June monthly poll

[ImnoGuru]

The first windows product I ever used, I bought and still have the disks Windows 3.11.
Back then, I thought the hard drive was huge, it had a capacity of 780 meg and I'd never fill it.

Now people wouldn't blink at a drive of 1 or 2 terabytes.

[Bones92]

Windows 3.11 for Workgroups all the way! (And i'm only 16; My first computer was DOS 6.2 when I was 7 years old - best machine I've ever had.)

[truth18]

never owned one before until just recently  but spent time in the labs at school

[What Next]

Bought a Gateway first. With windows 95. Then upgraded to 98. Five years later and not knowing how to get help, a lot of surfing gone by and the computer being pretty much locked up, Gateway said they were not going to support my computer any longer.
I bought a dell. Now 4 years later and very careful surfing  the dell is pretty much locked up. Frustrated, to say the least, I found Computer Hope yesterday. I have a forum going and high hopes of this turning out to be a successfull, knowledge gathering experience. And maybe acquiring a new group of helpful friends.

[BC_Programmer]

Bought a Gateway first. With windows 95. Then upgraded to 98. Five years later and not knowing how to get help, a lot of surfing gone by and the computer being pretty much locked up, Gateway said they were not going to support my computer any longer.
I bought a dell. Now 4 years later and very careful surfing  the dell is pretty much locked up. Frustrated, to say the least, I found Computer Hope yesterday. I have a forum going and high hopes of this turning out to be a successfull, knowledge gathering experience. And maybe acquiring a new group of helpful friends.

Quite a history! Welcome aboard!

[computeruler]

Ya we should be able to get your computer fixed

[soybean]

Windows 3.1.  One feature I recall that I liked was the File Manager.

The computer was a Packard Bell Force 2010, with an Intel 486 processor.  Later, ran Win 95 on it.

[quaxo]

Windows 3.1 on a 386 33Mhz with 4MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive. I was the envy of my friends. The only one who could play Doom smoothly. 

[Aegis]

Windows 3.1 on a 386 33Mhz with 4MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive

That rocked, back in the day!   

[quaxo]

Oh, it was bad a## when I upgraded to 8MB RAM and a 1x CD drive! Awesome! 

[squall_01]

phhhh 486    Also its not much but dos with a little bit of a gui.  I got a copy or will get it soon, then a matter of putting it on the machine it was intended for.

[Aegis]

1x CD drive

I'm not sure if I still have one of those.  I wonder if a modern system would detect it.  The kind I have is where you put the disk in a "holder" which looks almost like a jewel case, and then load the "holder" into the CD-ROM.   

[squall_01]

its probably an 8x, I have one probably simualur too it.

[quaxo]

I'm not sure if I still have one of those.  I wonder if a modern system would detect it.  The kind I have is where you put the disk in a "holder" which looks almost like a jewel case, and then load the "holder" into the CD-ROM.   

Mine actually looked just like most drives do now, with a mechanical sliding tray, but used an ISA card instead of connecting to an IDE cable.

It came with some Windows 'look-alike' GUI, forgot what it was called.

[BC_Programmer]

I still have, my proprietary MITSUMI drive. The whole assembly slides out and the lid opens upwards to pop the disc in.