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What were the specs/components of your first computer/PC? (lemmy.world)
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Did you build it yourself? What OS did you use? Did you have internet access?

Feel free to outline the component brand names and model (if you remember them) and let us know if you still have access to the computer.

This was in Jan 1997. It was running Windows 95 (Windows 98 wasn't released yet). No internet (we got dialup later in the year; maybe in the late summer). It was built by my parent's colleague (company system admin), I was too young to build my own PC.

*Pentium I 133 MHz *1.5 GB HDD *CD-ROM Drive *FDD *Sound Blaster 32 (remember getting Sound Blaster Live! In the next build). *32 MB RAM *S3 ViRGE 325 (4 MB RAM if I remember correctly).

I think the colleague who built it sold it off when we got a new build.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Commodore VIC20 first, with the cassette deck and memory expansion card. I can't remember now what size the expansion was, but we couldn't play some games without it.

My first proper PC was an Advent 486 SX25, with either one or two megabytes of memory on board. My brother convinced our parents that it would be good for school work, but I added a single speed CD reader and a generic sound card to it and got Doom for my birthday.

That became my PC, so I upgraded the RAM to 4MB and the CD drive to a blisteringly fast quad speed! Crazy, I know :o

I've actually got it at home at the moment, but don't know if it works. It was in my parent's attic when there was a leak near it, so I've brought it here to let it dry for a while before I risk doing anything with it :)