[Razer]

Cant say, I had a PC with Win98 on it and a guy came round to install broadband but the PC had a mere 32MB of RAM and needed 64MB so he couldn't, apart from that I think it was alright though..

[cheesepuff]

it can. i had a win 98/2000 laptop that uses wireless DSL

[SimonTrucker]

my first computer didn't even come with a Monitor.
A Commodore C=64.
You plugged it into your tv.
If I remember correctly, the '64' referred to the whole 64Mb of RAM.
It had a cassette drive, no discs, although you could buy a 5 1/2 inch floppy drive for it.
You'd switch on, start a tape in it's cassette drive to begin loading a game, go and brew a coffee up. Come back and hope the game had loaded, not crashed part way through loading. Some of the more complicated games, you would have to load part of the game, play that part, then load the next part and hope it would load properly or you'd loose everything you'd gained in the previous part.
You could also buy books of programming. You were supposed to copy these games, word for word, into your Commodore, save the programme onto tape and then load that game into your computer.
They were written in C++ and rarely worked.
I spent hours tracing if - thens and rewriting them so they'd work, only to find that IF I could get the programme to run at all, it was a rubbish game anyway.
We had an Office Suite too.

[rwc1969]

I remember the 64 and 128?. My brother had em all. I'd watch him trying to program cheats in the games only to make em malfunction. Jumpman and bombjacker? were a couple good ones. He screwed em both up. LOL! He would go onliine to the bulletin boards? and download all kinds of games. He's now a software developer.

[cheesepuff]

Commodore still makes PC's. i think they make gaming PC's

[Razer]

Commodore shut down and the title was bought, different company now.. Still, if the PC's are good, great!

[cheesepuff]

really?
http://pcpowerzone.com/commodore.htm...hannelid=FROOG

[Razer]

Yeah, they went out of business years ago, the name was bought and the company resurrected.

Declared bankrupt in 94, they were resurrected in 2005 and now make gaming computers.

[katana]

heres another oldie. I own one of these things, and its the most reliable computer i've ever owned. 21 years old and still going strong.

IBM Personal System 2 (PS/2) Model 30-286
10 MHz 286 processor (made by IBM, not Intel, if I remember correctly)
512KB RAM upgradable to 4MB (mine has 1MB)
20, 30 or 45MB HDD, mine has a 20MB
the things that made this PC special are:
it was the the first PC to use VGA graphics
the first PC to use PS/2 Keyboard and mouse ports
and it was the first PC to support IBM OS/2

[Razer]

What was used before VGA then?

That sounds great compared to my first PC. I don't know what was in it because I wasn't interested at the time but it ran DOS and would crash if I went to print more than 5 pages..