News.com is asking industry pros to tell us about their first computer. Well I may not be an industry pro, but its my site so I’m gonna tell you about mine. My first every computer ever was a Sinclair Spectrum +2 but thats not very exciting, my very first PC was bought in 1996 (I think). I bought it from Performance Computers in Darlington and cost £1700. It was a 120MHz Pentium machine with 32mb ram. It had a Diamond Stealth graphics card, 14″ monitor and a 4x cd rom drive. It was running the amazing windows 95 on a huge 800mb hard disk. When I think back at how much it cost it amazes me since it was crap. But at the time it was cutting edge, all my friends were still running 486 machines. Incedentally on the first weekend I had it I managed to bugger it up and had to do a full reinstall of windows.
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Amstrad CPC 464 – Dont ask why I dont know, but it had a green screen and you had ot buy an extra box to plug it into the tv to get colour
Then Atari 1024 STe – what musicians bought instsead of an Amiga, but the amiga had more games
Followed that with a 66Mhz 486 when they were top of the range, runing the amizingly stable windows 3.1, with a wopping 4Mb Ram and 400Mb HDD, I actually had less problems with that than any of my later machines
omg i remember when you bought your first PC I was so jealous you jammy bastard