I was chatting with a buddy on AOL and we were talking about our first computers and how lame they are compared to our current machines. The first one I got was a Acer I got at a swap meet. It was running Windows 3.1 and had no modem, we had a 14.4k one put in (this was early to mid 90s). it could not surf the web as the web was not really what it is now. I gave it to a friend of mine who used it for his screenwriting project. our first "REAL" computer was a newer Acer Aspire desktop. with a whopping 166MHz processor (later upgraded to a 200MHz with MMX 'remember that
?', and 16mb of memory (upgraded to 32mb). It only had a CDROM a 33.6 modem (upgraded to a true 56k one). It was a decent machine it had windows 95 but we upgraded to 98 later on. the funny thing is we got it on black friday with a 14" monitor and a cheapy lexmark printer that only had one ink cart slot (you had to swap from black ink to color ink if you planed on printing in color
). for a super deal of 999.99
!. compared to my current custom built tower with dual core 3.4ghz processor, 4 gigs of memory and a 500 gig HD with DVD burner that i got for less than 300 bucks in parts and labor that old Acer was like a big calculator by comparison. so, what was your first PC (or mac, but we won't hold that against you
)?
