What was your first PC specs, what year And what is it now?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:40 pm

Mine was a PC I found after Christmas time in the garbage which needed only a hard disk in order to work, even the keyboard and mouse were in the box and my bro with the help of one of our friends who is working in that field help me fix it.
A clone PC 166MMX 32 Ram.
And I used it on a free dial up network ( Net Zero at the time ) but with all the pop up messages and your phone line is busy when you use it. PLus on a 12 inches screen 256 resolution.
It was great when I got to 40 K on a 56 k line.
Man, I can’t believe I went trough this.
In 2001 not that far away.
I had the time to read a whole article in a magazine before the page came up.
Believe it or not.
Pete

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:53 pm

I think this was 94-95

486 100mhz
4mb ram
0.5gig HDD

Post by **mik0rs** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:56 pm

June 99, lol.

Intel Celeron 466MHz
128MB PC-133 RAM
10GB HD
Voodoo 3 3000 16MB
Aaaaand a 6 x DVD drive

Now it's:

Athlon 2800+ (Barton)
1GB PC-2700 RAM
80GB + 20GB HDs
Radeon 9700 128MB
DVD/RW and CD/RW

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:04 pm

486 100mhz
8mb ram
4x cd rom drive (but it was a multichanger!)
no idea on the hdd, probablt about 0.5gb

about 1995.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:08 pm

Apple II+ with a whopping 64k of ram
1981/82

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:20 pm

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Apple II+ with a whopping 64k of ram
1981/82

Reminded me about this real ''history'' in a way.
If you haven't read it already but this is a true conversation with a cleaver friend of mine in the IT field. He was even teaching programming to a few private students from his place.

Pierre, I just bought this PC today and it is super, after this you don't need anything bigger, believe me...
My friend talking about his new commodore 64 working on cassettes. That was in 1984.
Believe it or not
Pete

Post by **Cooldown** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:21 pm

Pentium 75MHz 12MB RAM
Pentium M 1.86GHz 2048MB RAM

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:26 pm

Cooldown wrote:Pentium 75MHz 12MB RAM
Pentium M 1.86GHz 2048MB RAM

Noticed a bit of a difference in between the two?

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:47 pm

one of those commodor 64 thingies...

Post by **Scourge** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:01 am

486 dx4 100mhz, 8 mb ram, 450 mb hard drive. Around '94 I think.

Athlon XP 2200+, 512 ddr, 150 gigs combined on three drives.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:04 am

scourge34 wrote:486 dx4 100mhz, 8 mb ram, 450 mb hard drive. Around '94 I think.

Athlon XP 2200+, 512 ddr, 150 gigs combined on three drives.

You noticed a bit of difference I guess?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:07 am

riddla wrote:pong.

Sorrrrrrry don't know that one

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:11 am

Honeywellbull 286 with 16k ram CGA/EGA/VGA display adaptor on-board PC speaker with no soundhardware, 5 1/4 floppy drive/ 50 meg hard disk (I think) Sad to say but I remember DOS x, Windows version 1, OS/2 Warp. Heh, I used to play Double Dragon on the 386 below and have to run a dos command C:\Run Mode 17 as the game had no frame rate cap on it and would run at 100 FPS like a time demo without it...... ah them were the days.

After that pretty much every iteration of hardware

Honeywellbull Laptop monochrome, 16k ram, 256 meg hdd

x386, 4 meg ram, VGA adaptor, no hardware sound.

x486 DX2 66, Cirrus Logic G-card, 16Meg ram, AWE 32, 512 Meg

Toyed around with the Idea of getting an AMD K7 166 (I think at this point but plumped for an pentium instead)

P100, 32 Meg ram, Matrox Mystique, 1.7 gig

p120, 64 meg ram, Cirus Logic + M3D 1.7 gig

166mmx, 64 Meg ram, Cirus Logic + M3D (Matrox Accelerator) 1.7 gig

P200 Cirus Logic + M3D (matrox Accelerator Card) 1.7 gig

celly 400, 466, 600, 192 meg ram, TNT2 Ultra 8 gig

PIII 800@912 (or something like that) 192 meg ram, Geforce MX, AWE32 8 gig + 40 gig

Sempron 2600, ATi7600, 512 meg ram, 8 gig + 80 gig

sempron 3000, geforce 6200, 512 meg, 8 gig
+ 80

AMD64 With dual SLI 6600GT's 2 gig ram 160 gig hard-disk

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:28 am

bunch of no0bs round here...

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:30 am

286
2 megs of ram
80meg hard drive..

something along those lines..

Now
Amd 64 3000+
2Gigs 2X1gig Mushkin 2-2-3- pc3200
Geforce 7800GTX
430Gigs Combined HD space
BFG SLI NForce 4 Ultra Mobo

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:31 am

it was the shit.... till this came out

^
|
|roughly actual size, twas about the same size as a credit card. Didnt do 2-d at all. needed to be daisy chained to a 2-d card.

before nvidia came on the scene, Christ I even remember this

PCX2 PVR chipset pissed all over 3DFX, then they brought out the KYRO chipset which was excellent and for a budget card ekpt up with TNT2 Ultras which at the time were the donkey cock.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:31 am

[FTF]Pyro wrote:
Sempron 2600, ATi7600, 512 meg ram, 8 gig + 80 gig

How are those Semprons? I was thinking about buying a laptop with one in it.. just for basic mobile stuff, maybe a little quake..

Post by **seremtan** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:39 am

1st: 900MHz celeron, 128MB RAM, GF2, 20GB HD, 13" CRT

now: 3GHz P4, 1GB RAM, GF6600GT, 80GB HD, 19" CRT

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:40 am

SOAPboy wrote:
[FTF]Pyro wrote:
Sempron 2600, ATi7600, 512 meg ram, 8 gig + 80 gig

How are those Semprons? I was thinking about buying a laptop with one in it.. just for basic mobile stuff, maybe a little quake..

Sempron 3GHz 512ram and a geforce 6200

half-life 2 runs at around constant 45 FPS 800x600 medium texture, medium models, high everything else, no AA.

For the money prolly your best bet. Think PIII 800 MHz to an overclocked 566 Celeron @ 800 MHz and you get an idea

IE for dialy Use and running applications that are not processor intensive its about the same.

Post by **DiscoDave** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:41 am

SOAPboy wrote:
[FTF]Pyro wrote:
Sempron 2600, ATi7600, 512 meg ram, 8 gig + 80 gig

How are those Semprons? I was thinking about buying a laptop with one in it.. just for basic mobile stuff, maybe a little quake..

Semprons are basicallly rebadged XP's with a few little enhancements. If you dont plan to game a lot they're pretty good.

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:42 am

posting benchmark for you in a mo

Post by **tnf** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:42 am

If you started with a 166mhz machine, you got into the game pretty late.

Aside from the Commodore 64, my first PC was a Tandy 1000 TL that ran at 8 Mhz (in turbo mode) and 4 Mhz with turbo disabled.

Then I went to a 386/16 mhz, then a 486/33mhz, then a pentium 90, then a p2 450, then an athlon 1000, then a athlon 1600, and now the athlon xp 3500+....

there were probably some others I'm forgetting...

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:43 am

Wurd, might pick it up then.. i dont want a OMGPWN laptop.. just something that "works" and is decent on battery life..

Post by **tnf** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:47 am

i remembery the first WYSIWYG program I used and how amazed I was about it.

Post by **[FTF]Pyro** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:50 am