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BrandonComputer that means/meant the most to you.
In my case its an old IBM Personal Computer 350. I loved going to my grandparents home, and we would go every week-end. Once I got into computers my grandma let me use the ones she had (in the summer I'd go over every day). There was an Epson 80286 with a large floppy drive, a 386 or 486 I never used that had Win95 and a Floppy Drive, and a 486 Gateway 2000, also there was the IBM that she got at a yard sale just for me to use. The IBM was from a church or something of the sort and had been taken care of, with little yellowing. I used it every time I was there to code in QB or to just mess around. In the mean time at home I had started using an old 386 with Windows 3.1 from my basement and got a 30 pack of floppy disks. Then computers started failing with "OS Not found" my dads Gateway failed 3 to 4 times and my grandmas IBM and Gateway both fell, the 286 I messed with a couple times and it helped get me used to DOS, my grandma had got rid of the other system as it just sat around. A short time later we realized it was a Virus that was on the 386 that killed the MBR of any system that booted to a floppy infected with it. So after formating all my floppies, my grandma gave me the 3 computers she had. I could still not fix the virus at this time, so I striped the Gateway 2000 for parts. My Laptop at that time, a Compaq Armada E500 had XP but I wanted the "speed" of Win98 so I got a boot floppy out to run the cabs CD and SHIT! My laptop was toast! At that time things where crazy, I had a rare 12 year old virus and a dead $250 laptop, and my dad knew all this. Luckly after searching around computing.net I found that the fix was to use "FDISK /MBR" I tried it and there my hard drive was. I then went through my parts to get my IBM going again. I had a number of spare CD-ROM Drives so I had no idea which was right but I finally got a nice Compaq one working. My IBM taught me a lot in all of this, I learned about DOS, GUIs(I found them when looking for a Win3.1 shell), Partitioning, Hardware, and more. A few weeks ago I stole RAM from a couple systems that belong to the Boy Scouts, It was EDO ram, and in the one system its too slow for them to notice and the other one I gave useless PC100 instead, giving my IBM these final specs: IBM Personal Computer 350, Floppy, 2GB HDD, 24x? CD-ROM, 3COM Eitherlink III, a REVEAL sound card, and an ATI ISA TV Tuner(with no drivers). Does anyone know about these old tuners?		2008-07-074:03 PM
MPNQBRe:Computer that means/meant the most to you.
My first PC, an AST Advantage! 800 series. With a 166mhz Pentium, Windows 95, 28.8 modem, and 96 mb ram (AFTER an upgrade!) and an 8GB HD (upgrade) it was the meanest machine of 1996. We had it as our primary PC until late 2000, when we upgraded to a Dell Dimension and I got the old PC for my room. In late 2001, I upgraded my room PC and gave this PC to my grandmother. The 8GB HD crashed in 2003 but I replaced it with an old 2GB in 2004, that I specifically bought off eBay to fix this PC, along with a bunch of other parts that are still in a box down there. Since it was at my grandmother's, it didn't matter what size the HD was as long as it played solitaire. It remiained in use at my grandmother's until late 2006, when she got that PC i upgraded to in 2001 and I got a new Dell XPS 410. We just got rid of it in February and a part of me died when I watched the trashmen take it away.		2008-07-075:30 PM
ToddRe:Computer that means/meant the most to you.
I have tons of computers that mean the most to me. The first computer I used for programming is my Celeron. My dad got it for me in 1999 when I was in 4th grade. I used to play Pinball Madness! on my Windows 98SE Celeron and I had so much fun. I then got into Need For Speed - High Stakes which was the first 3D game I got and I got it in 5th grade. That's when I knew I wanted to get into computers. I started playing around with Windows and seeing what did what and what I could do. I used to have so much fun playing games and making apps. My Toshiba Tecra 8000 is the first laptop I bought (refurbished) and it was perfect. After about a couple weeks using it, I got a new battery for it which made it in the best condition.		2008-07-075:33 PM
MystikShadowsRe:Computer that means/meant the most to you.
The most meaningful computer was the first computer that I could call my own. A commodore pet 2032 it was mine, I worked hard to get it too (sommer lawn mowing, babysitting, whatever I could at the time (baci in the late 70s that computer cost about 899$ canadian dollars at the time. The computer I had the most fun with was a commodore 64. Back then, I did whatever I wanted with it, had awesome music features (for a 1983 machine) with it's sid chip and I had an S'MORE cartridge that added a lot of cool statements to the basic language very useful AND doubled the RAM available, I was in commodore heaven. ;). When you think of the choices you had back in the late 70s, 80s and all the way to about mid 90s. I find computers pretty boring today, a mac or an IBM windows or linux, it's getting boring and pathetic, it's high time for a whole new BREAKTHROUGH in the computing industry. :) I know, I've lived through the whole PC (Microcomputer) history, i'm a living museum. lol		2008-07-077:02 PM
BrandonRe:Computer that means/meant the most to you.
My dad had a PET and a C64 also, I still kick myself because I said I didn't want the C64!!		2008-07-077:35 PM
jasonwoodlandRe:Computer that means/meant the most to you.
My Nana has a PC which runs Win95 with a P1, it has a 486 from memory. My Dad's brothers bought it for Grand Pa to use. I rember him playing all the First Shooter games like Doom on it. It had a standard floppy drive on it and CD-ROM and that the 'TURBO' button... I remember stuffing up the screen resolution on it once and it was set like that for ages! I had an Idea of booting into safe mode and setting it to 1024x768 in that. I have another PC called 'My 486'. she was the holder of all my Go! 4.* GUIs. It Ran WFW 3.11 with mighty speed and didn't know what a CD ROM was when we first got her. All the whole set worked but my monitor burned outon a few months. it still had the use of squishing a cocroack in my caravan. We bought another screen and that went fuzzy in a few weeks. then we bought a nother one which worked forever so far. now that's using the Win98 computer in the caravan		2008-07-079:02 PM

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