What was your first PC?
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I remember buying my first PC in 1997. It was AMD 200 Mhz,16Mb of RAM memory and a 4 GB hard drive. I didn't really want a computer at the time because i had Sega Mega Drive for games, and and that was enough for me
The computer came with the pirated software preinstalled. I think all the software one could think of was on it. I taught myself how to use Photoshop, design web pages and later I did some programming in C.
What was your first PC?
The computer came with the pirated software preinstalled. I think all the software one could think of was on it. I taught myself how to use Photoshop, design web pages and later I did some programming in C.
What was your first PC?
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but i'm old enough to remember 286's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_16
Well, if we're counting those then it would be a second-hand Commodore Vic-20 in, about, 1982/83, followed by a second-hand C64 a couple of years later (in a swap for a synthesiser...)
First actual IBM compatible PC, though, was a Time PC in 1995. Heap of junk. 486DX4, I think it was, at 100mhz. Came with OS/2 Warp... that didn't last long. Friends of mine had been picking up machines from a very young Scan International since the 386 days so I was late to the game.
ETA: had originally said 286s but, thinking about it, they were buying in the early 90s so they would've been 386 machines, I'm sure...
ETA. Had a ZX81 followed by an Amstrad 6128 before then, but the question was "What PC" so I initially left that info out.
Ahhh them wus the days life in the slow lane
1.44mb floppies at the time were the storage standard and you can sort of use that as a measure of how big a 800mb hard drive was then.
The phone I own 17 years later has 32GB storage!
Actually the Atari 800 I had was probably the best machine going
When I got my 2nd PC in late 1997 it had a 6GB hard drive. A friend of mine, on checking out the spec, actually said "6GB?! Why have you got a hard drive so big? You'll never fill that!"
first IBM type PC? ... so crappy I can't remember the name!
It was a 1993 486 25MHz with 4MB of RAM and something like 160 MB hard drive.
I used that as my business computer till 2005, although we did buy a family computer running XP in 2002.
First computer we actually bought was our XP desktop in 2003. That machine is still working but it's really slow. It used to be a high-end computer. It had 512MB RAM, a Pentium 4 and an 80GB hard drive. It was the family computer. I got my first laptop in 2004 and I still have it but I plan to use it for trying out Linux distros. I'm all Mac now but mum and dad have Windows 7 laptops (mum has one, dad has two) and an iPad.
Before that, pre-PC, a 4 bit Sharp PC-1211 pocket computer with 1.5K memory in 1980, it still works and is cool. Then, Sinclair ZX 81, Spectrum and QL.
Before that, IBM mainframe computer terminals at work, from about 1972 I think. I've been around the computer block a few times since then.
My first IBM PC compatible was an Elonex IBM AT clone (with more RAM and a bigger HDD than the IBM AT). Its' serial number is 11. I used to work just over the road from their original premises at Rays House on the North Circular Road, and remember collecting it from them. I think it was in 1986
When I say" is 11" I mean it because I still have it, and it still works!
My own computers started with a Tandy TRS80 model I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trs80.
Vic 20
Commodore 64
Atari ST
First "PC" was a 25MHz 486SX with a 120MB hard disk and (I think) 1MB RAM. Cost a whopping £1200 in 1992.
I remember paying about that for an Olympic 486, i was lucky as they went bust not long after and I spent £2000 on a later machine, crazy prices, I remember paying £500 for a colour printer and another £500 for my first flatbed scanner that took 3 passes to scan an image, but back in around 92/3 seemed great value! How times change.