I remember my school getting our first PCs in the library around the time the Columbia went up the first time. We thought the future was then. Little did we know...
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I don't know what my family's first computer was called, but I remember it ran DOS, and I remember the Lemmings demo having a really, really hard third level.
Memes like this sometimes gauge how poor a person was growing up instead of their age
Our family's first computer was an Acer Anyware, 386 with a greyscale display. We had a serial trackball for it.
Ahhh, the good ol' days playing Wumpus - "I smell a Wumpus!" - or "Adventure" - "It is dark. You may be eaten by a grue." Went through rolls of paper in the old teletype.