Hi Guys
Since this is Windows discussion I'm interested in what everyone had for their first computer, and when and why you got it.
My first computer was a Radio Shack Model 100 or something like that, running Windows 3.1.
I had previously worked on one barrowed for the summer from the Grand Rapids school system.
It had a 120 mb hard drive, 4 mb of ram, and a 25 Hz processor.
As I remember is cost about $900 and had a 14" super VGA (800 by 600) monitor.
It had a 5.25 and a 3.5 floppy drive, and I added a sound card, my first foray into the inside of a computer.
I don't even remember what it had for a video card.
I had a black and white HP scanner and an HP laser printer.
I ran Adobe Photoshop 2.5, Coral Draw, and Aldus PageMaker on it along with Ultima The Black Gate, my first computer RPG, and I had a Chess program.
It was really slow!
My friend Paul saw mine and went and bought one too, so he could play Ultima on it.
He's 75 now (I'm 72) and we still play Lord of the Rings Online together several times a week while we talk on Skype.
I went with a PC instead of an Apple because the GR school system gave me a copy of PageMaker for the PC, (it was expensive to buy) and a set of disks for Photoshop as part of a deal to do some work for them. I've been upgrading from these original numbers ever since.
It's amazing how much things have changed.
My first computer had one hundred twenty megabytes of hard drive space, my new computer has two million, three million if you count the external drives.
I never even imagined computers like the ones we have today or computer games like Dragon Age II which I have just started playing.
The first 3D game I had was Tomb Raider and I’ve been a Lara Croft fan ever since.
I've played every TR game ever made multiple times.
What did other people have for their first computer, and what did you do with it?
Mike
Since this is Windows discussion I'm interested in what everyone had for their first computer, and when and why you got it.
My first computer was a Radio Shack Model 100 or something like that, running Windows 3.1.
I had previously worked on one barrowed for the summer from the Grand Rapids school system.
It had a 120 mb hard drive, 4 mb of ram, and a 25 Hz processor.
As I remember is cost about $900 and had a 14" super VGA (800 by 600) monitor.
It had a 5.25 and a 3.5 floppy drive, and I added a sound card, my first foray into the inside of a computer.
I don't even remember what it had for a video card.
I had a black and white HP scanner and an HP laser printer.
I ran Adobe Photoshop 2.5, Coral Draw, and Aldus PageMaker on it along with Ultima The Black Gate, my first computer RPG, and I had a Chess program.
It was really slow!
My friend Paul saw mine and went and bought one too, so he could play Ultima on it.
He's 75 now (I'm 72) and we still play Lord of the Rings Online together several times a week while we talk on Skype.
I went with a PC instead of an Apple because the GR school system gave me a copy of PageMaker for the PC, (it was expensive to buy) and a set of disks for Photoshop as part of a deal to do some work for them. I've been upgrading from these original numbers ever since.
It's amazing how much things have changed.
My first computer had one hundred twenty megabytes of hard drive space, my new computer has two million, three million if you count the external drives.
I never even imagined computers like the ones we have today or computer games like Dragon Age II which I have just started playing.
The first 3D game I had was Tomb Raider and I’ve been a Lara Croft fan ever since.
I've played every TR game ever made multiple times.
What did other people have for their first computer, and what did you do with it?
Mike