Post the specs of the first PC you ever owned....

[Thor86]

UniSys IBM compatible XT with a 12" amber monochrome monitor. Can't really remember the specs inside though. It was a hand-me-down for school, but I bought myself this a year afterwards...

486DX2/66mhz
256k cache
8mb RAM
350mb Hddisk
2mb video
15 inch SVGA monitor
SB AWE32 ISA sound card

Played the original Doom and DoomII great!

 

[GimpyOne]

Ahhhh yes, the old PCjr

8088 4.7mhz
172k ram (had the 128k expansion block, a 1x4x12in cartridge that plugged into the side)
5 1/4 floppy
2 cardridge slots (mouser was the best!)
16 colors at 640x200
and a wireless infrared keyboard (worked great for me)

The only downside was no dma for the bitty hard drive. So when typing, any time the computer had to write from memory to disk it took 100% of the processor. Lots of typos.

 

[alfa147x]

pentuim 233
5x cd
10.~ gb hardisk
256 mb ram

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Radio Shack TRS-80 with the optional cassette drive, then I hit the bigtime with an IBM XT at 4.77mhz and a 10mb HDD

 

[Woody419]

My first PC was a Kaypro II I bought on July 16, 1990 for $150. The Kaypro 2 had two 5.25 double density floppy drives and no hard drive. The Kaypro uses a Z80 microprocessor running at 2.5 MHz and has 64K bytes of RAM, a 9-inch (diagonal) green-phosphor video screen that displays 24 lines of 80 characters, and used the CP/M programing language. The computer came with Wordstar, Datastar, CalcStar, and SpellStar, all written by Microsoft (!).

 

[Genx87]

BrandC Tailors
Proc: Intel 486 DX 33Mhz
Ram: 4MB
HD: 170 MB WD
Video: Tseng 5000
Modem: 9600 bps

The funny thing is my dad is still using the case, KB, and mouse from that machine we got in 1992. Now it is a K6-3 400, 512MB, 12GB total HD, and an Nvidia GF2MX.

 

[J Heartless Slick]

Brand: Kehtron
CPU: PII 286
RAM: ?
Floppy A: 5.25"
Floppy B: 3.5"
HD: 40 meg
Monitor: 15" VGA(?)

Well, I did have a Radio Shack "computer", TRS 64?, before the IBM clone. But it was more a toy than anything else....

 

[CheerUpEmoKid]

lol i dont even remember the specs of my first pc. all i know is that it was in DOS and had no speakers. the only thing i used it for was pacgirl and hangman

 

[wseyller]

Packard Bell

200mhz
32 mb ram
3 or 4 gigs harddrive
2mb video
windows 95

What a piece of junk.

 

[jotosuds]

Packard Bell
486SX2 50Mhz
420mb HD
4mb of ram ( i couldn't even fvcking play doom!!! )
4x cdrom i think...

cost like $1500... piece of crap

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Linky

 

[YetioDoom]

300 Mhz PII
6 gig HD
64 MB RAM
CD-ROM

Fall 1998 - $1600

 

[Fresh Daemon]

Amstrad PC1512.

512K RAM, CGA graphics (had a special Amstrad 16-colour 320x200 mode, though), 5.25" FDD, 10MB HDD. With monitor, keyboard and mouse, set me back about $3,000.

Edit:

If you mean "computer" rather than PC (i.e. IBM-compatible), my first was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 48K of RAM and a cassette drive. Wasted hours of my life playing Marble Madness, and more hours waiting for it to load.

 

[mindwreck]

packard bell with a intel 8088 and a 25mb hdd with 5mb of bad sectors. about all i remember of it. it still works and kept in my garage.

 

[srygonic]

hp.
350 mhz.
thats all i remember.
edit: 6gb hdd

 

[Powermoloch]

The AMIGA Biznatch

 

[piasabird]

Tandy 1000A 8 bit computer. IBM PC Compatible (Sort of).
Had a floppy drive.
I purchased a 20MB Hard Disk for $250.00 at the time that was a good deal for a hard drive.

 

[bigdogtech]

So long ago:

IBM PC
CPU - 8088 at (can anyone remember?) something like 3.77 MHz (is that right?)
640K RAM
2 5.25" FDD - no HDD
Sound? an internal speaker that only "beeped"
Green monochrome IBM monitor
Graphics - uhh, text
OS - DOS - version "very early"
That great IBM DOS manual in a 3 ring binder inside a hard sleeve.

What a rig!

 

[sandorski]

Vic 20, Datasette

IBM PC Compatible(ANO)
8mhz Intel
640k ram
2 360kb 5.25" FD
Trident graphics card
Amber(cause green sucked! )12" TTL monochrome monitor

 

[George Powell]

Simply Computers
Pentium 150
TMC m/board
256k cache
32MB RAM - EDO
2GB HD
8 speed CD drive
2MB S3 graphics
15" Sony Trinitron monitor
oh and a 3.5" floppy which I still use to this day.

 

[d2arcturus]

Originally posted by: ironique
Brand = Daewoo (Yes, that's right, Daewoo! They actually built PCs! Maybe they still do!)

They still make monitors as far as I know.

I never got my first PC until '98, after all I'm not so old, and my parents were sort of struck down with technophobia back then.

IBM Aptiva
AMD K6-2 400HMz
64MB RAM
8GB HD
Integrated ATI

I've been playing games (no consoles) since I was very young though.
Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, DOOM, Jazz Jackrabbit (woot), etc.

 

[Crescent13]

plz don't laugh at me guys

compaq
windows 98
amd K6
128 mb ram
7gb hard drive
iomega zip 100 drive that still works

i know, i'm young (14)

 

[CraKaJaX]

8088 FTW.

 

[Aquila76]

I guess it counts as a PC? It was a late 70's Xerox with three pieces (CPU, Dot Line Printer, and 8.5 x 11" Monitor). AFAIK, it only did word processing. It used 10" floppies, and had some crazy keyboard with a built in circle-shaped touchpad. It must've weighed about 90 lbs for the CPU compartment alone. The house literally shook when the printer was used.
When my dad bought a Wang 386 PC (a 20MHz speed demon from Lechmere!), we took the Xerox apart. I took the Power Supply and one of the floppies into school because the parts were so frigging huge that everyone in class could see what the professor was describing.

 

[Twofootputt]

Had an Atari 500, 500KB HDD, didn't think we'd need the 1MB. No idea what processor. Had external 5 1/4 FDD. Around 1984.