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What was your first computer? - And why did you get it? (and more autistic details that almost no one would care about)
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My first family computer was a Mac, back when Apple computers were less expensive than PCs. I can't remember the exact model, but I know it ran OS 8 at one point.
My first own computer was a PC than ran Windows 95. All I did was play some games and occasionally logged into AOL's Kids Only section. As a kid, I wasn't very much of a computer person.
My first own computer was a PC than ran Windows 95. All I did was play some games and occasionally logged into AOL's Kids Only section. As a kid, I wasn't very much of a computer person.
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Right my first point of call would be to make sure I disabled anything option at boot that you don't use - if you download something like CCleaner you can turn off things without risking disabling anything essential for the OS to boot, after that I'd also check Windows Update for new drivers - If your not comfertable doing this I can do it for you with something like Team Viewer.
Looking at the spec's though your kinda shit out of luck, from what I can see it shipped originally late in the XP Vista handover period so it's only got a C2 duo processor and 2gb of 2gb of DDR2 533 - lower spec DDR2 is kind becoming difficult to come by as most of the fab shops have moved on so while you can upgrade it to the max supported 4gb you are probably running a X86 version of Win7 that can only really address 3.5GB, the good news is it's a SATA HDD in your system so you can buy a cheap SSD and boost your performance a fair bit but this will either require you to make a fresh install of Win7 of use something like Ghost or a Linux live CD using DD to copy your current OS from one disk to the other then you'll need install the SSD into your laptop, the best an easiest option in this case would be for you to just install a fresh copy of Win7 onto the SSD then copy your data of the older disk.
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My first experiences using a home computer were with Windows 3.0 or 3.5 or somesuch, first time one was replaced but still in good enough condition to be passed down to me for my personal use was a Windows 98 eMachine with a 3GB hard drive.
I used it mostly to dick around in MSPaint, write fanfiction in Notepad, and make games using ZZT or the OHRRPGCE. Since I didn't have Internet access in the home, most of my abominations from that era are lost to history.
I used it mostly to dick around in MSPaint, write fanfiction in Notepad, and make games using ZZT or the OHRRPGCE. Since I didn't have Internet access in the home, most of my abominations from that era are lost to history.
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My first family computer was some shitty desktop that ran windows 95, I mainly just played neopets on it and used it for encarta for homework.
My first computer that I personally owned was a used iMac G3 I got from a thrift shop, but I just called it an apple blueberry. I mainly just played Bugdom on it and used it for school.
My first computer that I personally owned was a used iMac G3 I got from a thrift shop, but I just called it an apple blueberry. I mainly just played Bugdom on it and used it for school.
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Years back my mother order this $1000 plus computer off the Home Shopping Network. Yes, you read that right. Took a good while to arrive and was pre-built with all these programs like AOL internet, etc.
I remember how despite the faults it was an okay computer. Unfortunately something happened to it, where we had to send it in to get repaired. I don't remember what. But whatever it was, the "computer repair" fucked up the computer. I haven't seen another computer do this, what they did is made it where my old computer would randomly reset. Like say shut down, then turn back on. Was horrible when I not only had AOL; which is slow as hell, but I wanted to get both movies and songs. The lesson here is never ever order your computers from the Home Shopping Network!
I remember how despite the faults it was an okay computer. Unfortunately something happened to it, where we had to send it in to get repaired. I don't remember what. But whatever it was, the "computer repair" fucked up the computer. I haven't seen another computer do this, what they did is made it where my old computer would randomly reset. Like say shut down, then turn back on. Was horrible when I not only had AOL; which is slow as hell, but I wanted to get both movies and songs. The lesson here is never ever order your computers from the Home Shopping Network!
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My family got a TI-99 4/A in 1981. We had gotten most of the common add ons for it by the time it was killed off in 1983. After that the things were so cheap that I was given my own. Mine didn't have the expansion box with 32K and a disk drive, but I thought it was really cool to have a computer of my own when I was 6. But by 1985 all the neighbor kids had their own personal Commodore 64s.
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I was given a computer as a reward for getting the highest score on the SAT. I don't remember what the local organization was that did the computers, but there was also a local bank that gave you money for every hundred points you were over 1000, so seventeen year old me was given a check for a large sum of money on senior honors night. It wasn't a scholarship, it was just free money. Anyway, the computer was an HP Pavilion. That computer and 56k dialup. Changed my whole life.
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some 1999-vintage Toshiba laptop
I remember trying to play Minecraft on it one time. It actually ran at a playable framerate.
I remember trying to play Minecraft on it one time. It actually ran at a playable framerate.
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Packard Bell PC that came with Win 3.1 was my family's first computer, I guess you could say it was "mine". Came with all the hot shit at the time, lots of DOS games, Warcraft 2, Civ 2. I believe this was around 1995 or 1996 or so. Couldn't play many of the newer games coming out because no Win 95 or 3dfx card, but it would run Doom, various Build engine games, I believe it also ran Quake 1 but I might be mistaken on that.
My dad and I put a 266 MHz Pentium MMX into it at some point because it came with something horrendously slow in stock trim. I remember once wiping it accidentally while fucking about, prompting a visit from the local tech guy and an undeletion of the C: (I have no idea how I did it but I did it somehow).
My dad and I put a 266 MHz Pentium MMX into it at some point because it came with something horrendously slow in stock trim. I remember once wiping it accidentally while fucking about, prompting a visit from the local tech guy and an undeletion of the C: (I have no idea how I did it but I did it somehow).
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Guessing that you somehow put in a Pentium 2 in there? Or did you just put in an AMD K6?
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Memory is super hazy. I think I might be misremembering and it was actually some other "MMX" CPU. I seem to remember "MMXtreme" as part of the branding (Googling gives me several results of Geocities and other pages wherein people say it's an upgrade for Packard Bells, so that might be right track).
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Yeah, which based on what people are saying wasn't much of an upgrade at all.
I do remember the PC itself having a 50mhz CPU stock, the MMX add-on supposedly bumped it to 200+ but IDK if it was really all that effective.
I was like 6-8 years old when all this was taking place, so again, rose colored glasses and decades of blunt force trauma to the head have affected my memory on this.
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First computer I used was the C64. My dad got it since he does taxes as a side job for fun, and he was able to write off part of the cost because he used it for work. I used it to play games. I don't remember much, since I was super young at the time.
The first computer that was just mine was a PC Junior. By the time I acquired it, it was the early/mid 90s. I used it mostly for writing stories and playing Sierra games.
The first computer that was just mine was a PC Junior. By the time I acquired it, it was the early/mid 90s. I used it mostly for writing stories and playing Sierra games.
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My first computer was a Librex laptop (I don't remember the model name), which had a 386 processor. I think my dad originally had it for business purposes. Being a 386, I used it for MS Paint and Notepad. Sadly, the hard drive on it seemingly went kaput after only a year, or not even a year, and I generally have good luck when it comes to hard drive longevity with computers that I use.