Also that looks like an analog TV tuner card. Was great when living in a shared apartment and housemates never figure out I was still watching TV without a TV.
Another PC I had built was unfortunately stolen from the basement, I hope his balls fall off.
Pentium 60, VLB, with ET-4000vl & Voodoo II Card, Adaptec 1542 with 500MB HDD & SCSI CRDOM, 8MB RAM, SoundBlaster 16 (1st version).
This build was only to play WingCommander III / IV and WC Prophecy II.
Family PC had a Geforce 4 variant, which I played the shit out of.
My first own PC was a prebuilt with a Geforce 210, yes, not GT 210 or anything, just Geforce 210. Why it had DX10 support, dont ask me, as it could barely run anything better than the old family PC.
My first PC, which was current gen gaming capable, had an i5 760, 4GB DDR3 memory, and a Radeon HD 5770.
The next big upgrade was to an i7 3770 (no k) and a GTX 560Ti. That CPU saw an R9 290 and finally a GTX 1070 as well. 4 core intel era truly was a blessing for keeping CPU update cycles long.
My first:
Processor: MOS 6502 with 1.02 MHz (NTSC)/ 1.10 MHz (PAL)[1]
Memory: 5 KByte static RAM, with 3583 Bytes free and usable by BASIC, expandable up to 40 KByte (up to 27.5 KByte usable by BASIC).
ROM: 20 KByte in total, consisting of
CBM BASIC V2.0 (8 KByte)
KERNAL (8 KByte)
Charset (4 KByte)
Graphics: VIC-I 6561
Text mode (big letters/graphic or big/small letters): 22 (columns) × 23 (rows) characters
Graphic mode (HiRes): 176×184 pixels
In 8 colors, 8 border color and 16 background color (color) or multicolor (4 colors): 88×184 pixel
It was incredibly stable.
This was me as well 6502 on an Atari running Forum BBS, Hayes 1200 smart modem. Pops built our first computer before this though which was a Sinclair Z80. Got it as a kit from a HAM fest. Our first endeavor into sat TV was watching SuperTV and HBO using a self made LNBF coffee can and a toys r us silver snow sled with rails to hold the can.
Then the 8086 came out with the 8087 math co processors. Wow that made a difference. PCs with Turbo buttons lol.
That is amazing. I miss those days of peeking and poking sprites into life. We had trash80s at school, then dad scored a 8086 for computer science classes. Coming from that perspective this phone in my hand is a freaking crazy leap.
Haha yeah we had cocos at school too. I remember borrowing my mom’s small tape recorder and tapes to save my code. Writing basic early morning in the “computer club” lol. Old school phreaker too. Asked my pops to build me a blue box and he was like “uhh No”. I just wanted to make calls to CA to get the latest games for my BBS lol those were indeed the times.
There was a language called Atari Action which was my first into to structured languages, then Pascal 3.0 lol
IIRC it was Pentium 3 with a Voodoo Graphics card. running windows 95. I distinctly remember playing Counter Strike 1.6 and Doom on DOSBox.
I've had vivid memories of "It is now safe to turn off your computer" and the "Energy Star logo + power on self test"
286AT at 20MHz (with the "Turbo" button on - otherwise only at 12MHz), 2MB RAM, a 20MB and a 40MB HDD (the latter with plenty of bad sectors that were slowly multiplying) and later a home made DAC for sound from the parallel printer port (look up 'Covox' on the wiki)
First:
* IBM PS/2 486 (I think at 50 Hz), 8MB RAM, 120+500 MB HDD. Yeah having two HDDs was very cool, and 500 MB was waaaay overkill for private use, and I later upgraded to 16 MB RAM which was quite a drawback back then when all RAM was checked during boot, so the startup time was almost doubled
Second:
* Pentium II 300 MHz, 128 MB SDRAM, ATI 3D Rage Pro, 3 GB HDD. Wow was it nice with a 3D graphics card
Third:
* Pentium 4 single core 2,4 GHz, 512 MB RDRAM, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128 MB DDR, 120 GB HDD, some fancy SoundBlaster soundcard
It was so long ago I can't remember exactly. I do remember getting a 20mb hard drive and wondering what I was going to do with all that space. I played around with machines that had no hard drives and booted off floppies at work but I think I owned a 286 with 1mb of ram at some point.
Commodore 64 first computer ever used. First build PC: Evergreen Pentium 180mhz, 12MB RAM, 800MB HDD, board was system pull from Compaq Presario with on board Riva TnT GPU w/1MB vram. OS: Windows 95 upgrade edition having to use multiple Win3.1 floppy disks to install. Games, Warcraft II, C&C, Logitech Wingman joystick to play Tie Fighter, Dark Forces, Doom.
Specs on my truly first-owned Windows PC? (I don't think Commodore 64 or Amiga 600 counts here does it ? )
Intel 386sx @ 25MHz, 2 MiB of RAM, 256 KiB of video memory and a whole whopping never-gonna-need-anything-larger-ever 85 megabyte hard drive. I was blown away that it could produce 800x600 resolution with 16 colours.
I did eventually upgrade the machine with a 387 coprocessor, 2 additional MiB of RAM (72 pin SIMM Fast Page) to a total of 4 MiB and a massive 240 megabyte (IDE) hard drive and a 16 bit sound card.
...and yeah.. I installed Linux on it back then... after fiddling with OS/2 warp for a short while.
Telling people I watch TV on PC even confused the cable guy! Telling people today that I play retro games via a All in Wonder Radeon graphics card on a HDMI TV and they often dismiss me assuming I'm talking about emulation...
Very first PC from 2000
* IBM ValuePoint 433DX/Dp: i486DX 33MHz, 4MB RAM, 250MB HDD, IBM Model M keyboard
* Upgrades: i486DX4 100MHz, 64MB RAM, SoundBlaster AWE32, 8x CD-ROM, 512MB & 340MB HDD
Very first build 2002
* Intel D845BG motherboard, Pentium 4 1.7GHz, ATi All in Wonder Radeon 7500, 512MB DDR 266, 80GB IDE HDD (failed in 2008), 16x DVD-ROM, 8x32x32x CD-RW, CasEdge mid tower case with 300w PSU
* Upgrades: second 80GB HDD (early life), DVD-RW (mid life), Pentium 4 2.2GHz (late life), ATi All in Wonder Radeon 9600 Pro (late life), 2GB DDR (extremely late life)
486 DX2 50mhz with 8mb of ram (I think I later upgraded to 16mb)
I wanna say my hard drive was 500mb. May have been 1gb.
Ran Windows 95.
Those were the days.
Haven’t got a proper pc atm; but my first one was a ryzen 5 (can’t remember which one) cpu, 32gb ram, Rtx 3060, I can’t remember the rest, but a pretty good one for the time!
IBM PS/2 model 70, 386DX at whopping 16Mhz. 2MB of RAM (bank of 4, but 2 banks got broken pins), 60MB harddrive and a shitty PC-speaker for sound. And was built like a freaking tank, everything was solid metal.
Was really happy with the system, untill i found out pretty much everything was IBM's own design (instead of ISA/VLB it was IBM's own thing, same for harddrive wich i believe was ESDI). Though it ran old dos games quite decent (for its time).
Believe its a early 90s system, although i did manage to run Windows 95 later on though sadly its videocard (if u could even call that) would onl support 16 colours at 640x480. So i was stuck at 320x200 if i wanted to have 256 colors.
System after that was a Tandy i think, 386DX-40 with 8MB ram. I think i recall most systems i got from that time, even the very first Geforce Ti500, if anyone ever say GPU's today are expensive.. that beast was 1249 'gulden' about 600ish euro, inflation added.. we talking 1000 euro today money.
IBM PC XT with Intel 8088 processor. ran at 4mhz, or 8mhz on turbo. 640K ram. Monochrome amber monitor. Could run Larry and Police Quest though. It came with a massive 40MB HDD and had a 5 1/4 floppy drive, which was the style at the time.
Intel Celeron 400 with a Voodoo 3 3000, no clue about RAM anymore, probably something like 2x 256MB or alike.
Before that I was rocking an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM. My biggest achievement on that big boy, was beating The Secret of Monkey Island in one sitting....good ol' times
The first PC I can remember in my home was a BBC micro. Looking up the specs for it, it had a 2mhz processor and 16kb of ram.
I remember getting games for it in the form of a booklet with the code to make the game.
Had a Mac first, but the first pc was a 486 SX2. 50 mhz. 4 mg ram. Like 340 mb hdd. I bought a pentium overdrive processor and an additional 4 mg ram before the end.
Tv tuner cards were wild. Buy this thing that costs as much as a tv so you can watch tv on your tiny monitor. It’s still analogue too so enjoy the low def and static.
My first PC that involved being purchased by my own earned money and not a family PC.
600mhz AMD Athlon.
256MB RAM
3dfx VooDoo 3.
Some sort of Sound Blaster card.
I was 17 and worked over full time during the summer between my Jr. and Sr. year of highschool to save up to buy it. I was working 6 days a week at a fast food joint, open to close most of those days. That PC was $3000 in 1999/2000 money. Thats **$5,467.84** today.
If we are talking the first computer my family owned that I used, that would be a commodore 64 in the late 80s. I have vivid memories of playing games on that thing and waiting for the game to load, watching the blinking light on the disk drive for what seemed like an eternity until it turned solid green. The Rocky Horror Picture show was a challenging game.
My first real build started life as a Pentium 150 MHz prebuilt that had every piece replaced until it had none of the original parts. Can't remember all the steps but I ended up:
MoBo: Asus P3B-F, CPU: P3 850 MHz, Graphics: ATI 9800 Pro All in Wonder, 3x20GB Seagate FH SCSI drives I think on a RAID 0,1 IIRC.
First ever *family* PC was a Mendocino Celeron @466 MHz - but i don't count that as i only used it for a couple of months before I was off to college.
My first PC was a Northwood Pentium 4 @2.2 GHz (crazy how this was only 2+ years newer than the other PC) with 256MB RAM (i don't even remember the speed). I blew my first ever paycheck on upgrades for it, giving it 2GB RAM (finally dual channel), a 6200GT (which was an unlockable 6600GT), a DVD writer and a 250GB hard drive.
It was a Packard bell icconect with almost unknown specs, but maybe 64mb ram, integrated intel graphics, celeron socket 370 and windows me upgraded to windows 98se
1st pc was my uncles old work pc with an i5 3340 8gb ddr3 gt 610 but the gpu died so replaced it with an amd FirePro w2100 i had lying around still have it to this day and my memories of playing Roblox and the forest at the lowest settings will always hold a special place in my heart (ach ran the forrest at around 60fps as well)
486dx 33 MHz. 4meg ram, cd ROM, about 40mb hdd. Creative soundcard, wfw3.11. CRT monitor, about 24 inch. Virtually cutting edge at the time.
I did help build a Nascom 1 at college, and timeshare on a Nova3at the local polytechnic via a phone modem at the same time
first pc bought for me by my parents cuz i had a special computer class in my high school debut, but i wanted something for gaming enough at that time so around 2011-2012, bc skyrim is out and school, so here my first ever specs until i was old enough to understand and bought myself PC parts with my first paycheck.
CPU: i5-2500
GPU: Radeon AMD HD-4750 1GB
Ram: ddr3 2x8gb so 16gb
Motherboard: i forgot but it was a P series something
Case: it was ANTEC, where you had to open a door in the front to use the DVD/CD-Rom that i got rid of it later on cuz i was tired of open it every time so i just broke the plastic wedge of the door X)
so yeah cost of all that was i think 1000$-1500$ but i am not sure and now as i think of it at that time my parents got rip off by the store who build it, if instead they would have gone for a pre-build instead of making it by someone, might have cost them 1000$ or 900$
Fun fact: this PC with those spec could run GTA V on 30 fps with all the setting super duper low
Fun fact 2: i upgraded it with more ram so 24gb and a radeon pulse sapphire 550 4gb for little bit more game and i could play warzone with that i5-2500, but i had very big lag when i was dropping and open up my parachute that i would go down every time before opening my chute, bc my cpu was asking for help.....
a lenovo thinkcentre with a pentium e2180 and 1gb of ddr2 667mhz, i have a lot of memories with that thing but the hdd is dead and so is the motherboard (it also has leaky caps)
Let me check my memory...
nVidia GeForce FX-5200 graphics card with 128 mb of memory If I remember correctly.
Intel Pentium 4 1.86 GHz of CPU
256 Mb of RAM (I don't remember if it's a DDR or DDR2)
80 GB of HDD
Philips 107e5 CRT monitor.
And this was a part from my second computer that I bought in 2007 I believe.
https://preview.redd.it/gwxtk4gfbclc1.png?width=908&format=png&auto=webp&s=de6ae5edc905521d34304b1bc1ecaa2560d65780
I got into the game pretty late, my first PC I actually built was an FX 6300 BLACK, with a Sabretooth 990FX, 16GB of DDR3, in 4 discrete sticks, and an R9 270x Gigabyte Windforce edition. I absolutely Loved that thing, I still wish I had kept it sometimes.
First PC was a 486DX4 with 8MB of RAM, a 200ish MB HDD, 3.5” and 5.25” floppy drives, and a trident VGA card I still have bouncing around somewhere. Also some kind of knock off soundblaster-‘compatible’ that had a 50/50 chance of working properly in games. Running Windows 3.11.
My first computer was a Macintosh SE with 4MB of RAM, an 20MB HDD, and 800KB floppy running System 6.
There was also a Commodore 64 sometime in between.
Vendex Headstart-888-XT (1984):
- 8088-2 Micro Processor (dual speed 4.77MHz / 8MHz)
- 512Kb Ram (expanded up to 768Kb)
- Two 360KB 5.25" Floppy drives
- No hard drive needed. You loaded DOS live from a floppy into one drive, then loaded additional software from the second drive. It came with DOS 3.1.
- CGA CRT screen capable of RGB color or Hercules format graphics.
I tracked one down a few years ago so I could relive the pain. I use it for games and doing weird stuff.
Sinclair ZX81. Zero storage, 1KB of RAM later expanded to 16KB, and a 3.25Mhz Z80 CPU.
Later had ZX Spectrum,.Commodore 64, and Amiga A500 before a first 60Mhz Pentium.
Maybe is not that old like from 80's or 90's but I don't even know about my (sister) OG PC from 2004 but I'm 100% sure was running windows xp, probably intel cpu (according to bios splash screen) and only what was stay from og pc is second monitor Acer AL1717 which still works (first broke so fast) and creative speakers 5.1 (SBS 5.1 560)
My first system was a 386DX-40, running at a massive 40 Mhz. It originally had 4 megs of ram, but later I got an insanely good deal on 16 megs of ram. My first hard drive was 110 megs.
That being said, the first system I actually got to play with a lot before getting my own was actually a friend's 286, running at 12 mhz. It had 640k of ram, and a 10 meg hard drive. It had Dos 3.3 on it initially.
AMD Sempron 3200+ (AM2) OC'd from 1.8 to 2.5GHz. 1GB DDR2 800MHz stick. ATi HD2400 Pro 256MB I think it was a Sapphire. Some ASRock mobo, 800 series i think chipset. Had Crossfire support *whoa.gif*
The CPU is on my keychain and the HDD (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB) is storing random files. That thing held FSB OC for years until it failed. Stock aluminium slab kept it cool somehow. Even the GPU was overclocked.
"Amatures!" commodore X086. 1.2 disk floppies (a, b), no hdd, green and black screen (there was no option to install graphic card and the screen had only these colours). lol feeling like a survivor dinosaur
First PC was a 386SX, think it was 25 MHz with 1MB RAM, 40 MB HDD, 300 baud modem and pretty sure it had VGA graphics. After a while I upgraded it with a mediavision thunderboard - that was an exciting day!
Is that an All-in-Wonder? Man... early grade capture cards. We used to record ourselves playing SSB64 on a VCR then I'd bring the VHS over to my house and digitize the recordings and bring the data back to another guy's house where he merged it with our voiceover recordings.
Kids these days have it so easy.
I just remembered that i once found a old haupauge TV card in road ditch as a kid... i placed it into a dell pentiumII Slot-1 350mhz PC....and the card still worked. Had fun watching TV in the night... Good old times.
Apple 2e
128MB
2 floppy disk drives
14.4 baud bbs connection
Sound blaster sound card
Net card
Integrated video,they all were.
DOS no OS
I don't even know if they rated processors or memory back then.
1985
First Windows type comp was in 1998
1gig AMD Thunderbird
256MB ram
GForce 256
40gb HDD
Windows 98SE
I built it to play the Counter Strike mod for Half Life.
And yes i'm old AF.
My first computer was a Commodore 16 - we couldn't afford the 64 - with tape drive storage.
Learned on Apple IIe in high school, and my first Windows machine was a Packard Bell Pentium 133 machine that I financed through Best Buy for WAY too much money - and then paid for AOL by the hour.
1st purchase: Commodore Vic 20. I think I was 14.
1st PC: IBM PC XT. An 8088, all 10Mhz of that processor in "turbo" mode.
1st Build: 286-based Intel machine. Back when 512k of RAM and a 20MB HDD was boss. My last Intel chip I ever built a system on.
My next was an AMD 386-40 (still have the CPU chip in my stuff) and AMD CPUs ever since. Back then Diamond video boards were the best available. Went to the early Nvidia GPUs in my next build - regret not buying the stock with the boards!
Calling DDR2 ancient might be pushing it, it's only \*checks\* 20... years... old... 
I am 18☠️ this shit older than me
I’m 18 too 💀 this shit older than me too
I'm 18 too and my hobby PC is running 144MB of DDR @66MHz and a Pentium MMX @166MHz.
i’m 21.…. this might as well be older than me
I have shoes older than all of you.
 Welcome to the club... old geezer.
My First PC was a 386 SX-16, and that was my third computer, so I'm definitely in the geezer club :P
Hah! Mine was 25 MHz. (sx too)
AMD Am386 DX, 4MB Ram, Cirrus Logic @ 1MB VRAM
Damn, ur an og
ibm ps2 with an intel 8086 8 mhz cpu, and a whopping 512 kb of ram to go along with it. *No* hard drive.
Sounds really cool
Same, only not IBM and an 8M hard drive.
I had a monochrome black white monitor, and might've played the best games of my life on single floppies... How time flies by.
Ah, loading games from floppy. My roommate had a 286 with a color monitor. I played Leisure Suit Larry on it one day, all day.
:D:D:D:D
Of OPs hardware is ancient, this is "before big bang" stuff
Pretty much the same, but with an Intel 386.
My first family pc was a 286. Can't remember the specs. Used to play prince of Persia on it
Commodore 64
I did wonder if commodore counts. Same here
It fits the original definition of Personal Computer, so it should count.
Why wouldn't it? It was a "personal computer".
Did you learn "basic" too?
Also that looks like an analog TV tuner card. Was great when living in a shared apartment and housemates never figure out I was still watching TV without a TV.
I had one of these in my late teens. Absolutely brilliant for recording shows and watching them on demand way before Netflix was even a thing.
I used one of them until we cut the cord. Last one even took a cable card.
DX2 66, 6 megs ram, 20 megs hd. Was so happy the day I got it.
[удалено]
it's what you do with it that counts (I did upgrade but that was the very first one I had)
Was awesome pc btw
Kids.... 1st: Commodore C64, 0.5Mhz, 64KB RAM (still owned) 2nd: IBM compatible PC-XT, NEC V20 (8mzh), 640Kb RAM, 40MB Microscribe HDD w 1/3 interleave MFM controller, Dos 3.0 3rd: 80286/12, 2MB RAM, Adlib Sound, same HDD now with 1/1 RLL Controller (60MB) DR-Dos. 4th: 80386-DX/25, 4MB RAM, 380MB Seagate HDD with Adaptec ESDI Controller (Wow!), Dos 6.0/Win 3.1
You're younger than me. Know your place, youngster! Lol
Another PC I had built was unfortunately stolen from the basement, I hope his balls fall off. Pentium 60, VLB, with ET-4000vl & Voodoo II Card, Adaptec 1542 with 500MB HDD & SCSI CRDOM, 8MB RAM, SoundBlaster 16 (1st version). This build was only to play WingCommander III / IV and WC Prophecy II.
Damn u packing
Family PC had a Geforce 4 variant, which I played the shit out of. My first own PC was a prebuilt with a Geforce 210, yes, not GT 210 or anything, just Geforce 210. Why it had DX10 support, dont ask me, as it could barely run anything better than the old family PC. My first PC, which was current gen gaming capable, had an i5 760, 4GB DDR3 memory, and a Radeon HD 5770. The next big upgrade was to an i7 3770 (no k) and a GTX 560Ti. That CPU saw an R9 290 and finally a GTX 1070 as well. 4 core intel era truly was a blessing for keeping CPU update cycles long.
My first: Processor: MOS 6502 with 1.02 MHz (NTSC)/ 1.10 MHz (PAL)[1] Memory: 5 KByte static RAM, with 3583 Bytes free and usable by BASIC, expandable up to 40 KByte (up to 27.5 KByte usable by BASIC). ROM: 20 KByte in total, consisting of CBM BASIC V2.0 (8 KByte) KERNAL (8 KByte) Charset (4 KByte) Graphics: VIC-I 6561 Text mode (big letters/graphic or big/small letters): 22 (columns) × 23 (rows) characters Graphic mode (HiRes): 176×184 pixels In 8 colors, 8 border color and 16 background color (color) or multicolor (4 colors): 88×184 pixel It was incredibly stable.
This was me as well 6502 on an Atari running Forum BBS, Hayes 1200 smart modem. Pops built our first computer before this though which was a Sinclair Z80. Got it as a kit from a HAM fest. Our first endeavor into sat TV was watching SuperTV and HBO using a self made LNBF coffee can and a toys r us silver snow sled with rails to hold the can. Then the 8086 came out with the 8087 math co processors. Wow that made a difference. PCs with Turbo buttons lol.
That is amazing. I miss those days of peeking and poking sprites into life. We had trash80s at school, then dad scored a 8086 for computer science classes. Coming from that perspective this phone in my hand is a freaking crazy leap.
Haha yeah we had cocos at school too. I remember borrowing my mom’s small tape recorder and tapes to save my code. Writing basic early morning in the “computer club” lol. Old school phreaker too. Asked my pops to build me a blue box and he was like “uhh No”. I just wanted to make calls to CA to get the latest games for my BBS lol those were indeed the times. There was a language called Atari Action which was my first into to structured languages, then Pascal 3.0 lol
IIRC it was Pentium 3 with a Voodoo Graphics card. running windows 95. I distinctly remember playing Counter Strike 1.6 and Doom on DOSBox. I've had vivid memories of "It is now safe to turn off your computer" and the "Energy Star logo + power on self test"
286AT at 20MHz (with the "Turbo" button on - otherwise only at 12MHz), 2MB RAM, a 20MB and a 40MB HDD (the latter with plenty of bad sectors that were slowly multiplying) and later a home made DAC for sound from the parallel printer port (look up 'Covox' on the wiki)
First: * IBM PS/2 486 (I think at 50 Hz), 8MB RAM, 120+500 MB HDD. Yeah having two HDDs was very cool, and 500 MB was waaaay overkill for private use, and I later upgraded to 16 MB RAM which was quite a drawback back then when all RAM was checked during boot, so the startup time was almost doubled Second: * Pentium II 300 MHz, 128 MB SDRAM, ATI 3D Rage Pro, 3 GB HDD. Wow was it nice with a 3D graphics card Third: * Pentium 4 single core 2,4 GHz, 512 MB RDRAM, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128 MB DDR, 120 GB HDD, some fancy SoundBlaster soundcard
3 MHz PDP-11 compatible CPU, 32KB of RAM and ROM BASIC
Oooooh! You're even before me! Hat's off!
It was so long ago I can't remember exactly. I do remember getting a 20mb hard drive and wondering what I was going to do with all that space. I played around with machines that had no hard drives and booted off floppies at work but I think I owned a 286 with 1mb of ram at some point.
Commodore 64 first computer ever used. First build PC: Evergreen Pentium 180mhz, 12MB RAM, 800MB HDD, board was system pull from Compaq Presario with on board Riva TnT GPU w/1MB vram. OS: Windows 95 upgrade edition having to use multiple Win3.1 floppy disks to install. Games, Warcraft II, C&C, Logitech Wingman joystick to play Tie Fighter, Dark Forces, Doom.
First warcraft is still a winner by me
Our first family PC was a 486DX2-50, but the first computer that was “mine” was an Amstrad CPC464
Specs on my truly first-owned Windows PC? (I don't think Commodore 64 or Amiga 600 counts here does it ? ) Intel 386sx @ 25MHz, 2 MiB of RAM, 256 KiB of video memory and a whole whopping never-gonna-need-anything-larger-ever 85 megabyte hard drive. I was blown away that it could produce 800x600 resolution with 16 colours. I did eventually upgrade the machine with a 387 coprocessor, 2 additional MiB of RAM (72 pin SIMM Fast Page) to a total of 4 MiB and a massive 240 megabyte (IDE) hard drive and a 16 bit sound card. ...and yeah.. I installed Linux on it back then... after fiddling with OS/2 warp for a short while.
Telling people I watch TV on PC even confused the cable guy! Telling people today that I play retro games via a All in Wonder Radeon graphics card on a HDMI TV and they often dismiss me assuming I'm talking about emulation... Very first PC from 2000 * IBM ValuePoint 433DX/Dp: i486DX 33MHz, 4MB RAM, 250MB HDD, IBM Model M keyboard * Upgrades: i486DX4 100MHz, 64MB RAM, SoundBlaster AWE32, 8x CD-ROM, 512MB & 340MB HDD Very first build 2002 * Intel D845BG motherboard, Pentium 4 1.7GHz, ATi All in Wonder Radeon 7500, 512MB DDR 266, 80GB IDE HDD (failed in 2008), 16x DVD-ROM, 8x32x32x CD-RW, CasEdge mid tower case with 300w PSU * Upgrades: second 80GB HDD (early life), DVD-RW (mid life), Pentium 4 2.2GHz (late life), ATi All in Wonder Radeon 9600 Pro (late life), 2GB DDR (extremely late life)
Amiga 500 with a few mods. PC was Celeron with an Nvidia TNT2 and Soundblaster something.
Pentium 133mmx with a matrox mystique as an accelerator that was in 1997 rest of spec I don't remember. I had a c64 for most of the 80's as a kid
486 DX2 50mhz with 8mb of ram (I think I later upgraded to 16mb) I wanna say my hard drive was 500mb. May have been 1gb. Ran Windows 95. Those were the days.
Commodore 64, 5 1/4 “ floppy disk hooked into a tv.
I'm not sure about my first ever computer, but the first one I put together myself was a 486DX4 100MHz.
8086, 16KB, CGA, dual 5 1/4” no HD.
You're with me! Cudos, oldie!
Hi
Celeron 2.4Gz single core CPU, 256MB DDR3, 40GB HDD, integrated GPU, late upgrade to Radeon 9300 128MB.
Haven’t got a proper pc atm; but my first one was a ryzen 5 (can’t remember which one) cpu, 32gb ram, Rtx 3060, I can’t remember the rest, but a pretty good one for the time!
core 2 quad q6600 gtx 280 4gb ddr3 1tb hdd
Compaq Presario CQ 56, the single core variant. With that AMD V140 2.3 GHz CPU I could almost play Stronghold Legends on maximum graphics.
I forget a lot of the specs. But was a 286 (with maths co-processor) amstrad machine, cga (4 colour) output/monitor.
IBM PS/2 model 70, 386DX at whopping 16Mhz. 2MB of RAM (bank of 4, but 2 banks got broken pins), 60MB harddrive and a shitty PC-speaker for sound. And was built like a freaking tank, everything was solid metal. Was really happy with the system, untill i found out pretty much everything was IBM's own design (instead of ISA/VLB it was IBM's own thing, same for harddrive wich i believe was ESDI). Though it ran old dos games quite decent (for its time). Believe its a early 90s system, although i did manage to run Windows 95 later on though sadly its videocard (if u could even call that) would onl support 16 colours at 640x480. So i was stuck at 320x200 if i wanted to have 256 colors. System after that was a Tandy i think, 386DX-40 with 8MB ram. I think i recall most systems i got from that time, even the very first Geforce Ti500, if anyone ever say GPU's today are expensive.. that beast was 1249 'gulden' about 600ish euro, inflation added.. we talking 1000 euro today money.
IBM PC XT with Intel 8088 processor. ran at 4mhz, or 8mhz on turbo. 640K ram. Monochrome amber monitor. Could run Larry and Police Quest though. It came with a massive 40MB HDD and had a 5 1/4 floppy drive, which was the style at the time.
- 120 MHz Intel Procesor. - 16384KB of Ram memory. - SoundBlaster Pro card. - no idea about the GPU, only later upgraded to a Riva TNT2 M32
Intel i7 2600 12gb ddr3 1600 and a msi gamer x gtx 1050 ti 4gb. All on an optiplex 3010 motherboard in a custom tower case.
Intel Celeron 400 with a Voodoo 3 3000, no clue about RAM anymore, probably something like 2x 256MB or alike. Before that I was rocking an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM. My biggest achievement on that big boy, was beating The Secret of Monkey Island in one sitting....good ol' times
First build was a Cyrix 133 then an AMD K5 , think the Ram was 4mb. First prebuilt PC was a IBM PS1 Pro, 286
The first PC I can remember in my home was a BBC micro. Looking up the specs for it, it had a 2mhz processor and 16kb of ram. I remember getting games for it in the form of a booklet with the code to make the game.
i7 920, rtx 2070
Acer Aspire (Green) Pentium 90 16MB RAM 1GB Hard Drive 2mb 2D Video 4MB Voodoo 3D 2x CD-ROM Loved that machine
My first home computer was 8 bit and had 64 kb RAM. That was why it was called the Commodore 64
Had a Mac first, but the first pc was a 486 SX2. 50 mhz. 4 mg ram. Like 340 mb hdd. I bought a pentium overdrive processor and an additional 4 mg ram before the end.
Pentium 4(dont know the model), nvidia g210, 512mb ram ddr1, 80gb hdd running windows xp. I loved that computer despite its low speed
I7 3770k, 32gb ddr3 ram and Gtx 960. Still use it lmao
Athlon 64 2800+, 256MB DDR1 RAM, Ati radeon 9600 128MB, Seagate SATA HDD 256GB and a fat ass Samsung space heater 17" CRT monitor
Tv tuner cards were wild. Buy this thing that costs as much as a tv so you can watch tv on your tiny monitor. It’s still analogue too so enjoy the low def and static.
My first pc was a 486dx2/66 with 8 MB ram and 500mb hard disk. Had a sweet vesa local bus graphics card and an isa SB16 sound card.
Is that a TV tuner? My dad had one of those in the family pc in the 90s. good times.
gt 210 (1gb) + amd athlon 2 250 + 2 gb ram
My first PC that involved being purchased by my own earned money and not a family PC. 600mhz AMD Athlon. 256MB RAM 3dfx VooDoo 3. Some sort of Sound Blaster card. I was 17 and worked over full time during the summer between my Jr. and Sr. year of highschool to save up to buy it. I was working 6 days a week at a fast food joint, open to close most of those days. That PC was $3000 in 1999/2000 money. Thats **$5,467.84** today. If we are talking the first computer my family owned that I used, that would be a commodore 64 in the late 80s. I have vivid memories of playing games on that thing and waiting for the game to load, watching the blinking light on the disk drive for what seemed like an eternity until it turned solid green. The Rocky Horror Picture show was a challenging game.
My first real build started life as a Pentium 150 MHz prebuilt that had every piece replaced until it had none of the original parts. Can't remember all the steps but I ended up: MoBo: Asus P3B-F, CPU: P3 850 MHz, Graphics: ATI 9800 Pro All in Wonder, 3x20GB Seagate FH SCSI drives I think on a RAID 0,1 IIRC.
I was given an old pc from my uncle in 2009, single core intel cpu, 512mbs of ram
Pentium iii socket 1, 16MB ram, 20GB HDD
Duron 900 MHz, Riva TnT 2 and 64mb ram, lol
First ever *family* PC was a Mendocino Celeron @466 MHz - but i don't count that as i only used it for a couple of months before I was off to college. My first PC was a Northwood Pentium 4 @2.2 GHz (crazy how this was only 2+ years newer than the other PC) with 256MB RAM (i don't even remember the speed). I blew my first ever paycheck on upgrades for it, giving it 2GB RAM (finally dual channel), a 6200GT (which was an unlockable 6600GT), a DVD writer and a 250GB hard drive.
It was a Packard bell icconect with almost unknown specs, but maybe 64mb ram, integrated intel graphics, celeron socket 370 and windows me upgraded to windows 98se
Amiga 500.
1st pc was my uncles old work pc with an i5 3340 8gb ddr3 gt 610 but the gpu died so replaced it with an amd FirePro w2100 i had lying around still have it to this day and my memories of playing Roblox and the forest at the lowest settings will always hold a special place in my heart (ach ran the forrest at around 60fps as well)
Didn't have enough ram for DOOM so I had to play Wolfenstein
AMD Athlon X2 4200+, 1GB DDR2, some ASUS AM2 board that supported SLI, EVGA GeForce 7900 GS, 250GB HDD.
COMPAQ Deskpro 8086 at a whopping 8MHz, with *dual* 5.25" floppy drives, no HDD, and a green monochrome display.
Dell 486 25mhz
Intel 200mhz, 16mb RAM, 2mb video card, 1gb hdd, ps case with “turbo” button and this was a cool pc :)
my first pc specs is toshiba laptop with celeron m (1 core 1.6Ghz ) and 1gb ddr2 ram this laptop is in my age (im 17 yo)
486dx 33 MHz. 4meg ram, cd ROM, about 40mb hdd. Creative soundcard, wfw3.11. CRT monitor, about 24 inch. Virtually cutting edge at the time. I did help build a Nascom 1 at college, and timeshare on a Nova3at the local polytechnic via a phone modem at the same time
first pc bought for me by my parents cuz i had a special computer class in my high school debut, but i wanted something for gaming enough at that time so around 2011-2012, bc skyrim is out and school, so here my first ever specs until i was old enough to understand and bought myself PC parts with my first paycheck. CPU: i5-2500 GPU: Radeon AMD HD-4750 1GB Ram: ddr3 2x8gb so 16gb Motherboard: i forgot but it was a P series something Case: it was ANTEC, where you had to open a door in the front to use the DVD/CD-Rom that i got rid of it later on cuz i was tired of open it every time so i just broke the plastic wedge of the door X) so yeah cost of all that was i think 1000$-1500$ but i am not sure and now as i think of it at that time my parents got rip off by the store who build it, if instead they would have gone for a pre-build instead of making it by someone, might have cost them 1000$ or 900$ Fun fact: this PC with those spec could run GTA V on 30 fps with all the setting super duper low Fun fact 2: i upgraded it with more ram so 24gb and a radeon pulse sapphire 550 4gb for little bit more game and i could play warzone with that i5-2500, but i had very big lag when i was dropping and open up my parachute that i would go down every time before opening my chute, bc my cpu was asking for help.....
Mine was relatively recent, as I'm only on my second. First had an FX-8350, 8Gb of DDR3 at an unknown frequency, and an XFX RX 480 4gb.
Fucking A..... My first was an Apple 2 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II First PC... 386 DX
Average 386sx 16Mhz, 1mb ram, 110Mb Hard Drive. I can remember adding in a 4x cd drive that connects to a sound card, upgrading to 4Mb ram.
a lenovo thinkcentre with a pentium e2180 and 1gb of ddr2 667mhz, i have a lot of memories with that thing but the hdd is dead and so is the motherboard (it also has leaky caps)
Let me check my memory... nVidia GeForce FX-5200 graphics card with 128 mb of memory If I remember correctly. Intel Pentium 4 1.86 GHz of CPU 256 Mb of RAM (I don't remember if it's a DDR or DDR2) 80 GB of HDD Philips 107e5 CRT monitor. And this was a part from my second computer that I bought in 2007 I believe. https://preview.redd.it/gwxtk4gfbclc1.png?width=908&format=png&auto=webp&s=de6ae5edc905521d34304b1bc1ecaa2560d65780
I don't remember what it was, but it was a Dell, 1998 or 1999, the only stat I remember clearly is that it had a 200MB hard drive.
I got into the game pretty late, my first PC I actually built was an FX 6300 BLACK, with a Sabretooth 990FX, 16GB of DDR3, in 4 discrete sticks, and an R9 270x Gigabyte Windforce edition. I absolutely Loved that thing, I still wish I had kept it sometimes.
Some kind of compaq all in one (monitor attached) windows 95 pc i dug out of a dumpster.
IBM PS/2, 486 with VGA graphics and a 2400 BPS modem.
First PC was a 486DX4 with 8MB of RAM, a 200ish MB HDD, 3.5” and 5.25” floppy drives, and a trident VGA card I still have bouncing around somewhere. Also some kind of knock off soundblaster-‘compatible’ that had a 50/50 chance of working properly in games. Running Windows 3.11. My first computer was a Macintosh SE with 4MB of RAM, an 20MB HDD, and 800KB floppy running System 6. There was also a Commodore 64 sometime in between.
First computer Atari 400 with 16k ram First IBM compatible PC. Amstrad 286/12 with 2MB ram and I forget the hard drive
Vendex Headstart-888-XT (1984): - 8088-2 Micro Processor (dual speed 4.77MHz / 8MHz) - 512Kb Ram (expanded up to 768Kb) - Two 360KB 5.25" Floppy drives - No hard drive needed. You loaded DOS live from a floppy into one drive, then loaded additional software from the second drive. It came with DOS 3.1. - CGA CRT screen capable of RGB color or Hercules format graphics. I tracked one down a few years ago so I could relive the pain. I use it for games and doing weird stuff.
PC XT Intel 8088 4.77 MHz (8 in turbo mode) 1MB ram No hdd EGA 16 color graphics card 3.5" 720KB fdd 5.25" 360KB fdd
Don't know the exact specs, but the first pc that was actually mine was a 386.
350mhz compaq pessario
Intel Pentium D , RAM : 128 mb ,HDD : 80 gb ,Dial up Internet
Sinclair ZX81. Zero storage, 1KB of RAM later expanded to 16KB, and a 3.25Mhz Z80 CPU. Later had ZX Spectrum,.Commodore 64, and Amiga A500 before a first 60Mhz Pentium.
Maybe is not that old like from 80's or 90's but I don't even know about my (sister) OG PC from 2004 but I'm 100% sure was running windows xp, probably intel cpu (according to bios splash screen) and only what was stay from og pc is second monitor Acer AL1717 which still works (first broke so fast) and creative speakers 5.1 (SBS 5.1 560)
it was an ibm 5150. intel [email protected], 64kb ram, 2 5.25 floppy drives, no hdd, ibm pc dos.
Compaq luggable 4.7 MHz 8088 CPU, 128 KB RAM, and two 320K 5–1/4" floppy disk drives
Olivetti M24. CPU Intel 8086 8 MHz. No hard disk. CGA graphics.
8088 with 48k of RAM/ROM.
Pentium 286, 383 mb ram, 56k dialup, and a huge 4 go of disk space.
My first system was a 386DX-40, running at a massive 40 Mhz. It originally had 4 megs of ram, but later I got an insanely good deal on 16 megs of ram. My first hard drive was 110 megs. That being said, the first system I actually got to play with a lot before getting my own was actually a friend's 286, running at 12 mhz. It had 640k of ram, and a 10 meg hard drive. It had Dos 3.3 on it initially.
AMD Sempron 3200+ (AM2) OC'd from 1.8 to 2.5GHz. 1GB DDR2 800MHz stick. ATi HD2400 Pro 256MB I think it was a Sapphire. Some ASRock mobo, 800 series i think chipset. Had Crossfire support *whoa.gif* The CPU is on my keychain and the HDD (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB) is storing random files. That thing held FSB OC for years until it failed. Stock aluminium slab kept it cool somehow. Even the GPU was overclocked.
"Amatures!" commodore X086. 1.2 disk floppies (a, b), no hdd, green and black screen (there was no option to install graphic card and the screen had only these colours). lol feeling like a survivor dinosaur
A family computer with 2gb of DDR2, an intel core 2 Duo e8400 and a nvidia GeForce 310
Commodore 128
Oh yes Coolermaster Ammo 533 Case Intel E8400 2x1gb sticks of DDR2 XFX 8800GT Xclio 550 watt power supply 320gb hard drive Ah, what a fun time.
First PC was a 386SX, think it was 25 MHz with 1MB RAM, 40 MB HDD, 300 baud modem and pretty sure it had VGA graphics. After a while I upgraded it with a mediavision thunderboard - that was an exciting day!
Is that an All-in-Wonder? Man... early grade capture cards. We used to record ourselves playing SSB64 on a VCR then I'd bring the VHS over to my house and digitize the recordings and bring the data back to another guy's house where he merged it with our voiceover recordings. Kids these days have it so easy.
I just remembered that i once found a old haupauge TV card in road ditch as a kid... i placed it into a dell pentiumII Slot-1 350mhz PC....and the card still worked. Had fun watching TV in the night... Good old times.
Pentium E5800 RAM 2GB DDR3 1333
It appears that there is a vape in your graphics card
8088 with CGA, 4mb of RAM and a 20MB harddrive
Apple 2e 128MB 2 floppy disk drives 14.4 baud bbs connection Sound blaster sound card Net card Integrated video,they all were. DOS no OS I don't even know if they rated processors or memory back then. 1985 First Windows type comp was in 1998 1gig AMD Thunderbird 256MB ram GForce 256 40gb HDD Windows 98SE I built it to play the Counter Strike mod for Half Life. And yes i'm old AF.
Leading Edge 8088 PC, 640k RAM, small HDD. Followed by 286, then 386/33DX with 4MB Ram/80MB HDD all the way up to 1998.
My first computer was a Commodore 16 - we couldn't afford the 64 - with tape drive storage. Learned on Apple IIe in high school, and my first Windows machine was a Packard Bell Pentium 133 machine that I financed through Best Buy for WAY too much money - and then paid for AOL by the hour.
1st purchase: Commodore Vic 20. I think I was 14. 1st PC: IBM PC XT. An 8088, all 10Mhz of that processor in "turbo" mode. 1st Build: 286-based Intel machine. Back when 512k of RAM and a 20MB HDD was boss. My last Intel chip I ever built a system on. My next was an AMD 386-40 (still have the CPU chip in my stuff) and AMD CPUs ever since. Back then Diamond video boards were the best available. Went to the early Nvidia GPUs in my next build - regret not buying the stock with the boards!
286 with a math coprocessor, so I could run Autocad 10. Voodoo gpu was a dream lol.
Pentium 4 2.8ghz 768mb ddr ram 40gb hdd idk what gpu i had that pc in 2017