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10-year anniversary

January 3, 2003 at 11:47 am · Comments (1)

Well, it’s officially been over ten years since my family got our first computer. (I’m glad we still had the invoice.) What was it, you ask? Well, as you can see from the first picture above, look at all we got in this sweet deal for under $1600 (these are all my best guesses – my memory of it has kinda gone with the time):

  • A Compu-Add (no longer in business) 425slcLP (486?)
  • 2 MB RAM
  • 80 MB HDD
  • 3 1/2 inch floppy drive
  • 5 1/4 inch floppy drive
  • 2-button serial mouse
  • Windows 3.1 (oh yah baby)
  • Parallel printer cable
  • Panasonic 24-pin dot matrix printer
  • Surge protector

What a deal! Anyway, here are a couple of pictures from Christmas 1992; you can click on either to see bigger versions. The first is me unwrapping my first computer (my reaction today if I got the same computer for Christmas: oh, cool, an antique!), and the second shows how short of a time it took me to set it up.

Ah, the good ol’ days – the days I had no idea what the Internet was and I’d never seen a start menu or an HTML fragment.

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Comments

Alan January 31, 2008 at 6:32 am #

Wow, your hair looks the same. That first picture is neat, genuine excitement. I must of got in the game about the same time, my first computer was a packard bell 486 with 100 MB drive. I had windows 3.11 for workgroups

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