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What was your first PC?

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I'll cheat because this was my brother's first PC:
486 SX 25 Mhz with Trident VGA card and SB 16 (upgraded to DX4/100 in early 2000s)

The actual "my" first PC, the one I purchased with my own money, was E5200, GB P35 DS3L and PowerColor 4850.
 
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A 1992ish Packard Bell 486 abomination. I remember little of it other than it was 66mhz, but at least the DX variant. 4MBs of ram. ... The thing never could properly run Tie Fighter...
Wow, I finished Tie Fighter on my 386DX using a mouse. That was some good workout :roll:
Also, beat Doom and Doom 2 on the same machine. Must've been around 10-15 fps :)
 
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Avalon Hill games !
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Pentium 110(?) w/W95. The only browsers then were Explorer and Netscape. Netscape was not free. Most of my games were on 5.25" flippies.
Not much later I gave it to my father when I built my own. Multistar, dBase IV, Wordperfect, Multimate, etc.
 
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This was my 1st pc in 1986 - Amstrad CPC 464.

It was powered by a Zilog Z80 cpu running @ 4Mhz with 64k memory = LOL by today's standards.

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My dad gave me an SFF Dell OptiPlex GX280 (came from a PC recycle shop I think) when I was like twelve. 3GHz Pentium 4 and 4GB ram, I mainly used it for schoolwork but definitely spent many hours in Doom, StarCraft, and Quake II - I believe it also ran Portal and HL2 without much issue either. It wasn't until I tried to play the PC version of Guitar Hero 3 on it that I realized integrated graphics was a limitation. At some point I managed to convince my dad that I needed something called a "graphics card" in order to do video editing (which wasn't a lie, I did spend a lot of time back using the family video camera to make little videos and stop-motion films - but I mainly wanted it for Guitar Hero), and I ended up with a 1GB Radeon HD 4670 from Best Buy. The GX280 was actually one of the few OptiPlex models that had a PCIe 2.0 slot (even the SFF version!), but I could only fit it in if I kept the chassis permanently open at like a 45 degree angle. Was horrible for keeping the computer free of dust, but I could play GH finally!

My family definitely had much older PCs when I was growing up, but this was the first one that I could call my own and actually play games on without getting scolded or blamed for virus infections.
 
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A lineup with a couple of modern cases.
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Not sure if this one counts: ZX81 with 1 kB shared Memory, '80ies.
Else: 386 with 4 MB Memory and 256 colour graphics, came with MS-DOS 5.0. '92
 
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Pre built my dad got me for 16th birthday (I kind of think was 18th, but I had it when I was doing my IT training after leaving school so must have been 16th).

It came with the monitor as well, was a 486 DX2-66 and SVGA monitor, most of my friends had a DX-33 or even SX chip and VGA screens, so had the envy PC.

Was very surprised as previously to this my dad would typically say no to everything I asked for and had never spent anything like this on any present before, I went in the shop with him in tow, and he said yes out of the blue.

As a family we did have the green screened cpc 464, which was mostly used by me in the living room, I cannot remember why it was brought and who it was supposed to be used by. But I had good fun on it.
 
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Not sure if this one counts: ZX81 with 1 kB shared Memory, '80ies.
Else: 386 with 4 MB Memory and 256 colour graphics, came with MS-DOS 5.0. '92
Sure it counts, it's reasonably personal and it's a computer. I'm less sure that this one counts, though:
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I bought one in 1989 I think, that's when I went to the university and needed a programmable calculator. Oh no, it wasn't able to http://.
 
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Have been using very the same unit and a HP 28C as it came with a 'graphic' display.
 
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