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What was the first PC you ever had? 

What year was it, and if you know them, what were the specs?

First one my family got was this bad boy in 1995. I don't know the full specs, but I remember that my Dad asked if they had an option for more RAM than the standard, and the guy at the computer shop was like "mate, you'll never need more than 8 Megabytes of RAM" which stuck with me as kinda hilarious.



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Amstrad and then a big chunky laptop that ran straight from MS DOS.



IBM PS/1 386SX, 20MHz, 2Mb memory, 40Mb hard drive, 1.44 floppy, 12" VGA monitor, DOS 6.0/Win 3.1

1991 model, got it used 1994.

Still running. Though floppy drive is dead (not to mention original mouse&keyboard), but fortunately I was able to connect it with a cable on other computers to move files.



Don't know the year exactly, but it had the following specs:

Pentium 120 MHz
32 MB EDO-RAM
ATI Rage IIc 4MB

Don't know about the rest all that much. But I remember upgrading the RAM to 48 MB at some point.



唯一無二のRolStoppableに認められた、VGCの任天堂ファミリーの正式メンバーです。光栄に思います。

If by PC you mean IBM PC compatible, then '95. It was Pentium, but I don't remember exact specs, apart from having Sound Blaster AWE32.

If by PC you mean wider definition, as in any personal computer, then C64 in early 80s.



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First one I bought for myself was a Pentium 90 (mhz) with a Sounblaster 16. No GPUs yet, VGA.

First one I got was the old PC from my parents when I went to university. It was the first one my dad bought, an early 8086, CGA, with 2x 10MB HDDs and dual floppy disc drives.

The little monitor could only display green and bright green so it had jumpers on the connector to change which of the 4 CGA 'colors' to combine. For games you had to choose how to map 4 colors onto black, green, bright green by physically changing the jumpers. 



Amstrad CPC 464

was that even a PC considering I only played games on it on a green monochrome monitor lol?

If we talking something more modern then Pentium 2 400MHZ



 

 

I switched from Amiga to IBM-PC compatible in 1993

  • CPU: intel 486 DX33
  • graphic card: Diamond SpeedStar Pro (1 MB VRAM, SVGA)
  • sound card: Creative Soundblaster Pro
  • RAM: 8 GB
  • HDD: some SCSI drive, ~200 MB
  • CD-ROM: Apple CD 300 (2x speed, caddy loaded)
  • mouse: Microsoft Mouse 2.0
  • controllers: Gravis Analogue Joystick + Gravis PC Gamepad
  • monitor: Magic AT 1782 (CRT, 17'', up to 1024x768 with 75 Hz)
  • OS: MS-DOS 5.0 + Windows 3.1



Cobretti2 said:

Amstrad CPC 464

was that even a PC considering I only played games on it on a green monochrome monitor lol?

If we talking something more modern then Pentium 2 400MHZ

Well, it's in the name - Colour Personal Computer - oh, wait...:P

Friend of mine had Schneider CPC 464 - I remember thinking it's uglier than original Amstrad version, which I still find to be one of the most (in not THE most) aesthetically pleasing home computers from that period.



Considering all computers, the first was a Apple Macintosh Performa 630.

Don't know all the specs, but since I remember the type name that should be easily found. I played a lot on it, and a lot of different things. It's still in the attic. It worked when it was put there, but that's been a very long time ago so who knows. We got it in I believe 1995. Not much later, I guess about a year, we also got a Windows PC. A Compaq something, with Windows 95. We don't have that one anymore, haven't for decades now, but I remember it came with a 4GB Hard Drive. It was like the size of a coffee-maker and people said "Why'd you need soo much space, you're never going to fill that in a hundred years!"

We got these after my stepfather started living with my mother and me, but he already had a computer earlier. I don't really know what it was, but it had some kind of DOS-like operating system. Maybe it was even a Commodore, who knows, I only ever saw it maybe two times when I was about seven years old. Also, my grandparents had one of the Atari computers. I remember that one a lot better, because I used to play with it. I don't remember which Atari it was exactly, but it had a bunch of programs included like some paint program, and my grandparents had the Star Wars Arcade game on it.

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