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We got a job in '94 to do an animation for a pet food company, I built an AMD 486/66 tower for that job. Cutting edge at the time. Corel, Paintshop Pro & Pagemaker (all for Win 3.11) came on about eleven floppy discs. A small fortune for all that back then. And in "Computer Shopper" L. Ellison was predicting the "cloud" and SAAS. Wild stuff!
 
My first computer was a Leading Edge - one of the first IBM clones. I think 20 meg. I think it was Bill Gates ? who said he thought there would never be a use for anything over 30 meg. Where are we now? gazillions - terabytes? Giganticabytes?
 
pdplot said:
My first computer was a Leading Edge - one of the first IBM clones. I think 20 meg. I think it was Bill Gates ? who said he thought there would never be a use for anything over 30 meg. Where are we now? gazillions - terabytes? Giganticabytes?
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My first "computer" was the TI-99/4A - it was really a toy for which Bill Cosby used to do commercials, but I learned to program in basic on it. My first "real" computer was a 10MHz XT (I think 286 and I think made by the now defunct Quantex). It had a 5.1/4 floppy and a whopping (10MB full height hard drive that I added myself after the fact). I don't remember how much RAM it had, but it wasn't much. I remember my first "big" upgrade was when I replaced the 10MB drive with a half-height 65MB drive - didn't think I would ever need more disk space LOL!
 
I went halves with my Dad on a 48K Sinclair Spectrum in the early 80s, three weeks before they dropped the price from £175 to £125! I still have it in the loft. Often wondered what I could use it for other than a door stop!
 
I currently have two computers, both Dell. A laptop (works fine) and a desktop (a royal PITA). The desktop is slow, locks up on the Internet "Google Chrome is not responding" and is very frustrating. Any ideas? (Besides junking a one year old Dell).
 
Need more info on that desktop. What model? How many years old? What operating system?
 
Bought it December 2015 from PC Warehouse.It's a Dell Inspiron, F750BPM;Intel(R) core(TM)i3-4170 cpu@ 3.70 Ghz. 8.00 RAM, x64 processor. If you can make any sense out of all of that. Means nothing to me.
 
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