Did you build it yourself? What OS did you use? Did you have internet access?

Feel free to outline the component brand names and model (if you remember them) and let us know if you still have access to the computer.

This was in Jan 1997. It was running Windows 95 (Windows 98 wasn’t released yet). No internet (we got dialup later in the year; maybe in the late summer). It was built by my parent’s colleague (company system admin), I was too young to build my own PC.

*Pentium I 133 MHz *1.5 GB HDD *CD-ROM Drive *FDD *Sound Blaster 32 (remember getting Sound Blaster Live! In the next build). *32 MB RAM *S3 ViRGE 325 (4 MB RAM if I remember correctly).

I think the colleague who built it sold it off when we got a new build.

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    6 hours ago

    First one i remember building myself had a Q6600 4gb ram and a GT 730. It was mainly based on an old HP workstation that got thrown away by my dads work, and I picked up the 730 on sale. Somewhere around 2008-9 I was 7yo I think.

    Played Minecraft, BFH and BFP4F fine (thanks grandpa for teaching me to play fps games at 5yo)