I was struck by this weeks Blog Challenge from Lorelle on WordPress. The assignment was to describe my computer setup then and now. I thought cool a bit of time to reminiscence about the good old days. Well that isn’t quite how it worked out.My first computer was a Trash 80, followed by a Mac Classic then I was back to PC with out even thinking twice.
That was a 386, followed quickly by a 486 then a Pentium 100. By this time I had moved up to a whole meg of ram on my video card and replaced the original sound blaster I bought with a new sound blaster 16 I believe and some really expensive yet crappy sounding speakers. I liked to tell myself this was because the music itself had crappy compression. Not to mention if I wanted to listen to music, I had a good stereo with huge kick ass floor speakers. (more…)
