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I wish I still had one of my earliest PCs, but I don't. I know it's a contradiction to say I had more than one first, but I did depending on your definition.
The first PC I had access to:
The earliest I remember using/having any access to is something that ran Windows 95 but I never knew the specifications. It was a White tower (but not overly tall) in the late 1990s but the hardware itself was probably early-mid 1990s. This was short lived as it had issues and got replaced. It came from my fathers' work (bosses son gave it to him?) and I'm fairly sure it went back there.
What happened to it? It got replaced.
The first PC I remember anything about:
This is more of a continuation of the above but it was a different PC. The replacement I do remember the specifications of. It was a Compaq Deskpro 2000 that had a Pentium 166 MHz, 16 MB or 32 MB RAM, a 1 GB HDD, and Windows 95. The first was probably relatively similar in specifications if I had to guess. That was also technically my father's PC and then when I moved from my father's to my mother's, he let me take it and it became the family PC there very shortly until they bought a new one due to how slow it was.
What happened to it? It got replaced, sat, and was thrown out early-mid 2000s.
The first PC that was personally mine:
My first personal one that was some sort of custom White box my stepfather's friend gave to the family, and as they had a new PC, I got this one. I recall it was awkward because it used the Baby AT form factor well past its time. The only motherboard output was a single AT (pre-PS/2) keyboard connector if I remember right. The PSU used a pair of four pin connectors. This was before the 20-pin ATX connector. It had a Celeron 633 MHz, 128 MB (?) SDRAM, a GeForce 4 MX440, and a 20 GB hard drive. It ran Windows 98 and then went to Windows XP.
What happened to it? It died. I connected the PSU connectors wrong and it never worked again. This is where I started learning more about hardware so it was my learning mistake.
The first PC that was personally mine that I bought myself:
Nothing exciting here, I just found a cheap $100 used Dimension 4100 and used it to replace the above. Specifications a bit higher than, but similar to, the above. Well, the 800 MHz Pentium II was actually about twice as fast as the 633 MHz Celeron, but I mostly moved my previously graphics card, some RAM, and hard drive over.
What happened to it? I kept it around until the early 2010s a decade ago and it needed to go, so I sold it locally. I feel good this one saw a good end as far as I know.
The first PC that I built:
This was the late 2007s. I had an income so I was done using Dells with video cards added to them. I saved up and built a Core 2 based PC with a Core 2 Duo E8400, Maximus Formula (the original, back when a top end motherboard was $250 and not four figures), 4 GB DDR2, a GeForce 8600 GTS OC, and a pair of 320 GB HDDs. I was getting into overclocking so the E8600 replaced the E8400, I added another 4 GB RAM, and the video card was only ever temporary since the GeForce 9000 series was coming... only it turned out to be a re-release of the just released G92 8800 GT, so I just bought that.
What happened to it? Formally, I've been upgrading it since! The original platform parts (motherboard, CPU, cooler, and RAM) were sold online to someone I knew on another community as their friend wanted it, and I used those founds to partially supply my own upgrade for a 2500K I won on some raffle on overclock.net. I used that until 2020 haha, and I still have that. Nothing that I originally had remains so it's changing piece by piece now, but I've yet to do a new full build since then.
If I had to pick one to have back, it'd be the third one (the first one that was mine that I broke). Glad you were able to relive old memories. Only thing missing for yours is a CRT but those are a pain to come by and keep around now.
I did add a graphics to it later on down the line if I remember right.
Voodoo graphics card when they were around.
Computers were so different back then.
Amazing how much technology has changed! Now a computer can fit in your hand!
Like for example the tv show Stranger Things! I know that is not everyone's cup of tea and that is fine! Does not have to be that specific show.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/185763795026?hash=item2b40629052:g:KWUAAOSwSbJjyxWv
The 1st PC I owned was a no name PC clone - it ran MSDOS 2.11 (I think) again booted from FDD. As I recall it had a 4.77MHz 8086 CPU and 1000kb of RAM - of which 640Kb were usable. The other 360Kb could be used as RAMdisk. I had a 13" amber monochrome monitor and an Epson dot matrix printer. I later had a second hand 5Mb HDD fitted at a cost of $300.
How times have changed.