In my whole life, I’ve owned co-owned two desktop PCs together with my dad and sis. Oklah actually dad paid for the PCs and we’re his two ungrateful grateful daughters.
Our 1st PC…
1. is AcerMate 800
2. runs on Windows 95
3. runs on Pentium processor 75MHz, 1GB HDD (hahaha siao ar!)
4. bought in 1995
5. had undergone a few reformatting
6. had undergone countless ‘hang’ problem
7. had undergone countless piracy installation *cough*
8. had undergone countless gaming abuses
9. most important of all it’s still working
Yes it’s true. This PC is still working albeit its processing is too slow to our liking.
I had my first taste of internet and experienced MIRC and IQC with this PC. Can you believe that actually it was my dad who introduce us to MIRC?
May I present you our 12 years old desktop PC, Miss AcerMate 800 (please clap la…respect a bit ma)
You must be wondering why we still keep Miss AcerMate 800?
Dad: Throw away? No way! Do you know how much I pay for this PC?
Me: Ya I know. But then it’s very slow liao and I think nobody would want it anymore.
Dad: No matter what don’t throw away ar or I’ll smack you! 
Me: 
So what’s your first PC tale’s like? Come share with me.
Tags: PC, AcerMate 800, Windows 95, internet
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keeyit Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 8:45 amVisit keeyit
Hehe.. Interesting..
hedonistics anonymous Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 8:58 amVisit hedonistics anonymous
rojak brand, AMD 486, run on windows 3.11, 64MB ram. i remember having to connect to jaring manually… using winsock dialer.
Angie Tan Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 9:04 amVisit Angie Tan
My first PC burned itself. Committed hari-kiri when I just mentioned the word “upgrade”. No photo-liao. My first laptop died because of starvation - battery died. No juice, no power, no work. Hehehe…
jam Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 11:15 amVisit jam
Pretty much the same as you. Juz that my monitor now is not working well, gives me blur image all the time. Thinking of discard it sooner or later!
wuching Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 1:12 pmVisit wuching
my first PC was also an ACER but older than yours, it ran on Intel 486 CPU! i gave it away long time ago liao
Arth Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 2:10 pmVisit Arth
I had the slightly newer version and it was dark purplish/bluish in color also bought in 95. lol Tore it to small parts and made a few hundred bucks out of it.
ipohchai Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 2:26 pmVisit ipohchai
my 1st pc was a pentium 3 with 128m ram plus 10G hdd, 7 years liao. still working till now but I just get myself a lappy recently.
MonkeyWong Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 3:14 pmVisit MonkeyWong
My first PC was NEC, running on windows 3.11, darn good that time, forgot where I left it …
moz monster Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 5:50 pmVisit moz monster
I wrote my first BASIC program when I was 5 years old =P … and I was quite a good Turtle programmer too … all without having ever owned a PC until I was around 19, when I forced my parents to get me a PC while I was in college. Nowadays, I just use whatever my company provides me, in this case, a Compaq nc4200 laptop with 2GB RAM, 80GB HDD, Intel Centrino, XP.
Neo Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 9:03 pmVisit Neo
Wah… so nice. My first PC was a 8088!
hcfoo Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 11:50 pmVisit hcfoo
My first PC has no brand. In Cantonese, it’s called ‘chap mug’. And it’s a Pentium 1. Quite reliable and I has been using it for 5 years.
dreamcatcher Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 7:23 amVisit dreamcatcher
saw that pc on display in ur dining room. since ur dad is still using it, no sense in throwing it away.
Che-Cheh Says:
October 18th, 2007 at 9:44 pmVisit Che-Cheh
Dear All, thanks for sharing. Now I’m working hard to buy a lappy. Kekeke paid posts…mari mari