Oh that modem was in 1988... first PC came along for me in 1996ish? 486dx something. I was quite late to the PC scene.
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 7:29 AM, David Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > I got my first PC around that time. Maybe '91 or '92. Prior to that > was C64 and A500. 4MB RAM, 128MB HD. Those were the days of the turbo > button, industrial deafness from printers and an audible click > whenever you changed screen resolution. What I find interesting is > when you look at your phone compared to these old PCs. It's just > astounding. Assuming the trend continues, it wont be long before > we're all carrying "super computers" to tell everyone what we had for > breakfast. > > David > > "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes > will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" > -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama > > > On 25 May 2012 09:12, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >> Folks, it’s a Friday in late May 2012 and I just realised that this week is >> the 20th anniversary of buying my first PC. It cost $5000 from Microway and >> it had (I think) a 486-DX2 processor, 16MB of RAM a 240MB HD, two floppy >> drives and a 14" monitor, nothing else. It came with floppy discs to install >> DOS 5 and Windows 3.1, both of which had only just been released. >> >> >> >> Several weeks later I had my first encounter with the knuckle-whitening >> frustration that would be a part of my life with PCs for the next 20 years: >> I bought a Sound blaster card which was faulty. It randomly worked and then >> didn’t, and it would popup "Error 2". After days of suffering I guessed that >> it was a hardware fault and asked the Dick Smith store to let me try another >> card, and it worked immediately. This was the first piece of hardware I ever >> added, and it was cactus, what luck! Also, luckily a friend showed me how to >> install video drivers and I managed to get the 640x480 display up to the >> maximum of 1024x768 with high colour. >> >> >> >> I build a new PC for my wife last night and compared to my original PC it >> has 500 times more RAM, 5000 times the disc space and the CPU is so much >> faster and different that I’m not sure a comparison would be meaningful. >> With SSD, memory sticks, LCD screens, disc burners, networking, Internet >> etc, we’ve come a long way, thank heavens. >> >> >> >> Greg
