1996 – 1999
1996 I got a new desktop to use during high school
A second hand no name white box.
- 486,
- 8Mb Edo RAM
- Trident 512k VGA card
- 80Mb WD IDE drive.
- 2400 bps (and very soon after a 14.4 Kb) modem used to dial to the highschool’s only incoming line and from there to the internet on a leased 28.8 kb line
- ESS Audiodrive Soundcard.
- A very good, multisync 14” AOC monitor
1997 finally woke out of the diskpace nightmare and got a WD 1.2Gb IDE drive.
1997 LG 32x cdrom drive (very, very good drive. it could read even badly scratched disks) I used it specifically for data recovery until around 2004
1998 upgraded the motherboard to a socket 7 one with a Cyrix PR166 6×86 CPU 150Mhz and 32Mb RAM. Good all round performance due to the 75Mhz bus but awful floating point performance.
1998 The AOC broke and we used for a while an old Sony Trinitron which needed special incantation’s to sync at 800×600.
1999 It went to my brother who used this machine for a couple of years and after which worked as announces player on a small neighbouring town’s cable tv station for a while.
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