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What was your first computer?
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Man, us early 90's kids got stuck with the ugly ducklings.
Some DTK something or other handed down from my grandfather; ran Windows 95, had a 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drive, with the wonderful bonus of having a CD-ROM drive that my grandfather had bought and upgraded himself. It never caused me any problems, I had countless hours of fun playing games, and also just playing around in the OS. (Of course, back then blue screens were something that just kind of happened almost randomly, often for seemingly no reason at all, and were more often than not, disregardful annoyances that you just accepted as part of owning a computer.
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Some DTK something or other handed down from my grandfather; ran Windows 95, had a 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drive, with the wonderful bonus of having a CD-ROM drive that my grandfather had bought and upgraded himself. It never caused me any problems, I had countless hours of fun playing games, and also just playing around in the OS. (Of course, back then blue screens were something that just kind of happened almost randomly, often for seemingly no reason at all, and were more often than not, disregardful annoyances that you just accepted as part of owning a computer.
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woo! Now I can guess the age of one of the mods
.Man, us early 90's kids got stuck with the ugly ducklings.
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Some DTK something or other handed down from my grandfather; ran Windows 95, had a 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drive, with the wonderful bonus of having a CD-ROM drive that my grandfather had bought and upgraded himself. It never caused me any problems, I had countless hours of fun playing games, and also just playing around in the OS. (Of course, back then blue screens were something that just kind of happened almost randomly, often for seemingly no reason at all, and were more often than not, disregardful annoyances that you just accepted as part of owning a computer.
Now I feel old. Get off my lawn
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woo! Now I can guess the age of one of the mods
Yup, I'm an old fart
tbh, though, the early days of computing were the most exciting, I remember going to computer club meetings chit chatting with hobbyists on all sorts of crazy stuff. The industry has matured, and while computers have improved light years, it lost some of that useful exuberance, or maybe it was me that did