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Subject: OT - what was your first computer

gillbrooks opened this issue on Mar 05, 2007 · 57 posts


Acadia posted Wed, 14 March 2007 at 10:56 AM

I got my first computer in March 2000.

AMD K6 processor
300 something speed.
Onboard sound and graphic card
8 gigs hard drive (sales guy told me that it would last me years and years, LMAO)
Windows 98SE
64MB SDRAM

It came with peripherals:

Acer Scanner
Epson dot matrix printer
Speakers

The computer was a total lemon and crashed all of the time with blue screens of death dozens and dozens of times per day.  It ran great post reformat, but add anything to it and it started to crash.

The scanner and printer while new, were 1997 models based on a sticker on the scanner that said "Get ready for Windows 98".

The only thing I still have from that system is the keyboard and the speakers.  I haven't heard sound from newer speakers, but the sound from these to me sounds pretty clear so I still use them.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi