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My first family computer (in elementary school) was a Compaq Presario 9232. I still have it to this day and it works great. I recently refurbed it (cleaned it inside and out, new CMOS battery, overclocked the Pentium 120MHz to 133MHz, added a Dreamblaster S1 Wavetable, upgraded onboard VRAM to 2MB, added a Matrox Millennium PCI, replaced the failed 1.2GB Quantum Fireball with a 4GB Compact Flash IDE adapter, and added a Linksys LNE100TX NIC)
I also recently found the original restore media on Ebay. I threw away the original restore disks around 2001 like an idiot thinking I'd never need them again.. haha. (I remember doing it too) So, I'll be putting the original Windows 95 load on it. Right now I just have a generic Windows 95 install on there without all the lovely Compaq bloatware.
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This was the first family PC in the house. I remember my dad buying it at Circuit City. I was with him, checking out the PC games while he was talking to the sales person.Packard Bell 486 DX2/66. Bought it from some catalog. Started building my own a few years later.
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I seem to remember a fair amount of PC games back then were DOS based. Having to free up memory was sometimes a pain. But it's all a blur now.This was the first family PC in the house. I remember my dad buying it at Circuit City. I was with him, checking out the PC games while he was talking to the sales person.
First PC that was mine was an eMachines etower 600is. I hacked and modified the shit out of it until building my first PC 3 years later. One of the first things I did was ditch the included Windows ME install and go with a fresh upgrade to Windows 98 SE .
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Timex Sinclair 1000. 2048 BYTES of RAM. I also got the 16k RAM expansion module (block handing off back of computer in pic). Took 5-6 MINUTES to load a 16k program from an audio cassette tape player.
This was the first family PC in the house. I remember my dad buying it at Circuit City. I was with him, checking out the PC games while he was talking to the sales person.
First PC that was mine was an eMachines etower 600is. I hacked and modified the shit out of it until building my first PC 3 years later. One of the first things I did was ditch the included Windows ME install and go with a fresh upgrade to Windows 98 SE .
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Technically this is my first PC.
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Then I bought a Commodore 64.
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All good fun except for the trick-of-the-day was to INTENTIONALLY have an error so you needed to buy the next mag for corrections. Evil as you can get. Errata corrections were by design. Unless we believe they never tested the code? LOL!My first was a Vic 20.
I remember typing pages upon pages of Dos code from a magazine (don't remember name of mag) just to make a bird looking thing flap its wings
all across the screen, and god help you if you miss typed something along the way.
Gdam I'm old.
I think the early-mid 1980s was the most exciting time for personal computers. TS-1000, TRS/80, Ti99/4a, Vic-20/C-64, Atari 400/800/1200xl, Apple ][+, ][e, early hand build PCs. Fun times.
This was the first family PC in the house. I remember my dad buying it at Circuit City. I was with him, checking out the PC games while he was talking to the sales person.
First PC that was mine was an eMachines etower 600is. I hacked and modified the shit out of it until building my first PC 3 years later. One of the first things I did was ditch the included Windows ME install and go with a fresh upgrade to Windows 98 SE .
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