Soldato
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I had an Epson 80286 given to me whilst at Uni, followed by an awful Cyrix gaming pc in the mid 90s with a 6mb Voodoo Rush gpu that crashed all the time playing Doom.
What was your first PC spec?
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I'll re-post a post I made 12 years ago on here!
So that PC was 30 years ago!Prior to 8086 based computers I had a mixture of Commodores and Sinclair’s but I got my first actual PC 18 years ago. It was a Toshiba T3100 laptop (manufactured from 1986), it featured a 8 MHz Intel 80286 CPU, 512K of memory (yep K not Mb), 20Mb harddrive, 3 ½ inch low density floppy drive and a monochrome 9.6" gas-plasma display with a resolution of up to 640x400 pixels.
Used it doing by first year of college and did me well for all my coding work (Pascal iirc) and assignment write ups. Wasn’t until the following year that I moved to a 486 Dx33 system mainly because I started using a Object Oriented version of Pascal that wouldn’t work on the laptop.
What really did impress me was despite such a low spec it still ran all the main types of apps, spreadsheet, relational database, WYSIWYG (wow that’s an old term) word processor, and a copy of Autoroute UK. (although the 4 colour gas-plasma screen was no good for looking at smut )
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You have a good memory guys. Only thing I remember from my first PC was Amiga 500(i think) and then Pentium 133 and windows 95.
Unless you will class Commodore 64 as PC
Unless you will class Commodore 64 as PC
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A 486 DX2-66 It cost my parents £1500 in the early 90s.
I've been online since 1994 with a 28.8k modem using Demon as my ISP as they had a local POP. 1st CD Rom was a quad speed to play the game Full Throttle.
I've been online since 1994 with a 28.8k modem using Demon as my ISP as they had a local POP. 1st CD Rom was a quad speed to play the game Full Throttle.
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PIII 450
128MB RAM
13GB HDD
No idea the GFX
CD-RW drive.
17" CRT
128MB RAM
13GB HDD
No idea the GFX
CD-RW drive.
17" CRT
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First actual PC was as AMD Duron 600mhz? Second hand Acer 19" CRT monitor, huge! No gfx card as I found out when I tried to play some games bought an FX 5600 to plug it in only to find it didn't have an AGP slot had to take it back and have the motherboard swapped for one that did. From a guy who built them himself and sold them from home. Think he was pretty fed up with me coming back for more especially as the 1st gfx card was faulty and blew the PSU!
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First computer was an acorn.
First actual mainsteam pc nowadays back then in 2001 was an amd athlon 800mhz, 192 mb of ram, ati rage gpu, that is all i can remember..made by pc vendor advent.
First actual mainsteam pc nowadays back then in 2001 was an amd athlon 800mhz, 192 mb of ram, ati rage gpu, that is all i can remember..made by pc vendor advent.
First "computer" was a ZX80 self build, followed by a microtan home build
I think my first couple of PCs were bought, and were CGA graphics based systems.
I do recall buying both for home and work, a lot of systems from DAN computers way back when.
I think my first couple of PCs were bought, and were CGA graphics based systems.
I do recall buying both for home and work, a lot of systems from DAN computers way back when.
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My first ‘PC’ was a 486 DX/66 or DX/100 I believe with 4mb EDO ram that I had to upgrade to 8mb to play A Final Unity 
Before that it was my Amiga 1200 which I love as much today as I did back then
Before that it was various Spectrums
Before that it was my Amiga 1200 which I love as much today as I did back then
Before that it was various Spectrums
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I'm not ashamed to admit my first PC was a shop bought one. This was back in September 99' I think.
Other than the old systems like CPC, Amiga, C64 etc.
PIII 450
128MB RAM
12GB HDD (I remember the guy in the shop telling me I'd never fill a 12GB HDD)
Voodoo 3 2000
15" CRT
Goldeneye on DVD came free! The computer had a DVD player inside it!
It also game with a copy of Delta Force! Oh my days, what a game. I still remember the first missing, running over the first hill and taking out the guard in the watch tower.
Almost the same!
Except
PIII 450
128mb RAM
13G HDD (probably 12G after format!)
I think I had an nVidia card of some sort
17" CRT
Also had a CD-RW drive too, and later on I added a DVD-RW which i thought was the biz.
I think the machine lasted may be 2 years max, my dad bought it for my after year 2 at Uni in the summer, so used it for Year 3. I then went back to uni for my post grad which I bought an AMD machine with ATI 9700 Pro, which was only 2 years later.
I remember the PIII 450 cost £1400. In today's money it's £3300. I am going to get a new Mac soon and it'll be £2200 tops!
My current Mac that i paid £2,000 for has lasted 11 years...
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486DX2 66, 4mb ram, 500mb hdd, 1mb s3 graphic card
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I remember my first pc
It was an Intel Celeron 667mhz, 64mb ram, GeForce 3ti200 ! It was an e machine branded pc!
The first pc I built myself was
Amd xp 6000
4gb ddr2
8800ultra
I still have the 8800 ultra and it still works!
It was an Intel Celeron 667mhz, 64mb ram, GeForce 3ti200 ! It was an e machine branded pc!
The first pc I built myself was
Amd xp 6000
4gb ddr2
8800ultra
I still have the 8800 ultra and it still works!
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I'm not ashamed to admit my first PC was a shop bought one. This was back in September 99' I think.
Other than the old systems like CPC, Amiga, C64 etc.
PIII 450
128MB RAM
12GB HDD (I remember the guy in the shop telling me I'd never fill a 12GB HDD)
Voodoo 3 2000
15" CRT
Goldeneye on DVD came free! The computer had a DVD player inside it!
It also game with a copy of Delta Force! Oh my days, what a game. I still remember the first missing, running over the first hill and taking out the guard in the watch tower.
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Cyrix 486 DX2 66Mhz
4Mb Ram
270Mb HD
Dual Speed CD-Rom
Graphics - S3 of some sort
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486 SX 33 Mhz
4 Mb
240 Mb HD
14 inch CRT monitor for SVGA display(I can't remember the name of the video card that I had).
I eventually got a soundcard and an analogue(Gravis) joystick, and then a CD-ROM drive.
4 Mb
240 Mb HD
14 inch CRT monitor for SVGA display(I can't remember the name of the video card that I had).
I eventually got a soundcard and an analogue(Gravis) joystick, and then a CD-ROM drive.
VIC 20 was my first computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20
My first PC was an Amstrad Mega PC - it had an intergated Sega Megadrive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_Mega_PC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20
My first PC was an Amstrad Mega PC - it had an intergated Sega Megadrive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_Mega_PC