What was your first desktop PC?

[Carl Lawrence]

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.

 

[maceman]

My first personal computer was Commodore 128

Commodore 128 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[tuckeratlarge]

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.

 

[alphanumeric]

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.

 

[Francis93]

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

 

[bagavan]

128 MB ram
8 MB onboard graphics
8 GB HDD
433MHz processor

 

[gladson1976]

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.

 

[pparks1]

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).

 

[Kirsch]

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

 

[Darician]

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.

 

[LittleMiss]

Released:1982Price:US $1595.Weight:26 lbsCPU:2 Zilog Z80, 2.5 MHzRAM:64KDisplay:9" green phosphor screen.24 X 80 text onlyPorts:Serial portParallel portStorage:Two internal 5-1/4"SS-DD 195K drivesOS:CP/M, SBASIC

NO HDD!!!

i think this was the first "dual core" well you did have 2 processors

 

[Mind Game]

I remember mines being a Compaq Presario.

 

[johnwillyums]

I was gifted an unknown beige box, monitor and keyboard which was a friend's son's cast off. Just 9 years ago.
I did not know how to see what was inside at that stage so don't know the spec.
However it baulked at XP x64 and I kept getting mail offering ways to enlarge my organ of regeneration etc.
I'm amazed it didn't put me off because it was so unreliable, riddled with malware, virii etc that it was virtually unusable.
I went straight from there to a custom built Vista x64 pc and I've been hooked ever since

 

[Prisoner]

Dell Dimension 4500.

Released in 2002 or 2003 I think. I can't remember.
18 gig hard drive. 128 megabytes of RAM, later upgraded to 1 gig. 32Mb onboard graphics. Onboard sound. 17" monitor. 1.8Ghz P4. Windows XP. I'm still on that machine, and I am typing this with it. It's a very reliable system.

 

[pparks1]

I'm confused by your specs. you say, Dell Latitude D600 which is a laptop, but under case you say Dell Dimension 4500 case...which is a desktop. So, are you listing specs from 2 different machines?

 

[Prisoner]

Yup. The laptop was my primary system until the hard drive crashed on it, and I haven't bothered to update the information since it happened.

 

[A Guy]

Dell Dimension 4600 for Home (Pentium 4 2.80GHz, 512MB, 80GB) Desktop reviews - CNET Reviews

Was my PC until I got this one. But by time I was done, it had 3.4GHz Pentium 4 w/ HT, 2.5 GHz Ram, 2 hard drives, GT5200 GPU, 450W PSU, etc. Still works good, sitting in the closet waiting for chance, lol.

But before that it was a Webtv Sony INT-W250 Still using it, chatting w/ LittleMiss



A Guy

 

[andsome]

My first was a cast off from my son when he bought a new on. It was an old DAN. I seem to remember that it had 32MB of memory.

 

[strollin]

My first desktop was an IBM PC in 1984. 4.77Mhz 8088 CPU, 256K of RAM, 2 DSDD 360K floppy drives and 4 color CGA graphics. Cost around $2500 with my employee discount!

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Compaq Presario Media Center SR2030NX Desktop PC

Bought it in late 2006. Currently duel booting XP & Vista thanks to the helpful Tutorial Section of this forum