Write about your first computer.
It was a 386, can’t remember any other spec other than running early windows. Must have had 16 or 32MB ram, and I used DOS a lot.
The main painful memory was trying to play doom and having to go smallest screen size and resolution. Playable, barely, and cheat codes were required. I’ll never forget IDDQD (if you know you know, otherwise look it up).
Pretty sure the game was acquired by calling a number on the modem, an early iteration of file sharing. Took forever to download and likely interrupted a few times by another family member picking up the phone and cutting the connection; at least they got the modem yelling at them in return. Then installing via multiple floppy disks which would also fail regularly.
Not to mention I only got to do this on weekends as my dad had a computer; I didn’t have one with mum during the week.
It must have played Wolfenstein better but I can’t remember playing it as much. By this time Doom was just too far a jump ahead and so much better.
Eventually I would get a 486 and enter warp speed, and I think I inherited the 386 but by that time the Playstation and Nintendo 64 were around so it was less useful.
Special shout out to Nintendo for porting Doom to the SNES with about the same level of playability as my 386.
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