Classic System Thread!!! Post Specs!

[KarsinTheHutt]

The first serious rig I worked on was a Gateway 4DX-33V in Dec. 1992 (I was 11, almost 12)

33 MHz 486DX
8 MB 70ns DRAM, 64K L2 Cache
250 MB HDD
1 MB ATI VESA Local Bus graphics
1x CDROM!!!
Aztec sound card
15" CrystalScan monitor
Windows 3.1

Cost of $2800... but wow did it kick arse!!! Kings Quest 6 ran like a dream Oh yeah, the local bus graphics blew away everyone elses systems... heh, the winmark scores were nice.

 

[TunaBoo]

My first rig I bout like 5 years ago with the money I had.

486 - 66 with 8 megs ram and 1 gig HD <- auction from my dads work, 25$

it came with a 16 color 13 inch monitor. Baaaaad. So I went to a computer show and bought a 15 inch &quot;Komodo&quot; for $99. Worst monitor I ever owned. Never worked worth crap, and curved like 20 degrees. However it works somewhat now, and my GF is using it (slowly going blind I imagine).

I also bought a seperate 8 speed cd-rom which sucked and never spun up right for like 50 or so. A local computer store sold me a 1 meg video card so I could make use of my new monitor. It was one of those funk cards - ISA with a little brown slot at the end of it. Also bought a 33.6 modem pretty cheap, it is hardware and still works (have it in my dell p3 450 for emergencies).

In any case this comp sucked. I only had win95 on floppy disks, and reinstalling was horrible. I played diablo1 on bnet a lot (i was under sys req's so I lagged everyone so much hehe).

Mostly I played net games like U-Planet and earth2025. Man I miss U-Planet ;(

 

[gygheyzeus]

I'm a newbie to the whole tech. thing. I'm 17 now, and only built my first computer when i was 15.

PIII 600 Katmai
128MB CAS3 PC100 ram
13.6GB Maxtor ATA66 HD
19 Inch ViewSonic PS790 Monitor (still in my main system)
Voodoo3 3000agp
Asus 440bx board (cant remember model number)
Altec Lansing ADA880R speakers/sub (still in my main system)
Asus 50x cd-rom (still in my main system)
SB Live! (RMA, got a SB Live platinum for free )

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

kewl... as a kid I always wanted to buy my own system, but I never had the cash. Never paid for an entire system until this year - $520 for a Dell Latitude CPi P2-266.

Oh, I forgot my dad's old AT and T.

??? MHz 8086
640K RAM
20 MB HDD
10&quot; green-screen

 

[irongate]

OK how about 386SX (I think 16MHz)
4MB of RAM
20 MB HD
80MB FULL Height HD
and then the two floppies (originally 2 5.25&quot; one was later replaced though with a 3.5&quot

Used mostly for typing in DisplayWrite 4 (Version 2). Still remember the executable name (dw4v2) and I think the key for paginate and save was F4 but I could be wrong.

 

[Mixxen]

Sept 94 $2600 (I still have the receipt)

Gateway2k P5-60
8 Meg o ram
730 meg HD
2 meg STB Tseng W32P PCI
Sound Blaster Vibra
2x CDROM
14.4 USRobotics Telepath
15&quot; CrystalScan Still working too
Win 3.11 &amp; Dos 6.22

Xwing, Doom, Doom2, Duke3d was the sh!ts on that rig...well at the time...

 

[RayH]

1980
Apple II Plus
Motorola 6502 (1MHz)
48K ram upgraded to 64K
5.25&quot; floppy drive (143K) hacked w/manual write protect override switch to write on backside of floppys w/o punching holes
280x192 video
12&quot; amber monitor and rf modulator to 13&quot; color tv
tons of classic games

I haven't turned it on in over 15 years but it would be worth it just to see those games again.

 

[rudder]

Atari 800 - 16K of Ram (upgraded to 64K)
Dual cartridge slot
16 colors I think
Blazing fast cassette drive (upgraded to 5.25&quot; floppy several months later)

This thing is still at my moms house. It worked last time I plugged it in. I've got tons of games for the thing. A few cartridged like wizard or wor and star raiders. Most are on floppie disk, that were only designed to last at most ten years. Next time I visit I will play some games!

 

[Noriaki]

Discluding my Commodore 64 I played games on when I was 8, my first rig was in late '95 early '96.

I had
486 dx2 66Mhz
8MB 33Mhz EDO RAM
540MB hard drive
4x CDRom
Integrated ISA/VLB I/O controller. Hard drive, LPT, COM ports as well as a 1MB frame buffer (that's where the VLB comes in). It was made by Western Digital.
SB Pro2 16bit
15&quot; monitor (I rocked )
14.4 kbps modem (I REALLY rocked )

I was sadly enough the envy of my neighbours

 

[sciencewhiz]

12 mhz 286
2mb of ram
512k OAK VGA graphics card
40mb MFM hard drive
5 1/4&quot; floppy
14&quot; hitachi monitor
DOS something or other

I think we got this in '89 for about $2000

 

[nakedfrog]

well, when i was 5 or 6, we got
Apple IIc
second FDD
10&quot; green-screen monochrome (but we could hook it up to the TV for color)
still works to this day, but the joystick port has been jacked for years

next computer was
Packard Bell (ICK)
486SX33
4MB RAM
Local Bus Video
245MB HDD
the christmas after we got it, also got a 1X CDROM -- took me HOURS to get it working under DOS/Win3.1

 

[Ipno]

I actually had a Zenith Boatanchor.

386 DX 25 with i387 coprocessor.
4 megs ram
150 meg ESDI hard drive


Thing weighed a ton. But it ran my BBS 24x7 from 1991-1995 with no problems.

I guess when it has as much iron as a tank, it tends to run like one. Slow, but steady.

 

[NesuD]

Televideo
with an 8088 cpu don't remember the clock on those anymore
10 meg hdd 5 1/4 floppy
Hercules cga graphics
256k ram

 

[Wiggo100]

Got it given to me when I was 36.
386 DX 33mhz
4MB ram
42MB HHD
512k VGA
1 5.25 and 1 3.5 floppies
14&quot; VGA monitor
I upgraded it to a
AMD 586 133mhz
64MB ram
4.2g HHD
4MB SIS PCI VGA
40x CD rom
1 3.5 floppy
SB16 sc
but kept the monitor.
The mother in law now uses it for word processing/internet and email.

 

[johnny1111]

Not all that long ago, but the first PC I built and thus really started to learn about hardware was:

P2 333Mhz
ASUS 440LX mobo
64 megs PC100
13Gb HD
8meg ATI Agp
Hitachi 2X DVD
LS 120
Sound blaster Live Value
Modem Blaster 56k modem

Soon afterwards I upgraded to

Asus P3B-F
P2 450
128 Megs PC100
Pioneer 104s DVD
ATI 32 meg Rage Fury
30 Gb HD
D Link 10/100 Ethernet + broadband

Still have that system (with a little more ram and some other mods), bought a Dell I8000 notebook recently. I plan on building new desktop using some of my old hardware, new system will be in the 1gig + club. -john

 

[chaotic]

I'm still using a PPro 120MHz with 40MB RAM as a backroom linux file server...

2-15GB Maxtor 7200RPM HDD
1-6GB Maxtor 7200RPM(I think) HDD
2MB S3 Virge video

I'm also thinking about using the 5 486sx-25's that I have lying here as a linux cluster (no ambition to do it yet tho')

 

[Workin']

First &quot;IBM compatible&quot; PC was thus:

'386SX 16 MHz (had to agonize between spending more $$ for 32-bit CPU vs 12 MHz '286, glad I chose the '386, even though it was &quot;crippled&quot; relative to '386DX, which was $300 more expensive)
1 full megabyte of RAM (upgraded from 640k)
Giant 40 megabyte HD (upgraded from 20MB)
256k Trident VGA (upgraded from EGA)
14&quot; VGA (640x480 max) monitor
5.25 and 3.5 floppies
Citizen 24-pin dot-matrix printer

NO modem or mouse. DOS 3.something. Paid $2200 (ouch). Everything but the hard drive still works great.

 

[crab]

Am386DX 33mhz
AMI Motherboard
4mb 30-pin SIMMs
2 100MB MAXTOR IDE HDDs
Compaq IDE Controller
256k C&amp;T ISA video
14&quot; AAMAZING VGA monitor


paid $750

 

[Schola]

Intel 486Dx2 50mhz
8mb Ram
500mb HDD + 850mb HDD
512k Cirrus Logic VLB
2x cdrom
sound blaster
15&quot; CTX SVGA monitor
Windows 3.1 + Dos 6.22

Cost like 3000 or something

 

[LXi]

AMD 386DX 40MHz
4MB RAM
5.25&quot; floppy
3.5&quot; floppy
250MB hdd
Trident 512k VGA
2x CD-ROM
Zoltrics 16bit soundblaster compatible
14&quot; Multicolor
DOS 6.0 w/Windows 3.1

 

[Dulanic]

My first own PC I bought (Yes I bought it) when I was 11. It was a Packard Hell

486 DX 25Mhz
4MB RAM (Paid $170 later to upgrade it to 8)
4800 Built In Modem
1MB Cirrus Logic video card
14&quot; Packard Hell Monitor that broke 4 times.
100 something MB HD
2X CD-Rom
Some SB soundcard.

First and last Intel system I owned.

 

[Journeyman]

Discounting the Apple II+ and the TI-99/4a...

A 286 8mhz, 1 meg ram, Hercules monochrome graphics card, 20MB HDD, 360k floppy. Had a good 'ol amber monochrome monitor.

 

[411sponge]

Man I feel old!! But, here it goes:

Tandy 1000EX
8088 8 Mhz processor
4 MB RAM
No hard drive
5 1/4 inch floppy drive (I hated constantly swaping the disks!!)
12 &quot; CGA monitor

I rememeber the old Space Quest and Police Quest games! Memories!!

 

[Joony]

Packard Bell

Pentium 200 Non MMX
16 MB EDO SIMM
2.1 GIG seagate HD
Intergrated S3 ViRGE 2MB
16X Goldstar CD
Aztec sound card 33.6 modem combo
Packard Bell 15' 1020 monitor
Windows 95 OSR2

$2000 bucks for that POS at best buy on November of 1997

ran starcraft like a charm...

 

[Sham]

The IBM compatible PC I had and assembled was back in 1989 I believe. I used Computer Shopper(back when it was phone book size) to find vendors to order the parts from.


286-12Mhz
1 mb ram
256k Oak vga card(8 bit isa)
Adlib sound card
5.25&quot; 1.2 mb floppies
DOS 3.3

I thought I was in heaven, playing JNUG, Test Drive(the first one), and too many more to list, all from floppy. I didn't get a harddrive until the original Wing Commander came out and required one. I bought a used 20 mb drive.