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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Leading Edge WinTower 486.
486SX at 33MHz, probably 8MB RAM, Vesa-bus video card, 260mb hdd, and a 14" monitor running Windows 3.1. 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives, Colorado tape backup.
It was later upgraded to Windows 95 with a 1.2GB hdd and an Evergreen Technologies OverDrive processor upgrade at 133MHz.
Second PC was an HP Pavilion 8580C purchased from Circuit City in 1999.
Pentium III 500MHz, 128MB, 20GB, and an Nvidia Riva TNT2. Had both a CD burner and DVD-ROM.
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