configuration of your first computer
By pankajgarg
@pankajgarg (797)
India
June 30, 2011 6:44pm CST
well i bought my first personal computer in 1997 and i still remember working on its windows 95 operating system.It was very useful at that time. wordpad was the most frequently used word processor and the hardware was
512 mb hard disk
128 mb ram
cyrix/ pentium I processor
no sound card
a floppy drive, not even a cd drive
but still i loved it a lot and have preserved it till now.
do you remember the configuration of your first pc or have you preserved it till now????
1 response
@hanuma34 (819)
• India
2 Jul 11
Hello pankaj, I admire your sentiments. I do not recollect working with a PC with that configuration, let alone owning one. Of course, I worked on PCs with windows95, 10GB hard disk, CDROM, color monitor having sound card, ethernet card etc. Virtually a full PC as it is now. If I recollect correctly the RAM was 64MB! MSOFFice95, having MSWORD was installed, not WORD processor. Prior to that I used a toy PC known as ZX SPECTRUM, but I am not aware of its configuration. I bought my own PC in 2000, with 40GB hard disk, CDROM 32x, 128MB RAM and so on. Upgraded the configuration now to 17inch monitor, 160GB harddisk, CD-DVD RW, with OS Windows XP (earlier I was using Windows 2000 for a long time). At times we can dwell on the old times.
@pankajgarg (797)
• India
2 Jul 11
yes and i even sometimes plug in my old computer to play various dos games..
Thanks for the response...
@rashima (72)
• India
2 Jul 11
First I worked on a PC at my office.
Even, I didn't know how to power-on a PC!
You know what kind of PC was it? It was called PC AT. It had a 40MB hard drive and 512K of RAM and worked on DOS.
It had a 14" monochrome monitor and a 512KB 5-1/2" floppy drive.
I was using WordStar word processor and Lotus 1-2-3 for worksheets.
Now my children use laptops with i5 processor and 4GB RAM that run on Windows 7 and Ubuntu.
@pankajgarg (797)
• India
2 Jul 11
The computing power has grown enormously due to the advancement of semiconductors as predicted by the moore's law and i am sure the greatest things in the computer age are yet to come....
Have a nice day...
