Your first PC?

[Buleste]

I can remember when i first saw X-Wing on a PC and that was when i first thought that other computers were going to lose the fight.

[Sharingan]

Maybe I bought it just for those games, especially Blood.

Yeah, that was a great game. Great atmosphere, and nice, vicious gameplay. Wouldn't mind seeing a remake of that, though it'd probably get banned everywhere.

[J T]

We bought a Tiny ( ) PC, back in 96 I think it was, maybe 95. Just before I went into the first GCSE year.

It was a 133MHz Pentium, 16MB EDO-RAM, a 'pipeline burst cache' 16k I think, 1.3 GB hard drive, 4x CD-ROM and some crappy ATI 3D-Rage card (2MB I think), running windows 95.

It was used a lot for school work, encarta and TONS OF CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER. It cost around £1100 if I remember rightly. It came with wipeout and mechwarrior (possily 2). We never connected it to the internet, I doubt it even had a modem. It's currently sat in the loft at mum's. It was an OK computer for working and stuff, but for everything else it was pretty shitty and makes me feel a bit sad, we were pretty lucky to have actually got a PC.

Before that we had a 386 with windows 3.1 that dad took form work when it was made obsolete. It had a 20MB hard drive

[Harrison]

I can remember when i first saw X-Wing on a PC and that was when i first thought that other computers were going to lose the fight.

I first remember seeing Wing Commander and thinking how cool it would be to own a PC to be able to play it (but then that came out on the A1200 and CD32). But X-Wing was definitely one of the first games I saw on the PC that blew me away at the time and really made me wish I could afford a PC in 1993.

And as soon as i did have a decent PC I bought the X-Wing and Tie-Fighter Collectors box set and played both games non stop. And even though they were dated slightly by '98 they were still great.

[Buleste]

Still got my X-Wing and Tie-fighter set, which coincidentally was the first game i bought for my PC when i got it.

[Harrison]

I think I ordered my copy with my PC, so it was for me too.

[Tiago]

My first PC was a gift from my father:
phillips 8088
20 MB of HD (20mb ... that was something...!!)
1 - 3.5" floppy drive
1 - 5,1/4 floppy drive
CGA graphics

[Harrison]

3.5" disk drive in a 8088 PC. That was quite good. I only ever saw such old PCs with 5.25" drives.

[Sharingan]

My first PC was a gift from my father:
phillips 8088
20 MB of HD (20mb ... that was something...!!)
1 - 3.5" floppy drive
1 - 5,1/4 floppy drive
CGA graphics

Man, that's quite a relic! Do you still have it?