My first machine was a compaq prolinea 486 with a 33 mhz intergrated cpu, (no coprocessor) 512kb video memory, 4 mb RAM, and a 90 mb hard drive. The machine had a floppy drive that worked and a cd-rom that didn't. Running dos 6.0 and Winblows for Workgroups 3.11. I remember one time accidentally deleting the file manager icon from the main window while adding games and deleting shrotcuts that didn't work. After rebooting the machine it would just come to a dos prompt. When i typed in "win" it would tell me "Bad Command or Filename". I must have tinkered with that machine for quite some time before finnaly giving in and reinstalling the os.
A few years later i managed to get a hold of a "Intel 486 DX/2 66mhz" Coprocessor, and upon trying to cram it into the "Non-ZIF" socket one of the pins bent over, which i didn't realize, and when it was powered on smoke came from the socket. Which wasn't really to awful bad since i already had a different machine with a 100mhz P1 with 16mb Ram a 500mb Hard drive, and a 2 mb Video card.
A lot has definately changed since then. Now I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with 2 250Gig SATA Hard drives and on 80 SATA, a Gig of PC3200 DDR 400, 2 DVD-+RW's and a 256 mb GeForce 5500.
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