Am cleaning out a file cabinet and came across the invoice for my first computer which I had built by a local company in July 2000. Windows 98 SE, 64 MB RAM, an Nvidia Vanta AGP video card, dial up modem, a tiny little HDD, and a 17" behemoth of a monitor.... all for $1,555!!
The last high end gamer that I built wasn't even that much!
Chuckling at My First Computer
Chuckling at My First Computer
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.
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I remember the first computer I ever bought had a 100 MB hard drive and I thought there was no way I’d ever fill that up 
In reality it took less than a year. That was in the days when computer technology was expanding by leaps and bounds and we all had to get new ones on the regular to keep up. And now I hold the world in the palm of my hand with my phone. Who’d’ve thunk? 
In reality it took less than a year. That was in the days when computer technology was expanding by leaps and bounds and we all had to get new ones on the regular to keep up. And now I hold the world in the palm of my hand with my phone. Who’d’ve thunk? 
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I was telling someone else about this and we laughed at how our phones are such powerful computers by themselves!
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When life gives you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.
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My first computer was a Commodore Pet - I thought it was amazing when I got a 220K floppy drive!
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My first was a Windows 98 SE. I still have it and it probably still works. There was never anything wrong with it. I upgraded to a new computer Windows ME so I could play more advanced games. Who would have thought I would be going backwards, XP, to play older games.
Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again...
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I have kept all my computers, and my first is a Win95. The difficulty playing it is hooking it up to monitors and keyboards. I have the old cables with the round connectors and some adapters.My Win98 still works, and I've played one of the old Puzz3D games on it as recently as a few years ago.
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Started with an old DOS system, a 386. Then got a Windows 3.1 system (a 486DX) followed by a Windows 98SE system, an XP system and my current Windows 7 system. Don't play much on my desktop system anymore though. More on my laptop and consoles/handhelds.
It's so great to see computer develop throughout the years. Recognize myself in Puffy's story about buying a new hard drive on a computer convention and thinking it will never be filled. But games, photo's and video's got big real fast.
It's so great to see computer develop throughout the years. Recognize myself in Puffy's story about buying a new hard drive on a computer convention and thinking it will never be filled. But games, photo's and video's got big real fast.