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.

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPM
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    1 day ago

    2x 360kb floppy drives (5 1/4"). Eventually upgraded with a 40 Mb hard drive. The salesman said that was so big we’d never fill it up.

    This was before my time (FDDs were on their last legs by 1997), but I am guessing at one point dual FDDs was a good thing to have.

    The salesman’s pitch sounds so quaint in retrospective.