Did you build it yourself? What OS did you use? Did you have internet access?
Feel free to outline the component brand names and model (if you remember them) and let us know if you still have access to the computer.
This was in Jan 1997. It was running Windows 95 (Windows 98 wasn’t released yet). No internet (we got dialup later in the year; maybe in the late summer). It was built by my parent’s colleague (company system admin), I was too young to build my own PC.
*Pentium I 133 MHz *1.5 GB HDD *CD-ROM Drive *FDD *Sound Blaster 32 (remember getting Sound Blaster Live! In the next build). *32 MB RAM *S3 ViRGE 325 (4 MB RAM if I remember correctly).
I think the colleague who built it sold it off when we got a new build.
Acer Aspire 5532. It had a single core Athlon 1.6ghz processor, 3gb of ram, 160gb of storage, and it ran windows 7. It was cheap and it was SLOW! To be honest, I do attribute it with expanding my knowledge of computers, as I almost immediately started researching how to make it acceptably fast, which led me into engineering.
I don’t work in a technical field (but I do interact with technical fields), I am glad I went through the (late) 90s and 2000s, it has helped created a modicum of independence when dealing with tech solutions.