Reply 120 of 132, by Socket3
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I don't exacly know what computer it was - but first time using a computer was in 1993, at a computer lab in a local school. I believe it was either a 386-DX40 or a 486DX-33. It was running DOS and windows 3.11 for workgorups. It was such an important experience for me that I requested I be moved there in middleschool, as my previous school did not have a computer lab. When I was enrolled there I also got my first PC - a 133Mhz 586 witch I was just learning how to use.
I remember one day in middleschool I was messing around in the (empty) computer lab, starting up Notron Commander and looking at system info. Some of the PCs were 40MHz 386's, others were 33 or 66 MHz 486-DX's. Later on the school upgraded half of the 486 machines with 100MHz DX4's and 8MB of ram, and the 386's with the leftover parts from the older 486 machines, so the whole lab had 486 PCs (despite them being obsolete at that point) apart from the server witch was a 60MHz pentium.
All computers had a 14" color monitor, and had one of these two cases:
Older 386 and ISA only 33MHz 486 PCs came in these, or something very very close to it:
Newer 486's (66 and later 100Mhz) came in this model case:
Aaah, memories. We used to spend hours playing Doom, Heretic or Descent. Descent ran like ass tough. I remember only using the limited number of DX4-100 PCs for descent, and even with 3-4 people it still lagged like crazy.