Did you build it yourself? What OS did you use? Did you have internet access?
Feel free to outline the component brand names and model (if you remember them) and let us know if you still have access to the computer.
This was in Jan 1997. It was running Windows 95 (Windows 98 wasn’t released yet). No internet (we got dialup later in the year; maybe in the late summer). It was built by my parent’s colleague (company system admin), I was too young to build my own PC.
*Pentium I 133 MHz *1.5 GB HDD *CD-ROM Drive *FDD *Sound Blaster 32 (remember getting Sound Blaster Live! In the next build). *32 MB RAM *S3 ViRGE 325 (4 MB RAM if I remember correctly).
I think the colleague who built it sold it off when we got a new build.
P2 with MMX. Think we ended up getting a Voodoo 2 for it as well. Same SoundBlaster and some ridiculously small disk and RAM. Win95. It even had a turbo button and a locking power button.
It was an upgrade from our Amiga 1200.
Fond memories of shoulder surfing the BT guy when he came to our house - peeked a test number for dialup and got about half a year of internet for free.
Had Turbo button as well. Even back then (I was a pre-teen), I didn’t really understand the logic of the turbo button, I think I had it on all the time.
Popping the thing open to short the power switch when it was ‘locked’ was my introduction to PC internals, electronics in general, and disobedience :)
I’d have been about 8 at the time. Good years.
After that I think we had some nondescript P3 beige box and then went to a Haswell P4. Ran hot as lava.