| I've put my first
steps in computing by the age of 7, on a Commodore VIC-20 Home Computer (my fathers
computer), that machine had 5 KB RAM on-board :) It was great to play
"ping-pong" or "Hangman" on the TV. Later, by the age of 11, I was the owner of an original IBM PC with ugly
green monochrome MGA screen. About a month, I changed it for an IBM PC Clone 8088 XT
Computer with an Hercules/CGA (Dual Screen) Monochrome monitor and no Harddisk. |
My Current Protaq PC.
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But after 2 years of messing with floppy
disks, I finally got my 32 MB Harddisk, a Kalok. In December 1991, my father bought me a
80386SX-16 machine with the Harddisk space of 85 MB. That was great! But not enough. My
father bought me an extra 340 MB Western Digital Harddisk, that's was a fast harddisk... A
bit to fast, since it crashed after one month of use :( But, no problem, I've immediately
got another WD, thanks to the people at late InfoBrix, Brussels. In September 1994, a
friend of my father gave me and old AST 386SX-16 machine with 4 MB of RAM, I could finally
(try to) run OS/2 ;-) The start-up speed was 5 minutes, but I could multi-task, and that
was the best!
In February 1995 when I bought myself a Pentium, and sold
my 2 old 386 PC's... So now I'm working with an P5. It's a ProTAQ Computer System powered
by a genuine Intel Pentium 90 MHz with 32 MB of RAM and 1,3 GB harddisk storage, a twin
diskdrive, a 2 MB VRAM S3 Vision964 videocard, an ADI 4V 15" color VGA screen and a
Cherry keyboard. A Logicode 14k4 bps faxmodem, a PlusTek OpticPro 4800P Full Color
scanner, a SoundBlaster AWE32 music card and ATAPI Six-speed CD-ROM player. All running
under Microsoft Windows 95, without crashing!
In the spring of 1997, I bought myself a new notebook.
It's a Toshiba 200CDS. An Intel Pentium 100 MHz with build-in 6X CD player.
Recently, I updated my computer system with an Intel
Pentium 150 MHz MMX Overdrive processor, and exchanged the mainboard by an Intel
Advanced/ZP mainboard. The most recent addons are a larger Harddisk (6.4 GB), a 3D addon
card (3Dfx Voodoo Graphics) and a new 2D videocard (S3 Virge/DX), since my old WinFast
card went crazy! :)
And, since my modem is updated, I can now download files
at more than 5 KB/sec using the US Robotics X2 protocol. As soon as my ISP support it,
I'll upgrade the modem to V.90! |
