What were the spec's of your very first PC

2010-08-23 17:03:53

#51

-Sh1fty-: plundering yee booty; +510|5470|Ventura, California

Intel Pentium 4 3.00GHz
1GB RAM
NVIDIA Geforce 7600GS 128mb
200GB Hard drive
ASUS P5B motherboard
Windows XP Home edition 32bit

Crazy looking back at all of these old rigs.

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2010-08-23 17:26:41

#52

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6768|PNW

Epic bump.

For a desktop PC: Compaq Presario CDS 833, if I recall. I think the CPU was a 486DX 33MHz. Tabworks interface over Windows 3.1 or 3.11. The rest I can't recall at the moment. Used consoles long before that. It got me into PC gaming, but was not worth the parental-mandated trade-in of all my consoles to cover a pittance of the thing's price. You can tell by my very presence here how successful that scheme was to get me to stop playing video games.

I even remember having wanted a Mac instead, because it was what I was used to at school.

2010-08-23 17:33:15

#53

loubot: O' HAL naw!; +470|6575|Columbus, OH

my very first pc was a Gateway 2000. Pentium (586) processor 133MHz, 128MB RAM (EDO), 32 or 64MB PCI video card by a manufacturer that was bought out by Nvidia, Creative Lab's original sound blaster, U.S. Robotic's 56k modem, 8x CD ROM player, 17" crt monitor, windows 95

2010-08-23 17:41:26

#54

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6494

AT&T 486 dx (66Mhz)
4mb ram
800mb hdd
9600 baud modem
wfw 3.11

2010-08-23 18:01:57

#55

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5354|London, England

First PC was a 286. This was about twenty years ago so I have nfc what the specs were.

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2010-08-23 18:03:06

#56

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5354|London, England

unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Epic bump.

For a desktop PC: Compaq Presario CDS 833, if I recall. I think the CPU was a 486DX 33MHz. Tabworks interface over Windows 3.1 or 3.11. The rest I can't recall at the moment. Used consoles long before that. It got me into PC gaming, but was not worth the parental-mandated trade-in of all my consoles to cover a pittance of the thing's price. You can tell by my very presence here how successful that scheme was to get me to stop playing video games.

I even remember having wanted a Mac instead, because it was what I was used to at school.

We had Commodore 64's at school Then it was the Apple IIe.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2010-08-23 18:12:32

#57

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6519|...

I lernt BASIC on it ...

Processor: Rockwell 6502 (1.79 MHz)
RAM: 16K
ROM 10K
Storage: Cassette Tape
Expansion: 1 cartridge slots, 2 well protected memory slots and a daisy-chainable expansion bus
Video: Up to 320x192x16 color composite video or TV out standard and much higher resolutions and color depths with low-level programming

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2010-08-23 18:13:24

#58

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6127|Carnoustie MASSIF

Jesus... now you're asking. It was a Mac God knows what the specs were. The second PC we got was something ridiculously weak, I remember it had a 3GB HDD though, then we got a Voodoo 2 for it, damn the frame rates in Half Life when through the roof.

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2010-08-23 18:14:10

#59

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5354|London, England

Aside from jsnipy, this thread makes me feel old.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2010-08-23 18:15:37

#60

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6127|Carnoustie MASSIF

JohnG@lt wrote:
Aside from jsnipy, this thread makes me feel old.

jsnipy makes me feel incredibly young. So does Burnzz

2010-08-23 18:19:49

#61

wheelsup@7: Yeah still here; +49|6636|Pennsylvania

FTW radio shack TRS 80. Dam I'm old. I actually remember using a tape cassette player to load programs LoL

2010-08-23 18:26:57

#62

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6494

wheelsup@7 wrote:
FTW radio shack TRS 80. Dam I'm old. I actually remember using a tape cassette player to load programs LoL

i remember those, my neighbor had one

i bought the 486 when i was 28. it cost $3200

2010-08-23 18:29:42

#63

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,810|6102|eXtreme to the maX

Um
~1993
Macintosh LC 4/80
4Meg Ram
80 Meg HD
External 1G HD

~1995
486
~256 Meg Ram?
~4Gig HD? Was very small...

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2010-08-23 18:41:06

#64

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|6840|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Pentium III 600 MHz
512MB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400
12GB HDD.

2010-08-23 19:35:36

#65

Ty: Mass Media Casualty; +2,398|6771|Noizyland

My first computer was an Amstrad. I have no idea what the specs were but I'm pretty sure I have more RAM and disk space in my $10 digital watch.

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2010-08-23 20:04:04

#66

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6508|Gold Coast

My first computer was:

P4 2Ghz
1GB RAM
80GB HDD
Nvidia Geforce FX5200

I feel like a complete noob compared to everyone else in this thread.

Although, back in the day when my dad worked at EA, he got a free copy of MOHAA two weeks before its release and brought a computer home with it... it had a PII processor, so the game didnt work. Went back to work the next day and brought a PIII processor'd computer... didnt work. Then got the above spec'd PC and used that until 2007.

Before that, however, my family used a bunch of PCs. Not sure of the exact specs, but I refer to them as the Windows 95 computer and the Windows 98 computer... so many memories...

noice

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2010-08-23 20:50:41

#67

Reciprocity: Member; +721|6577|the dank(super) side of Oregon

First PC:
P4 3.0Ghz
1GB RAM
WD 200GB HDD
ATI 9800pro

Very first 'puter was a Mac SE, then Mac LC- Performa 5200- iMac. last Mac was a Powerbook G3 Pismo.

2010-08-23 20:54:33

#68

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6564|NYC / Hamburg

The original Apple Macintosh

8MHz Motorola 68000
128KB ram
nothing in the way of HDDs or GPUs

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2010-08-23 21:24:53

#69

rdx-fx: ...; +955|6588

1982-83(?)
Apple II
1MHz 6502 processor, 64KB memory

Spent 1982 to 1986 playing with Apple II assembly language.

2010-08-23 22:49:48

#70

=NHB=Shadow: hi; +322|6362|California

some IBM back in 1995
played starcraft on it when 1998 came around

2010-08-24 00:56:17

#71

RDMC: Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!; +736|6561|Area 51

The first one I totallly bought myself is my current PC:

E8400 + OCZ Vendetta II
HD4870
GA-X48-DQ6
750 Spinpoint F1
4 GB OCZ PC6400

However, before this I partially bought my computer own (My parents and I both payed half) so I think that counts too.

AMD Athlon 3800+
nVidia 7600GT
2GB GEIL PC6400 (Later upgraded to 4GB)
200GB Samsung something (Later added a second)
Some MSI Mainboard.

That PC is responsible for most of my gaming time on BF2

2010-08-24 01:46:19