500MB hard disk, and probably a 1mg Video Card Anyone remeber the Cyrix MMX CPU's I had to have one of them when it came out. My first serious VGA card for Gaming was a Voodo 3 so I could play HL, Counterstrike etc.
Started off with a Commodore +4 Then had an Amstrad CPC464 with an external 3" Floppy Drive I borrowed for a time a Compaq luggable PC Then I bought myself a Viglen 386SX PC. It had a whole megabyte of memory! 16 Mhz (20 if you pushed the turbo button), and a capacious 40Mb HDD! Windows 3.1!!! The sheer power!
We had a ZX Spectrum and an Acorn Electron at home about the same time, and an IBM compatible 386 shortly after. I spent most of my time on the Spectrum with the likes of Manic Miner, Chucky Egg and Atic Atac. The first computer that was truly mine was a Cyrix PR233 (188MHz with a 75 MHZ FSB.) Dad bought it for me on the understanding that I could do anything with is, but if I broke it, only I would be fixing it. Upgraded the 4mb integrated VGA graphics on the PC Chips motherboard with an Orchid Righteous 3D 3DFx accelerator card. The Cyrix as a computer is long gone but I still have the processor and Orchid in a box along with a few of Voodoo 3s and assorted S7 and Slot 1 CPUs.
I still have a factory sealed Windows 3.1 full release version. Never can tell when you might want to upgrade something. john
I think I still have my DOS 5 upgrade diskettes somewhere... I know that my 3" CP/M boot disk is in a box in the loft, so they're proabably with that. Ah - the good old days, where you had to know your extended memory from your expanded memory, need 3rd party utilites to manage it and had to type WIN to get into the GUI.
We had a C64 if that counts. If not, our first was a 486 with Windows 3.1 that we got in 1998 free from my dads work when they were upgrading everything.
Some Pentium II with windows 95, I quite remember when we bought a new vga so we could do the upgrade to Windows 95... as well as the cost of the cart then... *shouts in pain for the money he lost* (well my dad )
Mine was a 368 Laptop (with docking station... in the docking station, the screen had COLOUR. Otherwise it was monochrome). 8MB RAM. Not usre about HDD space. That ran windows 3.1 and later 3.11. I started coding on that (no joke), by teaching myself some QBasic (DOS 6). Good fun. From there on i moved to a Pentium MMX166MHz. That lasted a while, then got replaced with a Celeron 700 MHz, a AMD Athlong 2000+, a P4 2.8GHz HT, then a C2D
There were a couple of beige boxes which i used to play the lion king on when i was a kid (3.1 Cheesecake!) but i suppose the first proper computer came into being when i shoved a geforce 4 MX into our tiny built P4 POS to create my first gaming rig (i was only 12 don't judge me). My first "proper" computer was the one i built my self, the core of which still serves me today: A64 3500+, 2GB DDR400, A8N SLI, 6800GT
Don't remember the specs but it was a 486 with a Turbo button. I think it went from 33MHz to 66MHz when you pressed the button...
A turbo button, that's amazing The only thing I can remember about my first pc was the motior displayed green, and it didn't do much more than display text. After that I got windows 3.1 machine which I thought was amazing.
C64 was my first computer. My first pc was a 486DX66 with a Quad core CD Rom in it, and a Soundblaster 16 also. It had.....not much space and not much ram, but I could play Warcraft 1+2 and Doom and Hexen on it just fine.
