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I was just going over some old stuff on discs that I'm throwig out andI must have written a spec for a fairly high end PC back in 2000.

Processor - Pentium II 333MHz - £152.00
64Mb Memory - £70
4.3Gb - £110
CDROM! - 16x -£41
Graphics Matrox Millennium - £70
17" CRT - £211
Soundblaster Live - £120
Epson 740 (A4) printer £188

List goes on!! Compare that with todays and it's amazing how much things have become cheaper over the last 10 years!
 
I've still got my first cd burner in the loft from around 1999, a 2x Ricoh scsi - £350. And a rewritable cdrw - £18. I refuse to throw them out. Write once cdrs then cost about £5 each, and a burn failure - not uncommon - was a tearful occasion.

My first desktop, which accomodated the above, was a Tiny Pentium 266, 256mb RAM, 6gb HD and Win95 - £2000. I still have all of it scattered around the house. I was thinking of putting it back together in a nostalgia trip.
 
MisterE said:
I've still got my first cd burner in the loft from around 1999, a 2x Ricoh scsi - £350. And a rewritable cdrw - £18. I refuse to throw them out. Write once cdrs then cost about £5 each, and a burn failure - not uncommon - was a tearful occasion.

My first desktop, which accomodated the above, was a Tiny Pentium 266, 256mb RAM, 6gb HD and Win95 - £2000. I still have all of it scattered around the house. I was thinking of putting it back together in a nostalgia trip.
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I remember my first CD rom bought at a computer fayre and must have been around 1992 or 1993 and it was £110 for a 4x device. Also paid £120 for 4Mb of ram!!! My first PC was a little older tha yours :) A 486DX33 with 1Mb RAM (later upgraded to 4Mb) a 100Mb hard drive an expensive at the time 15" CRT and Windows 3.1! £1200 or thereabouts at the time! From a company up the road from me wo still seem to be in business althugh not selling in the magazines any more (Locland Computers)
 
Not quite 10 years but 15 years ago:

Nikon E2/E2S

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As for computer components I still have the 286 in the basement. Never had the urge to get rid of it. Then the famous Voodoo GFX cards! They were awesome in their day.

Its amazing how technology moves forward.
 
King_Boru said:
Not quite 10 years but 15 years ago:

Nikon E2/E2S

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As for computer components I still have the 286 in the basement. Never had the urge to get rid of it. Then the famous Voodoo GFX cards! They were awesome in their day.

Its amazing how technology moves forward.
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Voodoo cards! i remember them. I had a couple of them linked together from memory :)
 
My first PC was an Amstrad 2086 (086 processor) 640Kb Ram and I fitted a 10Mb hard drive.
 
The first PC I owned was a Tiny P100 with 1GB HDD, 16mb RAM, an 8X CD-ROM and 15" monitor. How things have moved on.

Our first PC as a family, excluding the BBC B, was a Dell something, 80286 33mHz I think, 40Mb, yes megabyte, hard disk and DOS 3.x.
 
Yup, had a 386 (no math co-processor) with 110mb HDD and Windows 3.1.
It was a goupil golf with monochrome monitor, when I got a colour screen it was like I had got a new PC! No network card back then, but then again there was no internet either!
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Wait till Cobra sees this thread - he'll be posting images of an abacus! :lol:

I suspect my first computer predates many of those mentioned, but what a trip down memory lane eh? :)
 
EOS_JD said:
I was just going over some old stuff on discs that I'm throwig out andI must have written a spec for a fairly high end PC back in 2000.

Processor - Pentium II 333MHz - £152.00
64Mb Memory - £70
4.3Gb - £110
CDROM! - 16x -£41
Graphics Matrox Millennium - £70
17" CRT - £211
Soundblaster Live - £120
Epson 740 (A4) printer £188

List goes on!! Compare that with todays and it's amazing how much things have become cheaper over the last 10 years!
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That was not high spec in 2000
 
Well it certainly wasn't low spec. :) I appreciate there would always be people who deal at the super high end but this was pretty much a notch above a mid range PC (so I said fairly high end).
 
Our first PC was a Packard Bell Pentium 150 Mhz. It had a Diamond 4mb Graphics Card and 16MB RAM. We soon upgraded to Dual Voodoo 2 Graphics Cards to let us run OPEN GL, and we also stuck 64MB ram in the thing. Quake 2 was something to behold after the upgrade!
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EdinburghGary said:
Our first PC was a Packard Bell Pentium 150 Mhz. It had a Diamond 4mb Graphics Card and 16MB RAM. We soon upgraded to Dual Voodoo 2 Graphics Cards to let us run OPEN GL, and we also stuck 64MB ram in the thing. Quake 2 was something to behold after the upgrade!
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i think i might have a couple of voodoos kicking around in a box somewhere along with a matrox mistique or millienium? lol :naughty:
 
EOS_JD said:
Well it certainly wasn't low spec. :) I appreciate there would always be people who deal at the super high end but this was pretty much a notch above a mid range PC (so I said fairly high end).
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I had a laptop which came out around 1998/9 and was set for Windows 98, it had 64MB of RAM expanded to 128 (possible max of 192), a 6 gig hard drive and a PII 366 - and as I say that was a laptop. 'High end' in 2000 would probably consist of a PIII at around 0.6-1GHz. Everything on the PC you quoted is around 2000 era but the processor was rather weak I think for that time. Certainly not cutting edge at all.:clap:
 
I didn't have the need for a personal computer until 1997, when I bought a 2nd-hand 486-25 laptop with 12MB RAM and 200MB hard drive for £450(!). I used it daily with Win3.11 and DOS software until 2002(!). Sixteen colours were fine for office stuff, but it was worthwhile tracking down the 256-colour driver for t'internet, scanner and Photoshop2.5/PaintShopPro3. 640x480 screen.
 
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