my first PC (1994 I think): 486 66, 4MB RAM, 120 MB HD, wooHOO!

The modern equivalent would be a quad core processor,4GB of RAM operating at 1066MHz (5 times faster than their processor), dual graphics cards with at least 1GB of graphics RAM between them, 2x 150GB Raptor hard drives in RAID0 and an X-Fi sound card. The monitor would be a 24" widescreen LCD and a 7.1 surround sound system.

How things have changed...

Oh not to mention the fact that everything is water cooled and has a 50% overclock.

I have a 24" widscreen...

I now feel old... I had a 386i on loan from my dads job back in the day. I could barely play DOOM if i minimized the screed to stamp-size, full screen was like 2 frames a minute. in DOOM 1.. So I ended up playing wolf3D, must have finished that game like 20 times... I saved up some cash and got myself a 486 DX66 later, played DOOM like a DREAM, aaahh, the memories.

I also used to play Doom shareware on my dad's laptop, until I saved up for my own 486DX266 w. 8MB of RAM and 2MB VESA graphics, bought in September 1994. Played a mean game of Doom2, Alone in the Dark 2, Ecstatica, Tie Fighter, Duke Nukem 3D,

My specs in summer 1998: IBM Aptiva Pentium166 MMX, 64MB RAM, ATI Mach 64, 4MB Diamond Monster Voodoo1, SB Pro, 15" monitor w. built-in speakers.

My current specs: X24400+, 4GBPC3200 @400MHZ, ATI X1950XTX CF edition with X1900XTX in crossfire mode. SB X-fi platinum. 150GB WD Raptor HD. 30" Dell 3007WFP LCD monitor. Logitech Z5500 speakers. Logitech G7 cordless laser mouse. Logitech diNovo cordless RF keyboard.

I have a lot of fun playing BF2, Quake 4, etc..

I still have a P2 machine at work for testing. It is a Micron P2 450 Mhz system with 256 MB of SDRAM. It runs Windows 2000 SP4. I had an IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 10 Mhz (1 MB of RAM) when I first got my own PC. Here's my computer list: http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/toys.html

Where's part 2?

First PC I ever bought myself was a 486DX33 w/4Meg of ram. but before that I had some 8086 thing with no HD, just two 5.25 floppys & an orange monochrome monitor found at a garage sale... and though not really a PC I actually had a C=64 back in the day. I still have an old Cyrix 6x86-P166 processor I once thought made my computer go REALLY fast!

this has got to be before 1998? I was definitely playing on a P2-333 with dual voodoo-2 and 340 MB of RAM back in 1998

My family's first PC: I was 7 years old, and we had a 33 MHz 386 running DOSshell. It had the "turbo" button, which you would turn off and it would slow the computer to 15 Mhz. this computer was the ultimate gaiming machine at the time. Secret Agent Sam, commander keen, scorched earth and best of all, Corncob 3d, anyone else who has played corncob 3d will attest that is was the single best flight simulator ever made, one where if you do not shoot all the little black things on the green ground, you end up scrubbing alien toilets. Please, someone on videosift must have played corncob, I can't be the only one.

I sense a challenge. My first computer was a 1 megahertz 6510 running it's O/S off a ROM chip that had giant metal pins for legs!....

Unrelated... about 15 years ago, I performed a creative RAM upgrade for my Macintosh II video RAM. I called the manufacturer and told them I was engineering a product and needed 8 samples of their XXYYXX RAM chip and they mailed them for free : )

my first pc was tandy 1000 hx. 256 kb of memory and a 33 byte.. yes byte.. hd which was just large enough to hold the autoexec.bat file. That was way back in 1988 - 89 I believe. Then when that broke because we tried to upgrade it to 640 kb of ram (which at the time cost us about $300), I went a couple years without a pc. When we started looking again, I found a guy that was building pc's and went to go see what he had. He had a top of the line 386 but it was running some kind of spreadsheet os. His reasoning for using that was because, and I quote, "That Microsoft Windows will never amount to anything." Well, we promptly left and went to another computer shop where I got a 386 SX with 2 megs of ram. Was a fun time back then.

Mine was a Pentium 233 - 128 meg RAM - Dual Voodoo II's (ah yea SLI) - AWE 64 SB Sound - ... and a 15" CRT I couldn't afford the 17" after doing all the upgrades.

*sniff* I miss the Quake 2 days. So... anyone know the spec's of this rig he's showing off? They didn't mention the graphics card(s) in it.

You must be mistaken about the 33 BYTE hard disk. I dont think "common man" posessed a hard disk before the Seagate 5 megabyte ?ST-506?


My first hard disk was a 20 megabyte SH-204 for my Atari ST around 1988 or so.

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DC, Apple had a 5MB hard drive for the apple II and III, released in '83 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_ProFile

It was a 33 byte hd. That or it was ROM drive of some sort (I dont remember if I ever tried to edit the autoexec file). It was a static (not removeable) disk that was labeled "c:".

Also had a P2 333 "Darth Vader"-tower Compaq (2nd gen DVD ftw!) system w/Riva TNT. Oddly enough was better than dual Diamond Monsters in SLI, overall FPS + display quality wise on my rig. Getting Quake 2/Tribes running in hardware mode for the first time was a thing of beauty as a good majority of my Quake 2/AQ2 days were experienced through software rendering. This definately had to be alittle before 98.

i have a 26'' widescreen

My first IBM compatible PC was a 286. It was noisy, large and rubbish!

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