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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:01

Going through old photos to share with my parents and discovered this classic photo of my first PC in about 1991/1992

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:04

It was a 386 33MHz with a Turbo button to downclock the CPU to 15Mhz so games designed for lesser machines didn’t run unplayably fast 😂

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:12

On the other side of the room was this beauty; a PAL SNES connected to a CRT TV over SCART with a JP/US converter riser so it could be played at 60Hz (essential for SF2 and others). Hot shit at the time and grey import carts were eye wateringly expensive, but I was working by this time so that’s where the cash went (and on the PC obvs - Roland sounds cards especially)

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:15

Sadly like most people who moved house a lot and didn’t have a lot of money I never kept any of this stuff, it got sold to fund the next thing or simply get it out of the way 🫤

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 18:24

And this CPU didn’t have a fan, it didn’t even have a heatsink of any kind. Just a flat top open to the air, that was enough back then.

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Written by Ric on 2025-01-19 at 23:20

@sinbad Windows 3.1 on a 386 was my first taste of a graphical O/S, and potentially what I had QB on too. Can't remember now if I learned on that or on something before it... I remember we had something DOS only and monochrome before the 386, and that thing seeming like a beast in comparison, but I'm not sure what we did on the earlier thing. 🤔

Never knew what the Turbo button was meant to do though. Only today learning it was a down step and not a go faster thing! 😐

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 23:54

@dev_ric I’d used GEM on ST and AmigaOS before this, and also whatever the Archimedes ran at school. I didn’t use Windows at all really until 3.11 at work and then Win95 at home

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Written by Ric on 2025-01-19 at 23:12

@sinbad you weren't taking any chances with that dust cover! 😯

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Written by The Seven Voyages Of Steve on 2025-01-19 at 23:51

@dev_ric it was from an Amiga :)

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