What kind of home computer did you and your family use? How powerful was it? What kind of programs did you run?
My family's first computer was an Amiga 500. I used to play Capone and F/A-18 Interceptor on it. My parents never used it for work.
It had a 7MHz CPU, 512kb of RAM, and no hard disk. Every program had to be loaded from a floppy disk.
It ran on a proprietary operating system called AmigaOS, also loaded from a floppy disk each time.
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First one I'm a bit vague on. It was a Packard Bell 386 running Windows 3.1. Think it was 2nd hand from where my mum worked.
100MB HDD, 4MB ram, big floppy and little floppy drive, but no cd drive and no sound card.
The best thing we had on it was the Johnny Castaway screensaver:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Castaway
After that we eventually bought a 350mhz Pentium II with 64MB ram and an 8MB Intel AGP (lol) graphics card. It was amazing and it came bundled with a bunch of games like G-Police, Tonic Trouble, Jazz Jackrabbit 2.
Did most of my formative gaming on that including hours in Rollercoaster Tycoon and Age of Empires.
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