I actually had a Packard Bell before the pentium II Dell XPS. It was a peice of shit.
But it was good enough to get me on Prodigy, AOL and the other service. (what was it called?)
Kind of like Packard Bell before them.
We had a friend whose brother was some mucky-muck at one of the big-name retail computer places...Comp USA maybe?I actually had a Packard Bell before the pentium II Dell XPS. It was a peice of shit.
But it was good enough to get me on Prodigy, AOL and the other service. (what was it called?)
CompuServe!I actually had a Packard Bell before the pentium II Dell XPS. It was a peice of shit.
But it was good enough to get me on Prodigy, AOL and the other service. (what was it called?)
Dual 5.25?!?!? You effing baller.We had a friend whose brother was some mucky-muck at one of the big-name retail computer places...Comp USA maybe?
She got us a deal on a "gently used" Packard Bell 386 with Windows 3.0. (1992-93 IIRC) Horrible POS. Still...it was miles ahead of the NCR 8088 with dual 5 1/4" floppies I'd been using and tweaking for a couple of years.
Prebuilt? We had to acid wash our own Apple ][ clone mb. Well it was my cousin's and I just stirred it a bit.I remember our first real PC was an IBM Aptiva with Windows 95. It came with a whole bunch of games (most notably: Pitfall The Mayan Adventure, Hyperman, Cyberia, and Silent Steel). Then we upgraded to a Compaq Presario with Windows 98. I eventually put a Quantum3D Raven card in that thing. Lots of good times on that Compaq.
I actually had a Packard Bell before the pentium II Dell XPS. It was a peice of shit.
But it was good enough to get me on Prodigy, AOL and the other service. (what was it called?)
i don't see my c64 on there
I remember our first real PC was an IBM Aptiva with Windows 95. It came with a whole bunch of games (most notably: Pitfall The Mayan Adventure, Hyperman, Cyberia, and Silent Steel). Then we upgraded to a Compaq Presario with Windows 98. I eventually put a Quantum3D Raven card in that thing. Lots of good times on that Compaq.
We started out with a different faux woodgrain 7-in-1 pong clone from Sears I think? Pop would hard limit our time on it. Sales dude warned him about burn-in. He'd troll us hard sometimes and boot us off during the last game of a set when things are heated and you are trash talking each other. Still a better game than LoTR: Gollum.
That was our first PC after years of owing an Apple IIc, except no CD drive as they weren't commonplace in consumer PCs when we got ours. It was actually an alright machine, other than the 240MB hard drive dying very shortly after the warranty expired. We upgraded to a 420MB and it was glorious. Did add a single speed CD-ROM drive later... should have waited, since every game required a 2X drive not long after.ahh my 486 sx 33 pack bell with win 3.1. got it from sears! it had a CD drive which was amazing, so i could play the fancy oregon trail CD
That ain't difficult.Still a better game than LoTR: Gollum.
I thought manahan has had something with Poe for over ten years?Wait, so lxskllr no longer has Poe in his avatar, but manahan does? I can't tell what is reality anymore.
Reality and parody are indistinguishable. It's Poe's law.Wait, so lxskllr no longer has Poe in his avatar, but manahan does? I can't tell what is reality anymore.
That was our first PC after years of owing an Apple IIc, except no CD drive as they weren't commonplace in consumer PCs when we got ours. It was actually an alright machine, other than the 240MB hard drive dying very shortly after the warranty expired. We upgraded to a 420MB and it was glorious. Did add a single speed CD-ROM drive later... should have waited, since every game required a 2X drive not long after.
I thought manahan has had something with Poe for over ten years?
Due be having a stash of Amontillado and got beating hearts under the floodboards of his house.
Snap, butch. Mine.Man this hit me hard. I've read this site daily for as long as I can remember. It's a part of my routine. A lot has changed in 20+ years.
Thanks for being part of the good times!