Originally posted by: Noema
My first computer was a Commodor 64 with an external floppy drive. It also had a cartridge slot and the word processor was IN a cartdrige! I didn't really use it for games; rather, I liked to write very, very simple BASIC stuff on it.
First PC was an Acer 386DX-33 with 2 Megs of RAM and a 40 MB HD (which was quite low even for then...circa 1992). I got it for games exclusively, though I was the cool kid at school for turning in papers written in Word. I later got one of those Logitech handheld grayscale scanners and I thought it was the most amazing thing in the world.
First PC I built myself: 486DX2-66 with 8 Megs of RAM and a 500 MB HD and a 4x CD-ROM drive with Windows 95 (which ran like hell, by the way). I later put a 14.4 Kbps Creative Labs Modem Blaster (Which came with a Warcraft demo...woot!) on it, giving me access for the first time to the internet.
Originally posted by: montag451
Someone i knew years ago used to be a programmer on the old punchcard systems.
He moved to a new company, and changed the room-sized computer from 12K to 24K by bypassing the manufacturer's lock. Saved the company about $20000!