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 paid 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.
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Hehe.. Interesting.. 😀
Hmm.. for me, I bought my first PC during my 2nd year Uni. The PC was running on Windows 98, 128RAM, AMD. Then I upgraded it during my final year for my thesis to Windows 2000 Server, 512RAM.
Then I passed this PC to my brother and he used that for playing computer games. Then I was using company PC and laptop to online for 5 years.
This year during the PIKOM PC fair, I bought a dell laptop with a good deal RM2599. Inspiron 1420 dell notebook, 2GB RAM, 120GB HD, Vista. 😀
rojak brand, AMD 486, run on windows 3.11, 64MB ram. i remember having to connect to jaring manually… using winsock dialer.
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… :hehe:
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!
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
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.
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.
My first PC was NEC, running on windows 3.11, darn good that time, forgot where I left it … :silly:
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.
Wah… so nice. My first PC was a 8088! :waiting:
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.
saw that pc on display in ur dining room. since ur dad is still using it, no sense in throwing it away. :hehe: my 1st pc is history. dunno where i stored it but twas’ a lot older than urs. very fond of it… remembered playing golf on it, heh!heh! 😀
Dear All, thanks for sharing. Now I’m working hard to buy a lappy.