Subj : Re: What was your first computer?
To   : Cozmo
From : Malvinas
Date : Sat Jul 06 2024 14:42:36

My first comp was a 286 with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB HDD. It was a supersonic fighter jet back then. Everyone in my neighbourhood came to my house to check out my supercool machine... It quickly dropped down to an old tin can when newer hardware came out. That AT 286 was a gift from my uncle. A few years after I changed it for a computer I bought myself with money I had earned working. That was a 486 DX4 100Mhz with 8MB of RAM. That machine I modded and expanded beyond recognition!! That's when my 'computers as a hobby' started to become something in my life.
I added a mouse, a trident color board with 1MB of RAM, a 128k dial-up modem, a matrix printer with a somewhat more advanced hardware (EPSON AP2000), a CD-ROM reader drive...
I got better at my programming skills, I started connecting to BBS boards and had a board installed myself, taking calls, for a few months...
I have the most dearest memories of those days and all I did with that computer.
The DX4 ran at 100Mhz. It lacked the MMX extensions, but went 10mhz faster than the then-current Pentium 1 90mhz chip.
Real fond memories...
Anyhow, cheers!!

Malvinas.

Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas!

.... Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas.

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