- Nov 13, 2005
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So, when I was reminiscing today about my first PC. I got it on my birthday on Christmas in 1994. If I recall I think it was 233MHz with 16MB ram. Windows 95. Dial up modem. Built to order by one of those local PC guys who probably charged an arm and a leg back then. I remember installing some Police Quest anthologies on first. Hell, I probably installed a lot of Sierra Online games after that. I remember installing DOS games and staying up late night pixel hunting. Eventually, I had to get a hand me video card from a friend to run some newer stuff. Probably MDK or something. I remember getting internet in '97. Dial up porn. Oh yes, dial up porn. You had to wait for that shit back then. Sometimes, the sound of the modem dialing up haunts my dreams. PssshZzzzzPsssshBuzzzBuzzzEccccck!
Moving on. I got a guitar for my birthday in '97 and immediately go sucked into online tab stuff. I was looking up everything from the old Carcass fansite full of tabs to other places I can't remember. Listening to bands on DigitalDeath and getting sucked into the "sound" fo death metal/melodic death metal/doom etc.. "Micing" up a Crate combo with a cheap Wal-Mart mic and using Cool Edit Pro to try and record anything I could. I remember going onto the old school Roadrunner Records forum and posting how much I loved the solos on Machine Head's "The More Things Change". I honestly doubt I can remember what my login name was back then. ICQ, IRC, all that shit. I had the honies in different states lovin' my screen name. Though, I can't remember that either. I believe I did another upgrade to RAM at some point. An intense 32MB. Oh, and a larger harddrive.
The computer came with me to college which had HIGH SPEED INTERNET!. Which just means Faster Porn! Skipping class to eat Chic Fil-A breakfast, watching FBI Files and Family Feud. Going to the old Meshuggah website and wishing I had a seven string. Finding various bands I liked and emailing their band members, asking gear questions. I vaguely remember getting a hold of somebody in Brutal Truth and them saying something about a Marshall and a Metalzone? Eh, it was yeeeeaaars ago. Installing X-Com: Apocalypse and skipping more class. Took some time off from class yet stayed in the same city and the computer still stayed. So much porn/music/random shit accumulated on it, I don't know how it lasted so long. I believe I was probably up to Windows 98 at some point. I believe the point came in which I had to do a total overhaul and I couldn't really keep adding more shit. Plus, I wanted to play Max Payne 2. So, she had to go. Actually, I think the hard drive died on me....and I wanted to play Max Payne 2. It was a sad time. We had shared so many memories. I grew so much with her/he/she/it/the machine. Never got a virus, or a crash, or a blue screen or anything. Just a "beep" when turned on and whatever band background I had at that time. I wanted to dremel on the side of the case, "RIP: 1994-2003". But, I couldn't bring myself to do it...plus I didn't have a dremel. It probably ended up as spare parts for friends somewhere. So now I'm on the computer I got as a hand me down from a fellow computer nerd in 2004. Oh how the time flies.
So, I guess if anybody has other "first PC" stories that would be cool. Notice I said, "PC" as in Personal Computer which can mean operating systems under Apple, Windows or Linux or whatever else is out there. If funny to think how much time is spent on said machines and all that jazz.
Moving on. I got a guitar for my birthday in '97 and immediately go sucked into online tab stuff. I was looking up everything from the old Carcass fansite full of tabs to other places I can't remember. Listening to bands on DigitalDeath and getting sucked into the "sound" fo death metal/melodic death metal/doom etc.. "Micing" up a Crate combo with a cheap Wal-Mart mic and using Cool Edit Pro to try and record anything I could. I remember going onto the old school Roadrunner Records forum and posting how much I loved the solos on Machine Head's "The More Things Change". I honestly doubt I can remember what my login name was back then. ICQ, IRC, all that shit. I had the honies in different states lovin' my screen name. Though, I can't remember that either. I believe I did another upgrade to RAM at some point. An intense 32MB. Oh, and a larger harddrive.
The computer came with me to college which had HIGH SPEED INTERNET!. Which just means Faster Porn! Skipping class to eat Chic Fil-A breakfast, watching FBI Files and Family Feud. Going to the old Meshuggah website and wishing I had a seven string. Finding various bands I liked and emailing their band members, asking gear questions. I vaguely remember getting a hold of somebody in Brutal Truth and them saying something about a Marshall and a Metalzone? Eh, it was yeeeeaaars ago. Installing X-Com: Apocalypse and skipping more class. Took some time off from class yet stayed in the same city and the computer still stayed. So much porn/music/random shit accumulated on it, I don't know how it lasted so long. I believe I was probably up to Windows 98 at some point. I believe the point came in which I had to do a total overhaul and I couldn't really keep adding more shit. Plus, I wanted to play Max Payne 2. So, she had to go. Actually, I think the hard drive died on me....and I wanted to play Max Payne 2. It was a sad time. We had shared so many memories. I grew so much with her/he/she/it/the machine. Never got a virus, or a crash, or a blue screen or anything. Just a "beep" when turned on and whatever band background I had at that time. I wanted to dremel on the side of the case, "RIP: 1994-2003". But, I couldn't bring myself to do it...plus I didn't have a dremel. It probably ended up as spare parts for friends somewhere. So now I'm on the computer I got as a hand me down from a fellow computer nerd in 2004. Oh how the time flies.
So, I guess if anybody has other "first PC" stories that would be cool. Notice I said, "PC" as in Personal Computer which can mean operating systems under Apple, Windows or Linux or whatever else is out there. If funny to think how much time is spent on said machines and all that jazz.
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), of course the requisite dial-up modem, and a 2 GB hard drive. That thing held us for awhile, until in '99 we got a Gateway with a PIII 500 Mhz and 128 MB of RAM, which I suppose marks my entry into modern computing 
