First post, by iulianv
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Please excuse me if these have been discussed before (if they have, the threads should be sticky 😀), but I'm curious about the following:
1. how old are you? 😀
2. what was the first PC you owned?
3. what moments impressed you most in your "computing" life?
Collateral thoughts (like computers you saw / played with before owning yours, your second computer, etc) are also welcome. So, shall we begin?
1. 32 years old
2. AMD 5x86/133 (couldn't afford P100), 12MB RAM, 850MB HDD, CL-GD5434 1MB PCI, bought in 1999 I believe
3. the first 486 I saw (DX2-66/16MB/500MB, was also the first time I saw Linux running), the first time I saw Quake2 played on Voodoo, the fog and shiny floors in Unreal 😀
Years before I could get my own PC I used to play with the ones my dad had at work - a 386 (SX-16 I believe, don't remember the RAM but the HDD was a whopping 20MB, DoubleSpaced to 40) and a 286 (don't remember any config details, but it was running FoxPro accounting software and took a whole day to print paychecks for a few hundreds employees on an A3 dot matrix printer 😀).
My second PC was a huge leap forward - Chaintech 5AGM2, AMD K6-2/300, 64MB, Diamond Monster Fusion (16MB AGP Banshee), and since then there were too many to count...