First pc was a family one, was a Compaq 386 with windows 3.1, that's all I can remember,
Then we went to a computer fair (used to be really common, do they still do them?)
Anyway dad bought for us something that was truly terrible, he got hoodwinked by the price and the guy selling it, it had a cyrix 133 in it, with a 500mb hard drive, I think was was 97 ISH maybe heads a bit fuzzy now, this was quite possibly the worst thing ever in the world it was constantly crashing, helped us as kids though learning how to fix or do workarounds to keep it going, eventually my dad had enough of it and gave it to a mate of his to upgrade it, ended up with a pentium 3 however his mate also put windows me and Norton antivirus on it, windows me was grossly unstable, and with Norton installed it was pot luck whether it loaded and worked or not, it took about a year of faffing and me ans dads mate doing various things trying to get it to run, eventually i had enough decided against parents request to remove Norton as loading the tray icon for that was where it always stalled and hurrah was working perfectly after, windows me turned out not to be too bad, and I put a rage 128 pro in so I could play grand Prix 3 and then 4.
At this point I started college and got rout of computers and found girls beer and cars.
A couple years later I did help my brother build a new computer but can't remember what the specs of this was all I remember was ddr3 had literally just been released and the motherboard and ram was horrendous cost (seem to remember he bought a gigabyte board and it had copper heat pipes going all over the place this wa San intel board, and he got an Nvidia geforce card but can't remember which one, this was the last time i touched a computer (in terms of building one) until January this year when built my current pc. I just stuck to cheap laptops to do word and photo processing as a hobby
