What Was The Configration,cost & Year Of Purchase Of Ur First Personal computer??

[dreamsalive]

After a lot of thinking i've come up with this intresting topic that i want all of us should share with each other.I think i need not tell u anything as everything It is mentioned in the title of this topic.

Please do not discuss about any computer upgrades as there is different thread for that.Only discuss ab. ur first time PC(no matter wich yr. u bought it be it 1990 or 2008 or any)

ABOUT MY FIRST PC:-

BOUGHT IN 1999(assembled ) {PLEASE DO MENTION THE YEAR}

CONFIGRATION- INTEL CELERON 600 MHZ(I THINK)
8 GB HDD(LOL! THAT was max. in our area at tat time)
128 mb RAM
samsung 15" monitor
white coloured ball mouse,keyboard,speakers
no graphics card
cd rom & floppy drive
WINDOWS 98 SE

COST---> RS. 36,000+/- (u can get a master piece at that price nowdays)

THATS ABOUT ME & WHAT AB. U...........??

[iMav]

P II
32MB RAM
Sis 6326 GFX Card
Creative Sound card
Creative CD ROM

Cost: Don't remember, it came from office.

[Pat]

P III 650 MHz
64 MB RAM ( I remember it came with 32 MB only and I opted for an extra 32 MB which cost about Rs.3200..Lol!)
10 GB Hard disk
Intel 810 Mainboard

I paid 43k for it (I can get a beast now for that price)

Got it in 2000 IIRC.

[Kl@w-24]

My first computer came in November 2001. Here's the config:

HP Brio BA300
{
Intel Pentium III 1GHz processor
Intel 810e chipset & onboard graphics
64MB 133MHz SD-RAM
20 GB 5400 RPM hard disk
48X CD-ROM drive
Standard floppy disk drive
Philips stereo speakers
Samsung 55V 15" monitor (bought separately coz HP was offering monitors that cost a bomb)
Windows 98SE pre-loaded
}

COST: approx. Rs. 55000/-

[dreamsalive]

Originally Posted by Pat

I remember it came with 32 MB only and I opted for an extra 32 MB which cost about Rs.3200..Lol!

Intresting & surprising!!

[Kl@w-24]

I paid Rs. 2500/- for another stick of 64 MB SD-RAM

[astroutkarsh]

P III 500 MHz,
2 x 128 MB Ram,
10.2 GB HDD Seagate,
SIS 6326 AGP,
Mercury MB,
Creative Vibra 128 Sound Card + Infra CD-ROM + 2.0 SPK (SBS 20)
14" Samtron
56 kbps ext Modem D-Link
HP 610 Printer
D-Link ISA LAN Card
+ Table + Stabilizer etc
COST : Approx. 55K/- in July 1999

[iMav]

Hmmm I had a 2GB HDD, wonder I managed stuff.

[abhijit_reddevil]

My first was bought in sept 1999: (Vintron, branded, .... , anyone heard of this?)

Intel Celeron 400Mhz
32MB SDRAM
4.3GB HDD
Standard CD-ROM and floppy drive
Vintron 14" color monitor
Standard white 101-key keyboard, logitech 3 button scroll mouse (white color)
SiS 6326 4MB graphics card
AT cabinet (mid-size)
Lexmark color printer (inkjet)...after the cartridges finished their ink, I never refilled the ink.
Windows 98 SE

Cost me a bomb at that time, Rs.42000 odd.

[BBThumbHealer]

Year :: Aprrox. 1999


Intel Celeron 933MHz
LG CD ROM
14" Phillips Monitor
LG Soundmate Speakers
32 MB RAM
2 GB HDD
Basic Keyboard & Scroll Mouse !


Cost :: Rs.25000/-

[ray|raven]

There was a similar thread(s) before , IIRC.

Anyways, here's my first config , dont remember when though.

P-I 166 Mhz.
32 MB RAM
4 GB HDD
A SIS VGA Card.

Remember having some sound card and a FDD drive too.

[desiibond]

my first config:

Pentium 3 1.13GHz
256MB SD ram
gigabyte 815 motherboard
LG cdrom
mercury cabinet
sony FDD
seagate barracuda 40Gb HDD
samsung samtron 15" monitor
TVSE keyboard
logitech wheel mouse
local made UPS

bought it in 2001

[dreamsalive]

i remember in mid 90's my neighbour used to have a comp. with 16 mb ram,100-150 mb hdd ,b&w monitor & old fashioned cpu (which lays flat with just floopy drive in it) and we used to play chess with each other even though we didnt knew its rules.....what a time that was......!!!

[pimpom]

My first computer was an Amiga A500, made in 1986, bought second-hand from Germany in 1993. It cost me 15,000/-.
Config: 7 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, 0.5 MB RAM, no HDD, no monitor (Used TV as monitor).

I assembled my first IBM-clone PC in 1999 (I think) from parts left over from computers I upgraded for other people plus defective ones I repaired. Config:

Pentium 166, o/c to 200 MHz
8 MB EDO RAM
SiS 6215 PCI gfx card, 1MB fitted with an extra 1 MB
CD-ROM drive made usable by scavenging parts from 3 defective ones
4.3 GB HDD assembled from 2 defective ones.
PSU - 200W repaired dead one
Keyboard - repaired defective one
Mouse - as above
14" monitor - as above
Creative soundblaster card with built-in amplifier
Speakers - non-amplified stereo spkrs that I'd built years before with Philips Hi-Q 8" dual-cone speakers.
Cabinet - NONE. Motherboard propped up against a wall, other components stacked on my table.
Total cost: 0.

Full story at Damnest PC Search

[Kl@w-24]

Originally Posted by digitized

My first was bought in sept 1999: (Vintron, branded, .... , anyone heard of this?)

Yup, I remember that one!! They had a model named Vintron Elixir, which looked quite stunning at that time!

[Pat]

Originally Posted by pimpom

no monitor (Used TV as monitor).

There was tv-out in 1986

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by pimpom

My first computer was an Amiga A500, made in 1986, bought second-hand from Germany in 1993. It cost me 15,000/-.
Config: 7 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, 0.5 MB RAM, no HDD, no monitor (Used TV as monitor).

I assembled my first IBM-clone PC in 1999 (I think) from parts left over from computers I upgraded for other people plus defective ones I repaired. Config:

Pentium 166, o/c to 200 MHz
8 MB EDO RAM
SiS 6215 PCI gfx card, 1MB fitted with an extra 1 MB
CD-ROM drive made usable by scavenging parts from 3 defective ones
4.3 GB HDD assembled from 2 defective ones.
PSU - 200W repaired dead one
Keyboard - repaired defective one
Mouse - as above
14" monitor - as above
Creative soundblaster card with built-in amplifier
Speakers - non-amplified stereo spkrs that I'd built years before with Philips Hi-Q 8" dual-cone speakers.
Cabinet - NONE. Motherboard propped up against a wall, other components stacked on my table.
Total cost: 0.

Full story at Damnest PC Search

you had an amiga ?
you are a 1337 computer user then...

[thewisecrab]

I got my First PC in 1997 ( Dad got one from his office)
I dont remember the specs in detail
but here goes:
13" Color Monitor (I think Samtron)
32 MB Ram
2 GB HDD
No graphics card (what can you expect?)
A 32 Kbps external Modem which would make loud beeps (was really cool at that time)
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (upgraded to 98 a year later)
Floppy Drive
48x Creative CD-ROM drive (yeah, Creative)
Dont remember processor
It used to be that "Monitor On top of Horizontal CPU" system which not used much today

Total Cost: 48,000/-

It was the talk of the neighborhood, us being the only family ever (in locality and among relatives) to have a "PC"

People used to flock to our house to see this thing like how kids used to go to the only guy in the neighborhood with a television in the 70s

[pimpom]

Originally Posted by Pat

There was tv-out in 1986

That was an Amiga, one of the finest and most beloved personal computers in its day. It had both TV-out and RGB-out as standard.

Even today, my Amiga A1200 (1992 model running at 14 MHz) can still run rings around a modern Windoze PC in multitasking. It had 24-bit graphics, 4-channel sound, full multimedia capability, perhaps the best OS ever (4 MB fully installed), smooooth multitasking with full GUI on 2 MB total RAM including display.

More details at Which OS is fast, lite, best & stable?

[SunnyChahal]

AMD XP 2800+
Some crappy mobo don't remember.
384 MB DDR 533Mhz RAM
Nvidia geforce 2 32MB GPU
40 GB IDE HDD
12" CRT.
Samsung 52x CD Writer
Dolby sound card
Windows XP
This was my first gaming rig which my dad bought me(Got assembled) in Dec 2003.I was 10 years old then.All this setup cost us 25K flat coz the person who assembled knew my Dad.

Times have changed now

[rhitwick]

My first PC
Year:2003
Date: 14th Feb( Thats why I still remember)

PIV 1.7GHz
Intel original 845 GLAD
256MB Ram-Hynix
40GBHDD-Seagate
LG 15" Monitor
Keyboard TVS Gold (In my new PC I've bought it again)
Logitech scroll mouse
LG CDROM
Sony FDD
Cabinet Frontech(Model bhul gaya)
UPS: Frontech Jill(The worst one)
Creative 2.1 inspire series

Cost at around 37K

[pimpom]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

you had an amiga ?

I still do. Two of them in fact, though I rarely use them anymore
More details at Which OS is fast, lite, best & stable?

you are a 1337 computer user then...

Huh?? You mean I must be from the fourteenth century ?? You're not far wrong
Heck, my first experience with a computer was with an IBM 1620 mainframe with a whole 40 KILObytes of memory!!

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by pimpom

I still do. Two of them in fact, though I rarely use them anymore
More details at Which OS is fast, lite, best & stable?

Huh?? You mean I must be from the fourteenth century ?? You're not far wrong
Heck, my first experience with a computer was with an IBM 1620 mainframe with a whole 40 KILObytes of memory!!

1337 means LEET, or ELITE.

Do you know what would classic Amiga 500 machines cost today ?

[raksrules]

Beat This !!!!

First PC:

Motherboard: Not known
Processor: 80486 - 66Mhz (100 Mhz after pressing the front panel turbo button)
Hdd: 540 MB
RAM: 8MB
Floppy: 5.25" ( i hope i got the size correct)
Montior: Some Unknown Brand (15") Black and white
CD-ROM: No optical drive
Keyboard and Mouse: Brank not known
Speakers: Beeps from my CPU
Graphics Card: Whats that ???
OS: Initally MS DOS then Windows 3.1
Year: 1995
Price: Rupees 50000
Note: We had to put an Air Conditioner in the room where PC was there since it was a thumb rule to have a AC in the PC room. Lolzzz
Sold for: Rupees 4000 in 2001

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My Second PC

Motherboard: Intel (Model No not known)
Processor: Celeron 266Mhz
Hdd: 20 GB
RAM: 128 MB
Floppy: 3.5"
Montior: Samsung 14" 4Bni Colour
CD-ROM: Creative 48X (with infrared remote). He he
Keyboard and Mouse: Logitech
Speakers: some unknown brand 2.0 speakers
Graphics Card: No Graphics card
OS: Windows 98
Year: 1999
Price: Approx 35000


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My Current Machine

Motherboard: Intel 845GSLV
Processor: Intel pentium 4, 2.4 Ghz
Hdd: 80 GB
Floppy: 3.5"
RAM: 256 MB
Montior: Samsung Syncmaster 17"
Optical Media: Samsung 20 IDE DVD Writer (bought new)
Keyboard and Mouse: Logitech
Speakers: Creative SBS 240 2.0
Graphics Card: Onboard graphics 64 Mb
OS: Windows XP service Pack 2
Year: 2004
Price: Approx 30000 (dont remember exactly)

[shady_inc]

Celeron 2.4 Ghz proccy
40 Gb hard disk
128 Mb RAM
Intel 845 32 Mb graphic memory
CD ROM
Windows XP [ No idea if it was genuine or the vendor had *arranged* for it from somewhere]

Got in 2004 for 30,500 Rs.

Still using the same machine with RAM upgraded to 1 Gb, 15" LCD monitor & DVD writer.

[pimpom]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

1337 means LEET, or ELITE.

OOps! I must have left my brain some other place when I read that. Haven't had occasion to use or read that 1337 term in a long time and it slipped right past me.

Do you know what would classic Amiga 500 machines cost today ?

I really have no idea. Anything from 10-25K I guess, if it's in good condition. You might look in eBay-USA to get an idea.

[dreamsalive]

Originally Posted by rak007

Beat This !!!!

First PC:

Motherboard: Not known
Processor: 66Mhz (100 Mhz after pressing the front panel turbo button)
Hdd: 540 MB
Floppy: 5.25" ( i hope i got the size correct)
Montior: Some Unknown Brand (15") Black and white
CD-ROM: No optical drive
Keyboard and Mouse: Brank not known
Speakers: Beeps from my CPU
Graphics Card: Whats that ???
OS: Initally MS DOS then Windows 3.1
Year: 1995
Price: Rupees 50000
Note: We had to put an Air Conditioner in the room where PC was there since it was a thumb rule to have a AC in the PC room. Lolzzz
Sold for: Rupees 4000 in 2001

LOL!!! omg!!! LOL!!

[hellknight]

First PC :-

Year - 1993
Mobo - Don't know
Processor - Intel 80486
RAM - 2 or 4 MB
HDD - 540 MB
Floppy - 5.25"
Monitor - Dell B&W (maybe 14")
KB & Mouse - TVS
OS - Was shipped with UNIX (dad was in army) then he installed DOS for me (one of the biggest mistakes of his life)
Cost - Don't know.. I was forbidden to talk about money matters that time..

[windchimes]

My first experience with computers was in early 90's where I stuided "DOS" and "WORDSTAR" in front of a black and white monitor. Played games like pacman, patrol,
cat, bricks etc. And it was a REALLY EXPENSIVE MACHINE

Got my OWN PC in

Year - 2000
Mobo -Mercury 815E Chipset
Processor - Intel P3-1Ghz ( Latest then)
RAM - 128 MB I think
HDD - 20GB Seagate Barracuda(The Vendor said you have enough space for everything. Today I have a 260 GB + External 80 + Lots of DVDS and still not satisfied )
Floppy - Sony
Monitor - Samsung15"
KB & Mouse - Samsung and Logitec
OS - WIN98
AGP CARD - 36MB RIVATNT from Mercury
Cost - 45K

[enticer86]

Summer of '96

P1- that was the latest
4MB ram
16x CD Drive
Floppy
Windows 95-latest

Cost- 59k
Got 15 free multimedia CDs.