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.
My first computer was a Dell 486DX @ 66mHz with 8MB RAM, a 514MB hard drive. It ran Windows 3.1 initially, and I think we upgraded to 95 eventually. Many a day playing DOS games, especially those 1000 in 1 discs with tons of shareware.
I remember those 1,000 in 1 discs, they were somewhat common in the mid 90s when CD-ROMs started taking off.
They’d be plastered all over tech stores end caps and cashier lanes, and sometimes places you’d never expect. But boy did they open my eyes to PC gaming.