My first PC was actually purchased by my parents before I was even born.
It was a Windows 95 PC with 16MB of Ram and a Pentium 150Mhz. It did have a dedicated GPU but I don't remember exactly which one. I still have it somewhere in my house, maybe I'll find it one day and take some nice photos
4. I learned to read from an educational game that came in 50+ floppies.I'm curious - At what age did you get your first PC? I was 31 when I got my first PC in 1984.
I think I was around 11 or 12.I'm curious - At what age did you get your first PC? I was 31 when I got my first PC in 1984.
I did my first build in 1985. The internet might have existed in it's infancy then but I certainly didn't have access to it. No manuals or books, I just went to a computer show, bought all the parts and took them home and assembled them. My first build was a 4.77/8 Mhz 8088 cpu, 640K Ram, CGA video with 16K, a single 360 fdd and a 20 MB hdd. The mobo I bought came with a really early Taiwanese BIOS that wasn't very good so I actually copied the BIOS ROM chips from an IBM XT and put them in my home-built.Built my first pc when I was 12, would have been much easier to do if I had the internet instead of only a couple of manuals. I built the pc in 1997 and I just remember that it was a P200 MMX, and that I chose a terrible case with a hinged motherboard side panel and having to connect or disconnect cables with one hand every time I opened or closed the damn thing .
I think I had a Tandy 1000; it was definitely a Tandy. I remember it had the big 5 1/4" floppy drive and NO hard drive. You had to load the program onto RAM, then pull that disk out and load your storage media in the slot. Really, all I got done on that computer was play hangman, which is pretty much why I'm a novice geek today. I didn't take it too seriously back then. I mean who needed a computer when you had an electric typewriter! Sorry, I lost some of you guys at 5 1/4", didn't I?
My first modem was 1200 baud, it was a screamer compared to the 300 baud modem that came with my sister's computer.Remember the 2400 baud modem. Took like five minutes to download a low res gif line by line. Then I thought I'd reached the pinnacle with the 14,400 modem. We've come quite a way with data transmission.