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What was your first ever PC?

Mine was a :
486dx2 8MHz (16 with Turbo!!)
a whopping 2Mb RAM (extended later with another 2Mb)
20 MB HDD
a soundblaster 16 audio card (or soundcard)
cannot remember videocard, but should be very basic.

So what was yours?

How can you remember all that?

(10-28-2009, 08:47 AM)`Sharan Wrote: [ -> ]How can you remember all that?

Hehe... I just have a very good memory, plus it was super special back then. Birthday present when I turned seven. Later on I got a 166MHz, 10Mb memory RAM, and a 16Mb videocard. WOW ;)

(10-28-2009, 08:57 AM)Guerreiro Wrote: [ -> ]Hehe... I just have a very good memory, plus it was super special back then. Birthday present when I turned seven. Later on I got a 166MHz, 10Mb memory RAM, and a 16Mb videocard. WOW ;)

Heh, sounds a lot like my first PC

I think mine was a pentium, 128mb ram, and 10gb hdd.. Or something along them lines, i didn't have a P.C for quite some time because i was more of a console gamer to be honest.

The only one I can remember is a white one :S

As I was too young to know any of the stuff I know now... I have no idea what the specs are!

The oldest computer I have ever used was a Packard Bell with 8 mb's of ram and 120 mb hdd.

My first pc i got was purchased in bits and i built it myself.
1.8 gig processor
512 ram
128 meg graphics
120 gig harddrive

Yes you will notice by the stats i am not very long into computers.
The first OS i ever used was XP lol. SO yea im not that long into them at all. Guess thats why i struggle so much

(10-28-2009, 08:31 AM)Guerreiro Wrote: [ -> ]What was your first ever PC?

Mine was a :
486dx2 8MHz (16 with Turbo!!)
a whopping 2Mb RAM (extended later with another 2Mb)
20 MB HDD
a soundblaster 16 audio card (or soundcard)
cannot remember videocard, but should be very basic.

So what was yours?

Probably a no-name, generic grey box, Circa round about 1996, with a 486 processor I think, Windows 98,
and maybe 2 or 4 MB RAM, later upgraded to 8 MB, with a 20 GB HD I believe.

I have still got it, but in my brother's attic, a few miles away.
Hmm, I wonder what is on it now?

A Soundblaster compatible, soundcard, with quite a basic graphics card,
but probably not TrueColor, but most likely Highcolor, something that I installed myself, along with the soundcard.

BTW - I did find a PC in the street one time, in the pouring rain.
When I picked it up, quite a lot of water drained out of the holes
at the rear of it.

I carried it home, but it was really heayweight, opened it up, (it had a double kind of 'shell', if you can call it that,
with an inner metal case, as well as the outer metal case), and dried it out, using a hairdryer, then left it overnight, before switching it on.

Wow! It was a massive 25 MHz, If I remember correctly, with an equally low amount of RAM.
I don't think it was Windows though, it didn't seem to have any type of GUI, just a black screen with text I think.

The PC itself, contained somebody's financial details, among other things, but I didn't look at everything.

I think that I still have that PC as well somewhere...;)

I had a Timex Sinclair 1000 with the added ram 16k (yes that's K) and a cassette drive. We bought it at J&R in NYC and I was very excited. I was about 11 years old.