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[Corey]

what were the specs of your first PC,,,...

my first computer was a Compaq's laptop..

Intel 100MHz
42 MB ram...i think
8 MB video memory
750 MB hard disk
CD - ROm...

[extremehardware]

Not as bad as mine!

Intel 33 MHz CPU
16 MB RAM
4 MB video memory
400 MB hard drive
2x cd-rom

I win.

[snlildude87]

extremehardware, on Mar 21 2005, 05:25 PM, said:

Not as bad as mine!

Intel 33 MHz CPU
16 MB RAM
4 MB video memory
400 MB hard drive
2x cd-rom

I win.

Ouch extremehardware! How was your experience on that computer??

Mine is:
Intel Pentium II 300 MHz
64 MB RAM
4 MB Video Card
6 GB HD
16x CD-ROM
Windows 98

My first computer is not that old, but it was a pain to do stuff like open Microsoft Notepad

[Corey]

snlildude87, on Mar 21 2005, 10:43 PM, said:

Ouch extremehardware! How was your experience on that computer??

well...

i *BLEEP*ed up Windows a couple of times...

it was pretty bad

[PHPtech]

Packard Bell Multimedia R500 (Desktop)
-200MHz Intel Pentium Processor with MMX technolgoy, and 32 KB of internal cache
-4.3 Gigabyte Hard Disk Drive
-32 MB EDO RAM
-36 Kbps Modem
-24x maximum, variable CD-ROM Drive
-2 USB (Universal Serial Bus) Ports
-64-bit Graphics/Video Accelerator with 2 MB EDO Video memory
-14.2 KBPs Fax installed
-Telephone Answering system with full duplex speakerphone
-MPEG 2 full full motion video playback with Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoding
-16-bit SRS Amphitheater Stereo Sound, Sound blaster
-keyboard and 2 button mouse

[Corey]

my 100 MHz Intel still works


does yours..

[alperuzi]

42MB of RAM on a P100??? noway, thats close to impossible unless you got it waay later on.

My first comp was:

Pentium 133 CPU
16MB EDO-RAM
2MB Oak Spitfire SVGA
8x CD-ROM
Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card (this thing was like 3 times the size of current graphics cards! and had its own RAM slots)

...and nothing else, that was it, oh, an Epson Stylus 500 printer

I think I payed around $2000 for all that... but that was close to the best computer you could get back then. After that all my computers have been close to mid-high range machines.

[alperuzi]

sorry forgot the harddisk (where is the edit button gone?)

it also had a 2GB Seagate Medallion harddisk,

talking of harddisks, my next hdd was a 6.4GB Seagate Medallion, and now I have a 40GB Seagate Barracuda IV and a 40GB Seagate Momentus on my laptop. Seagate harddisks rock!

[Galahad]

If we're talking about any PC, my first comp was

Commodore 64
I think it worked on 8MHz, had 64KB RAM
Commodore 1851, 5.25" Floppy drive
Two joysticks
a modem (wich I had no use for ; didn't have any ISP's at that, time)
I think, that covers it

Oh yes, it connected to a TV... It costed about, well, at least 900 euro's, converted to that time, it was in 89 or 90 that I got it, but I started really using it in '94...

If we're talking about first PC PC, it was

Intel 80286
16MHz, haaad... 1 MB RAM i believe
Unknown externaly mounted HDD, 40Mb
Hercules display adapter (orange/black combination)
aaaand, that about covers it

Nice, right?

[sandymc]

Yawn, i already forgot of what my first computer was.... i remember that my father bought it when i 8 years old.. i think it is still DOS based Operating System, you have to type WIN to enter Windows... and the Floppy Disk was also very big. From that computer, i had learned my first programming language, GWBasic and Basica... Lotus 123, DOS-Games, Return to castlevania, Pacman, Bomberman... owh man, that's really a great nostalgic time.

But i think my computer was same as Galahad's

Quote

Commodore 64
I think it worked on 8MHz, had 64KB RAM
Commodore 1851, 5.25" Floppy drive
Two joysticks
a modem (wich I had no use for ; didn't have any ISP's at that, time)
I think, that covers it

... but without modem... hehehe

[Corey]

alperuzi, on Mar 22 2005, 12:29 AM, said:

42MB of RAM on a P100??? noway, thats close to impossible unless you got it waay later on.

yeah....,may dad added some more later on..

[desdenova]

My first configuration is:

Intel 66 MHz CPU
16 MB RAM
4 MB video memory
400 MB hard drive
4x cd-rom

...and my second one configuration is:

Pentium 500 CPU
64MB RAM
8 MB VGA
16x CD-ROM

[Davor]

My first PC... Those were the days. It was in 1994.
The specs were:
Cyrix 486 DX2/66 MHz processor
8MB RAM
420MB HDD
Cyrus Logic 5428 graphics card with 8MB of memory as I can remember.
No CD.
I paid for it about 1600 Euro,so if I had those money now,I would for sure know which computer to buy.
Good old days. I had Commodore 64 before that.

[tonic]

My first PC was:

Intel 133MHz
64MB Ram
4GB HD
1MB Videocard,
28K modem
crappy soundcard
speakers that needs batteries
14' monitor
Slow CDrom (4X??)
and the good ol' floppy drive

[Good Grief Graphics]

My first computer was an old ibm, using that old os they had. I have no idea what the specs were, it was one of those all in one units. Then I built a computer with a 133mhz intel I believe... 512 mb hd, I can't remember. Then I built a computer with an AMD k6-2 w/ 3dnow (Not that that helped much ) and I had either 32 mb of ram or 64. It had a 6 gb hd. I think. I had an 8 mb ati graphics card, I think 16 was the biggest at that point.

Now I have a computer I built with an amd 64 3500+ (had to get the 939, I have the future in mind ), 1 gb of pc3200 ram, 80 gb hd, 128 mb ati radeon 9800 pro, dvd burner, and 19" viewsonic crt monitor.

[Good Grief Graphics]

Actually I think that the first one I built was a 100 mhz intel.

[Wyllt]

Lets see the first PC my family owned was a 286, can't remember the processor speed but it had an entire 4 megs of ram an a huge hard drive at 40 Megs. What a joke eh!

The first one I personally owned was a 486/66 with 32 Megs ram and a 120 Meg Hard Drive. I had that computer up until about three years ago (though I upgraded it so much it was barely recognizable only the case remained the same.)

[rakkertje22]

I had not realy bad pc, My first pc was an Pentium 1. slooooowww but it worked perfect

Intel Pentium 1 (166 Mhz)
24 MB RAM
about 4 MB videomemory
800 MB Harddisk I think
triplespeed CD-ROM

I've had a lot of fun with this computer

[Wyllt]

LOL A P1 166 is slow... I'm a PC tech for a school board and I still end up working on the occasional P1. Annoying as heck trying to tell the teacher that the reason they can't install FlashMX is because the PC they are trying to load it on is 10 years out of date.

[bureX]

Cyrix 166MHz
16MB EDO-RAM
3GB Seagate Hard Disk
Cirrus Logic VGA Graphics Card (1MB of memory)
CD-ROM 4x
Two button Genius COM port mouse
Philips 14" monitor (800x600 @ 60Hz - the best resolution that it could support)

I tried installing Windows ME on it once... Let's just say that you could double click on "My Computer" and go get yourself a cup of coffee while it opens...

[holmancarey]

My first machine was a compaq prolinea 486 with a 33 mhz intergrated cpu, (no coprocessor) 512kb video memory, 4 mb RAM, and a 90 mb hard drive. The machine had a floppy drive that worked and a cd-rom that didn't. Running dos 6.0 and Winblows for Workgroups 3.11. I remember one time accidentally deleting the file manager icon from the main window while adding games and deleting shrotcuts that didn't work. After rebooting the machine it would just come to a dos prompt. When i typed in "win" it would tell me "Bad Command or Filename". I must have tinkered with that machine for quite some time before finnaly giving in and reinstalling the os.
A few years later i managed to get a hold of a "Intel 486 DX/2 66mhz" Coprocessor, and upon trying to cram it into the "Non-ZIF" socket one of the pins bent over, which i didn't realize, and when it was powered on smoke came from the socket. Which wasn't really to awful bad since i already had a different machine with a 100mhz P1 with 16mb Ram a 500mb Hard drive, and a 2 mb Video card.
A lot has definately changed since then. Now I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with 2 250Gig SATA Hard drives and on 80 SATA, a Gig of PC3200 DDR 400, 2 DVD-+RW's and a 256 mb GeForce 5500.

[Someone]

My first pc was :
Intel Celeron 900 mhz and later clocked to 1200 mhz
128 mb sdram
20 gb 5400 rpm
Soyo motherboard
Cd-rom with 54x (yes yes)
15" from dtk
intel 815 graphic card and later geforce 2 mx 64 mb
Pretty good

[reelkill]

My first computer that was officially mine was in 1999 and a

500mhz pentium lll
20 gb hd
128mb ram
nvida riva tnt2
soundblaster audio card
56k modem
ethernet
17"" Monitor
Color Printer

(This thing was loaded)

[EdgabtheGreat]

My first PC was an Osborne 1

This was considered the first ever portable computer. It was so heavy because it had a 5" monochrome CRT screen built into it and a keyboard that flapped down from the front.

CPU = 4.0 MHz
64K RAM
dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K drives

It didn't have a hard drive so I booted into Dos 3.0 using a 5-1/4 inch floppy disk.
I couldn't do much with it so eventially I pulled it apart just to see what was inside

I even found it on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1

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[bluedragon]

EdgabtheGreat, on Sep 16 2008, 06:50 PM, said:

My first PC was an Osborne 1

This was considered the first ever portable computer. It was so heavy because it had a 5" monochrome CRT screen built into it and a keyboard that flapped down from the front.

CPU = 4.0 MHz
64K RAM
dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K drives

It didn't have a hard drive so I booted into Dos 3.0 using a 5-1/4 inch floppy disk.
I couldn't do much with it so eventially I pulled it apart just to see what was inside

I even found it on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1

250px_Osborne1.jpg

This is seriously nice.. How old is this comp now ?