10-31-2009, 08:35 AM
(10-28-2009, 08:31 AM)Guerreiro Wrote: What was your first ever PC?
Mine was a :
486dx2 8MHz (16 with Turbo!!)
a whopping 2Mb RAM (extended later with another 2Mb)
20 MB HDD
a soundblaster 16 audio card (or soundcard)
cannot remember videocard, but should be very basic.
So what was yours?
Probably a no-name, generic grey box, Circa round about 1996, with a 486 processor I think, Windows 98,
and maybe 2 or 4 MB RAM, later upgraded to 8 MB, with a 20 GB HD I believe.
I have still got it, but in my brother's attic, a few miles away.
Hmm, I wonder what is on it now?
A Soundblaster compatible, soundcard, with quite a basic graphics card,
but probably not TrueColor, but most likely Highcolor, something that I installed myself, along with the soundcard.
BTW - I did find a PC in the street one time, in the pouring rain.
When I picked it up, quite a lot of water drained out of the holes
at the rear of it.
I carried it home, but it was really heayweight, opened it up, (it had a double kind of 'shell', if you can call it that,
with an inner metal case, as well as the outer metal case), and dried it out, using a hairdryer, then left it overnight, before switching it on.
Wow! It was a massive 25 MHz, If I remember correctly, with an equally low amount of RAM.
I don't think it was Windows though, it didn't seem to have any type of GUI, just a black screen with text I think.
The PC itself, contained somebody's financial details, among other things, but I didn't look at everything.
I think that I still have that PC as well somewhere...;)
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius
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