Your First Ever PC.

[mantadog]

I still remember the tune of the modem connecting to the internet... deedawwwdeeedaaaaw, phhhhrrrrrrrfffff....

Probably the best bit i think i might change the windows startup noise to that!!!!

[Encolpius]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... BIBIBIBIBIBIBIBIBIBIBIBI.

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii TWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, KÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓRCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH JZH BungABung! thrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpTHRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP SPHEIIINNNGG, SPHEIIINNNGG, WHRTHRRRRRRRRRR.

*Connected at 28800 bps*

Good times, good times.

[mishra]

My very first PC ever, was 286 XT I think or something like that. It came with Turbo button, no mouse, hercules graphic card - which was not black and white - it was black background and orange text (interlaced ofocurse). There was no sound card yet I can still remember AxelF tune through pc buzzer these were the good times. I think it had also 10MB or 20MB drive and the 5inch floppy drive. I remember having DOS on it, Norton Commander and Prince of Persia and I think game called Formula 1 or sth like that It was so long ago...

Don't really remember that PC... it was more of a type writter than a PC. My mum got it for me from her old work. However it taught me Qbasic language.. and I made my first ever program = calculator. Was well impressed by that. But I got that PC, when there was already 486 on the market... so not many games worked under it. So I begged and begged and my mum bought me Intel Pentium 133Mhz, with colour monitor, Windows 95 and sound card It cost fortune!!! Before we paid it all it was worth next to nothing like 12 months later. At that time, you could buy top end PC - pay fortune for it - and few months later it was worthless.

[omens]

Other than the ZX Spectrum 48K and 128K, our first Windows based PC was:

Pentium 100MHz (the fastest at the time and didn't suffer the floating point integer the earlier models did)
16MB EDO RAM (8MB was standard, 32MB luxury)
1GB 7200rpm HDD (at a time when 500MB was on most computers)
1MB Avance Logic graphics card (we debated getting a 4MB Diamond one)
SoundBlaster 16 (my dad didn't want to get the AWE 32)
CD-ROM drive, floppy disc drive
14" CRT, speakers, keyboard, mouse
LOADS of bundled software - Win95, Encarta, MS Works, Best of Windows Entertainment Pack, and a whole host of other programes I can't remember. Back then, bundled software was an important dealbreaker.

My fave game was EF2000 - a Eurofighter simulator and I played it with this joystick:



I remember having fun with memmaker to get the max base RAM in DOS because it didn't matter how much upper memory you had, it was important to free as much of the 640K as possible.

[DanteWilhelm]

Amstrad CPC6128

CPU: Zilog Z80A @ 4 MHz
Memory: 128 kB


mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


Of course after that comes the inevitable purchase of a ''modern'' machine which yes, like all the others here, cost over £1000

HP M something
1.2ghz CPU
128mb RAM
40gb hard drive


Now I have 13ghz of processing power and 8gb of ram what's going on? I've gone from a 16mb graphics card to a 2gb graphics card!

[Elpme]

Spectrum 48k, oops showing my age think i was around 11 at the time. I didnt actually get another PC until XP was out and no people i didnt use the spectrum until then lol. A few games consoles inbetween tho.

[Encolpius]

Alas, I never had a speccy, nor knew anyone who had a speccy. I think they were before my time.

[Rapcar]

yep, my 1st was a spectrum 48k. The best game for the speccy was Elite. At the time it was the nuts!!!

[Ash]

The first PC we had as a family was in the early 90s. I was only born in 91 so I can't remember it but my dad is always telling me about it's "40mb HDD that would last you years!" lol

[Wolvo7]

Nice thread

Think our first PC was an IBM thinkpad, can't remember the model. We still have it in a box somewhere, turned it on a couple of years ago and it still works Weighs like a bag of bricks on your lap though. It was around 1998, I was 8. Hard to believe it was 14 years ago..

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Specs:

The 700 was based on a 25MHz Intel 486SLC processor backed by 4MB of memory and a choice of 80MB or 120MB hard drive. Its screen was a 9.5in, 640 x 480 monochrome job, physically smaller than the 10.4in, 640 x 480 active-matrix colour screen fitted to the premium-priced 700C. The higher-end model had the same processor as the 700, but a removable 120MB hard drive came as standard though buyers could choose either 4MB, 8MB or 16MB of memory.

Both machines contained nickel metal hydride batteries good for almost four hours' use, IBM claimed at launch. The 700C weighed in at 3.5kg (7.6lb), while the 700 was 3kg (6.5lb). The price was hefty too: a cool $4,350, worth rather more in 1992 than it is today. The 80MB 700 cost $2750, the 120MB version $2950

Yikes at the price! I'll treat it with more respect next time I see it.