My first was a Cyrix 6x86 P166+ processor, Diamond Stealth 3D Video Card, Soundblaster Audio Card, USRobotics modem, Western Digital Hard Drive, Floppy Drive, Cdrom Drive, and Windows 95...can't remember all the specs, all this back in 1996...a barebones kit that I put together.

Eventually, I upgraded to the AMD K6-2 and I stayed with AMD rigs until the Intel Core 2 came out. Now I stay with Intel and Nvidia graphics.

I had my original receipt up until about two or three years ago.


Forgot, I also had a C64 back in the day. Played many games borrowed from a friend. But Bard's Tale, Silent Service, and Apache game I purchase for it.

I'm not sure if I'm jealous of getting in on PCs as early as some of you or not. My first computer was a 100 MHz Pentium running DOS/Windows 3.11 with a 3.5" floppy and a CD-ROM drive, I think 4x speed but not positive. Not sure on the rest of the specs but some history articles on the internet suggest it would have somewhere around 16 MB RAM and a hard drive reaching into low GB at best, but more than likely still measured in MB. So hard to believe a machine like that used to be fast.

The first PC I built was far more recent:
A first generation quad-core AMD Phenom. What were those 2.3-ish GHz?
4G of DDR2, I want to say 1333 MHz, but I might be conflating that with DDR3 speeds. I know it was factory OC'ed.
Nvidia 9800 GT video card, 512M video RAM
Some Gigabyte motherboard
Some impractical Raidmax case, I thought it looked cool at the time.
1000W PSU. Initially bought a 500W, but it wouldn't support the video card. So I went overkill.

Can't remember if Win7 was out or if I used XP on it until Win7 was released. Wait, neither. I was still using Linux exclusively at that point, but I did start dual-booting again after Win7.

First console was an Atari 2600. But that's a console.

Commodore 64 and an Atari 2600. As far as like PCs as we know them a 486 put together by my grandfather and remember playing flight sims and early strategy games. Especially remember Microprose games, F-15, F-117, Centurion: Defender of Rome, Sword of the Samurai, X-Wing, and etc. I even think I remember playing Space Quest IV on it.

First computer was ZX Spectrum +2b, then Amiga 600, my first PC was a Pentium 133 no idea about the graphics.

First PC I built was Athlon xp 3200, 1gb ram and a Geforce 5600 with a fairly big 256mb for the time. Unfortunately I didn't realise that the fx series was a load of crap when I bought it, and the basic 5600 (not the ultra version) was practically the worst of them - my dads mid level graphics card from the previous generation outperformed it most of the time.