This was our very first computer. Our father got it for us because he wanted us to learn how to use them from a young age. I’m not sure what year it was exactly but definitely late 90s… at the time my brother and I were about 10 years old. I accidentally deleted Microsoft Paint shortcut because I did not know what delete meant and felt terrible for it.
#TBT
Everyone has these desks in the 90s 🥹
Facts
Indeed!
Interestingly this desk was previously for my dad’s HAM radio equipment. He would have conversations with people from all over the world with it, freely and openly, before the Internet was a thing for most people in our country. He kept logs so he wouldn’t forget facts he learned about amateur radio operators. He traveled and met some of them!
286 or 386?
No idea, honestly. I wouldn’t have know what that meant back then.
Timeline suggests a 486 or even Pentium class, especially if home built from ordered parts or anything custom not made by IBM, Compaq, Gateway, Dell, etc.
Though the pizza box style form factor does make me think 386 as there was a crazy shift towards towers
LOL, my neck hurts just looking at this picture and how high up the monitor is from the chair.
Hahah possibly. But we were only allowed like 1 hour a day anyways and at that age the poor ergonomics wouldn’t have been too bad.
Love this.
Awesome pic 🔥
Same but early 90s for me.
30 something years
Damn
Wow good on your Dad for hooking you up at a young age. My techy friends all got Commore 64’s in the early 80’s. I was 20 years old and found a 386 pc with a DOS manual in my inlaws’ basement in about 1992 that finally got me hands-on. I managed to get the 14.4 baud modem working and was soon on some local BBS sites. And downloading cracked games and software. It’s wild that our generation has seen the entire history of personal computing in our lifetimes. And to think that Man stumbled around in the dark with not so much as an electric light for thousands of years.
