Hello guys,
What was your first desktop PC? Mine was a Custom PC bulit by Active Computers in Bexhill-on-Sea.
The specs were:
500Mhz P3
7GB Hard-drive
3MB On-board Graphics
On-board Sound
15" Mointor
32RAM (later 96RAM)
Windows 98 (later Windows ME)
56K Dialup Modem.
My first personal computer was Commodore 128 :)
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My first desktop PC was an Amstrad PC2286 with an 8Mhz 286, 640k Ram, 25Mb Hard Drive, and DOS with DOSShell.
The funniest thing was the inclusion of Windows 1 on floppy disc. It was too slow to run it and failed to install because of the lack of speed. Yet it was included in the package. It did however, have an excellent manual with it giving a detailed look at DOS commands.
I think it was a 486DX clocked at 33MHz with 8 meg of RAM and a 200 meg hard drive. A sound blaster 16 ISA card and an ATI Mach 32 ISA card. Don't remember who made the motherboard, all it had was 6 ISA slots and no onboard anything except the keyboard port. I had to add a multi IO card just to hook up a floppy and hard drive. MSDos 6.2 and windows 3.1.
I had my first desktop computer in 2004 and came with Windows 98 until we upgraded the OS to XP eventually lol
Processor: Intel Celeron
Memory: 512MB RAM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce MX4000
Hard Disk: 80GB Hard disk
Motherboard: ASUS
Monitor: AOC 17" CRT 1024x768
Sound Card: Realtek
Internet: 56k Dial-Up Modem
128 MB ram
8 MB onboard graphics
8 GB HDD
433MHz processor
My first PC was a ZX Spectrum
After that it was a custom built 486 DX2 @ 33Mhz (Turbo at 66 Mhz) with 8MB RAM, 40MB HDD, Yamaha OPL3-SAx Sound Card, 14" B/W Monitor, 3 1/4 and 5 1/2 Floppy drives, MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 & 3.11.
Added a 4X CD Drive later on.
Aside from Commodores and such that my dad had around growing up, my first actual PC that I took to college with me was an 8088 from a company called Leading edge. My upgrade from that was to a Packard Bell 486-SX25 with 4MB of RAM and a 170MB connor hard drive and 2x cdrom drive (which was the fastest cdrom at the time).
Compaq Presario 5020
- 333 MHz Intel Celeron MMX Processor
- 3.2 GB Hard Disk Drive
- 2 MB ATI Technologies Rage LT Pro Graphics Card
- 2 x USB 1.1 Ports
- 15" Compaq Presario MV500 CRT Monitor
- 56K Dial-Up Modem
- JBL Stereo Speakers
- Game Joystick Port
- Multimedia Keyboard & Mouse
- 24x LG CD-ROM drive
Intel Pentium (I) 200 Mhz w/MMX Technology
64 MB RAM
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Video Card w/4 MB of Video RAM
24X CD-ROM Drive
Windows 95
US Robotics 56K V90 Modem
(2) 2.0 GB Hard Drives
Labtec Computer Speakers
It was a brand called Datacom West. I think it was local or something because I bought it used from someone. Also gave me an Okidata Laser Printer (B&W). I remember I used to think how cool I was with this computer; especially after I upgraded its video card to the 3dfx Voodoo3 3000.
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