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What was your first computer?
I got my first PC back in 1993. It was a used 286 my father bought for me from a co-worker. Specifics. were as follows:
Processor: 286 AT 20 Mhz
Memory: 2 MB
Harddrive: 40 MB
Monitor: 14" really bad one
Of course no modem or networking stuff although BBS does exist at those times.
It was 'bundled' with the following programs:
Windows 3.1
A very popular banner design app at that time (I spent half an hour trying to remember it but in vain)
Prince of Persia 2
A year or so later, I replaced it with a 386SX 16 Mhz full-tower PC. I bought an extra chip of 2 MB memory to enhance the new machine performance. I could run Print Shop Deluxe on it!
The next big jump was in 1997. This time it was my uncle who brought me a Pentium I with MMX technology days after it hits the markets. He brings it with from Switzerland & was 100% assembled by him. Specifics. were:
Pentium I 200Mhz with MMX technology
32 MB RAM
8 MB AGP Matrox Mellinium video card
4 GB WD harddrive
17" regular monitor
24x CreativeLabs CD-ROM
Win95, Office97, and many many others. The first game I installed on it was Mortal Kombat.
Now, I've got a P4 3.2Ghz with 1 GB of RAM machine.
2 WD harddrives, 120GB each.
19" LG Flatron monitor
nVidia GeForce 5700LE 256MB video card
LG 52x CD-ROM & LG Super Multi DVD drive.
It's been a long journey indeed. I'm now an avid computer user, but very unfortunately I've learned nothing at programming all these years until I just began with HTML/CSS tweaking, and PHP/MySQL are on my schedule, all thanks to vBulletin.
So, what was your first computer? And how did you progress with PCs (or MACs or both) over the years?
Processor: 286 AT 20 Mhz
Memory: 2 MB
Harddrive: 40 MB
Monitor: 14" really bad one
Of course no modem or networking stuff although BBS does exist at those times.
It was 'bundled' with the following programs:
Windows 3.1
A very popular banner design app at that time (I spent half an hour trying to remember it but in vain)
Prince of Persia 2
A year or so later, I replaced it with a 386SX 16 Mhz full-tower PC. I bought an extra chip of 2 MB memory to enhance the new machine performance. I could run Print Shop Deluxe on it!
The next big jump was in 1997. This time it was my uncle who brought me a Pentium I with MMX technology days after it hits the markets. He brings it with from Switzerland & was 100% assembled by him. Specifics. were:
Pentium I 200Mhz with MMX technology
32 MB RAM
8 MB AGP Matrox Mellinium video card
4 GB WD harddrive
17" regular monitor
24x CreativeLabs CD-ROM
Win95, Office97, and many many others. The first game I installed on it was Mortal Kombat.
Now, I've got a P4 3.2Ghz with 1 GB of RAM machine.
2 WD harddrives, 120GB each.
19" LG Flatron monitor
nVidia GeForce 5700LE 256MB video card
LG 52x CD-ROM & LG Super Multi DVD drive.
It's been a long journey indeed. I'm now an avid computer user, but very unfortunately I've learned nothing at programming all these years until I just began with HTML/CSS tweaking, and PHP/MySQL are on my schedule, all thanks to vBulletin.
So, what was your first computer? And how did you progress with PCs (or MACs or both) over the years?
- Few years later, we got a 286, now that was a fast machine.
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