![]() Purchased in January 1999 (sadly deceased today). The video card was also upgraded, to an S3 VIRGE 375 4MB video card, and a new monitor was I got a 13GB hard disk for this machine, and some time later, when the HD seemingly died (it sort of works today, but I also upgraded to Windows 98, and laterĩ8 SE. I upgraded the RAM to 64MB SDRAM a while later, which resulted in a huge speed boost. Playing the Age of Empires demo was fun, as it didn't run in anything lower! Still using the Dell monitor, which didn't like resolutions of 800圆00 An Avance Logic video card of some description.ThisĬomputer evolved in mid-1998 to the following: Cyrix PR200 1998 - 2001 Microsoft Windows 3.1 (I still have the original floppies for this)Īt Christmas 1997, I bought an ESS AudioDrive 1688 sound card for it (later moved to the P75), and a 24x CD-ROM drive.A 10Mbit/sec SMC EtherCard ISA network card (which I later put in my Compaq P75 - I never actually used it or got it to work in the 386).640x480 (16 colours) VGA-capable video adapter (could also do low-res SVGA resolutions).I've still got what is technically the result of all that upgrading now (although I doubt there's a single originalĬomponent in it any more - Trigger's broom, anyone? )). The next computer in the Rudge household was a Dell 316SX, which ran Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6.2. Dell 316SX (which evolved into 'my main system') 1997 - 1998 This computer sadly reached the end of its life in 1998. Plus, an Epson JX-80-compatible Fujitsu printer of some description.2 5.25" double-sided double-density (360KB) floppy drives. ![]() This was my first computer, which my Dad bought me in 1994, and on it, I learned the ins-and-outs of Dell 316SX (which becomes "my main system")Īh, my old AMSTRAD 1640. ![]() So it seems only fitting to tell you a bit about those I've owned. Computers have been a fairly major part of my life. ![]()
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