Hi from 1996: personal computer for 5 million rubles
Hi, Habr.
Accidentally sorting out all the junk, I found the bill and the expenditure invoice for my first personal computer. Not the ZX Spectrum, but the PC.
The piece of iron for 1996 was good: a 486-DX2-66 processor, 4 Mb SIMM memory, 544 Mb disk, 512 Kb video memory. The motherboard had onboard besides ISA slots also PCI and it was just a breakthrough, and together with the use of the Turbo button on the case it was just a spaceship. A 14 "monitor with a resolution of 1024x768 (it seems the same for the iPad 2), a floppy and a Epson LQ-100 creaking printer were purchased in the kit.
Total cost: 5,314,800 rubles.
')
On the hard drive, in addition to Windows 95 and DOS, many toys were comfortably fit, which at the time was extremely difficult to get: Heroes of Might and Magic (yes, the first part), Mortal Kombat (also the first part), Doom and the game loved by many Goblins About all sorts of Prince of Persia, Arkanoid and Tetris, Field of Miracles I keep silent because This is already quite a classic of the genre, they freely roamed friends.
Memories about the purchase of games: the end of 1996, Kay on Marat (in Mayakovskaya metro station) - in it I acquired my first computer games - Doom 2, Mortal Kombat. The games were recorded on 3.5 floppy disks, packed using the arj archiver and split into two or more volumes. Without appropriate literature, understanding what to do with it was very difficult. Especially considering that the English language was at the level of a baby, and there was no knowledge about launching programs other than “press Enter on the .exe file”. And what is most unpleasant is that there was nobody to ask. In general, the "spear" method, raping the brains and the English-Russian dictionary, I did it all.
What was the first PC (or Mac) you had,%% username? What functions he successfully performed, and with what he could not cope?
Accidentally sorting out all the junk, I found the bill and the expenditure invoice for my first personal computer. Not the ZX Spectrum, but the PC.
The piece of iron for 1996 was good: a 486-DX2-66 processor, 4 Mb SIMM memory, 544 Mb disk, 512 Kb video memory. The motherboard had onboard besides ISA slots also PCI and it was just a breakthrough, and together with the use of the Turbo button on the case it was just a spaceship. A 14 "monitor with a resolution of 1024x768 (it seems the same for the iPad 2), a floppy and a Epson LQ-100 creaking printer were purchased in the kit.
Total cost: 5,314,800 rubles.
')
On the hard drive, in addition to Windows 95 and DOS, many toys were comfortably fit, which at the time was extremely difficult to get: Heroes of Might and Magic (yes, the first part), Mortal Kombat (also the first part), Doom and the game loved by many Goblins About all sorts of Prince of Persia, Arkanoid and Tetris, Field of Miracles I keep silent because This is already quite a classic of the genre, they freely roamed friends.
Memories about the purchase of games: the end of 1996, Kay on Marat (in Mayakovskaya metro station) - in it I acquired my first computer games - Doom 2, Mortal Kombat. The games were recorded on 3.5 floppy disks, packed using the arj archiver and split into two or more volumes. Without appropriate literature, understanding what to do with it was very difficult. Especially considering that the English language was at the level of a baby, and there was no knowledge about launching programs other than “press Enter on the .exe file”. And what is most unpleasant is that there was nobody to ask. In general, the "spear" method, raping the brains and the English-Russian dictionary, I did it all.
What was the first PC (or Mac) you had,%% username? What functions he successfully performed, and with what he could not cope?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/147231/
All Articles