Your first Windows based PC........

tomdbomb61_djtj · May 15, 2008

Mine was a Packard Bell beast from Dixons !

Came with Packard Bell Navigator that thinking back was s**te,

Circa '95 I believe, it had a Pentium 75 inside! It wouldn't Run Fifa 96 properly that I saved for

Adam · May 15, 2008

lol retro.

Chrisjk · May 15, 2008

Miny was a 266mhz TIME, was crap to say the least and it cost like £1500 lol

Ex-User (19928) · May 15, 2008

I remember those days..

My dad used to do lots of PC building and repair for everyone wanting "a computer".

I told one of my friends NOT to get a Packard Bell or any of the other shite out at the time (Tiny, Time etc etc).

He did anyway and ended up having to buy a new one a year and a half later when it was time to upgrade. Packard Bell had superglued all of the components in place!!

Ex-User (19928) · May 15, 2008

I remember running DOS with 3.11 as a bootable OS. Then when 'dows95 came out we got an "elonex"..

Was a 233mhz animal!! Crazy power.

Andy.1.2-16v · May 15, 2008

I too has some type od old school packard bell thing from Dixons, has some speakers built in to the side of the monitor

DrR · May 15, 2008

486 for me, had a massive 2mb if ram and a 66mhz proccessor, made by mitec i think. remember paying £200 nearly to upgrade from a 200mb hand drive to a 420mb lol.

David · May 15, 2008

P100 custom build 4mb RAM 1g HDD Dual Speed CD ROM, cost £2000! i'm a youngen though

McBunny · May 15, 2008

erm bull data systems 8086 with twin floppys then stuck a hd in it and boosted the memory to 2MB
sorry windows pc was a 286 running windows 3.0

Gareth · May 15, 2008

a Gateway 2000 with Windows for workgroups 3.11

Ex-User (19928) · May 15, 2008

DrRollo said:
486 for me, had a massive 2mb if ram and a 66mhz proccessor, made by mitec i think. remember paying £200 nearly to upgrade from a 200mb hand drive to a 420mb lol.

Nearly forgot that bad boy!

We had a DX100 but it had an overclock button on the front which made it 133... No bad.

2x 600mb hard drives

Longy · May 15, 2008

I had a 8086 ferranti then a 486/dx66 then a HP Pentium 75

KarKiller · May 15, 2008

Thomas said:
Mine was a Packard Bell beast from Dixons !

Came with Packard Bell Navigator that thinking back was s**te,

Circa '95 I believe, it had a Pentium 75 inside! It wouldn't Run Fifa 96 properly that I saved for

Had exactly the same thing, 8Mb of RAM, it wasn't even enough to run the stupid 3D menu and cost about 1K

Nigel · May 15, 2008

Mine was a self built 486 DX2 66 with 8mb ram.Windows 3.11. 2x cd drive. Get in!

DrR · May 15, 2008

lol now i think about it i remember upgrading my cd rom from 2x to 4x

Jezz · May 15, 2008

Mine was a 386 SX25 running DOS6.0 - ahh the beast

Padso · May 15, 2008

I remember paying £100 to upgrade my computer with 4MB of RAM.

Mike_182 · May 15, 2008

386SX 25Mhz running Windows 3.1. Beast!!! Not bad for a 22-year-old. Was nearly new at the time as well! First brand new machine was a 486DX2-66!

Ex-User (19928) · May 15, 2008

DrRollo said:
lol now i think about it i remember upgrading my cd rom from 2x to 4x

Yeah the good old CD read speed race. When it hit 16x we were like WOW, how fast can these things get?

spirez · May 15, 2008

Was a piece of s**t from PC world that i used to play Dogz and worms on!

Duncx · May 15, 2008

First computer I ran Windows on was an AST 486.
Used NT 3.5 for a bit until 95 came out, until then all the other versions were crap. DESQview was much better for multitasking.

ViolentJ · May 15, 2008

My very first Windows pc was a Fujitsu 486 SX33 with Windows 3.1 and MS DOS 6.2 I think.

Sarah · May 15, 2008

was brought up with macs my 1st mac was a mac classic

my 1st pc is the laptop i have at mo and glad i made the switch

Peperami · May 15, 2008

386, was the dogs. Used to play police quest and own pixelated bad guys.

Mells · May 15, 2008

Thomas said:
Mine was a Packard Bell beast from Dixons !

Came with Packard Bell Navigator that thinking back was s**te,

Circa '95 I believe, it had a Pentium 75 inside! It wouldn't Run Fifa 96 properly that I saved for

Beast. I had the PB Executive 8903 - 486SX2 50, 4mb RAM, 340mb hdd and 1mb graphics, oh a 2x cd drive. I overclocked it to 66mhz.

Try running that shitty Navigator on that. I used to dream of the Pentium models. They would run command and conquer without the need of the bootdisk!!

Did you get Megarace with yours?

biojo · May 15, 2008

escom pentium 60, cost 1k , and still works now

Rich · May 15, 2008

Never owned one !

Darren S · May 16, 2008

Mine was an Elonex PC too - back in November '92.

Came with a 486SX-25 CPU onboard with 2MB memory, 52MB HDD and a Cirrus Logic 1MB graphics card about the same size as a surfboard - lol.

I upgraded it over time with a 486DX-33, 4MB of memory in total and a SoundBlaster 16ASP sound card.

It was the nutts back then. Dynamix's "Aces of the Pacific" FTFW!

D.

AndyT23 · May 16, 2008

Amstrad 386, can't remember the spec. It had the worlds tiniest monitor. It was bought for me and my sister to do homework but I spent most of my time bombing the Persian gulf and shooting down Migs on F15 Strike Eagle. That and driving round on Geoff Crammonds MicroProse Grand Prix.

bmh.01 · May 16, 2008

A Evesham Micros 486DX-33, 4mb of Ram, 1mb Cirris Logic graphics card, 5.25"+3.5" floppy drives. Was a beast, added a triple speed cdrom and a creative soundblaster pro at some point later in its life so I could play star wars rebel assault on cdrom woo!

RichRSi · May 16, 2008

My dad brought home a 086 i never really played on that much.. then later a 286 IBM PS/2 with vga graphics!!!

The first games I played were probably frogger and a few public domain type games which were just written by enthusiasts. I remember a game where you had to daze bees and a tank game where you typed in angle and speed and had to blow up the other tank. I also had sopworth a plane game with cga graphics where you dropped bombs on targets! I just remebered... Chuck Yeager's flight trainer

Turkish · May 16, 2008

Rich said:
Never owned one !

Same here, the only machine I've ever owned myself is an imac. Used to rinse my dad's PC's while i was growing up then lost interest when he started getting annoyed with part or full installs of games like quake and x-wing etc cluttering his HDD and constantly being bugged to upgrade his machine or graphics card. Can't be arsed with PC's for gaming consoles are far less hassle.

thecremeegg · May 16, 2008

Our first windows PC was a Pentium 90, 16mb RAM i think and a 2mb gfx card - was amazing for running Doom and duke nukem!!

My first proper PC for my own use was a celeron 733Mhz - was shocking, couldnt run any games at all haha

AndyT23 · May 16, 2008

Duke Nukem 3D!! Legendary game! As a young teenage boy I loved the level in the strip club where you could throw money at the podium dancers and get them to undo their bras and swirl their tassles!!

Adams_16v · May 16, 2008

I had a P100 which had just come out, upgraded to 16MB of RAM and they upped the HDD from 500MB to 800MB and it seamed like a massive upgrade. 15" CRT and Win95 which had also just come out.

It cost a massive £1400! But it got me where I am today!

Duke Nukem 3D - We had that on the network at school in the 6th form, just played that all day long!

AndyT23 · May 16, 2008

All the Policemen in it were Pigs too.... Literally!!

SEF90 · May 16, 2008

''Those alien b******s are gunna pay for shooting up my ride!''

sn00p · May 16, 2008

F**king hell. You're all way too young!

Adams_16v · May 16, 2008

This was sn00p's first PC

sn00p · May 16, 2008

Adams_16v said:
This was sn00p's first PC

I wish! She's hot!

Actually, one of my mates had a old mainframe in his bedroom.

I'm not kidding!

Your first Windows based PC........

thecremeegg

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