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.
Around 2008-2010, I previously had an HP Compaq Presario that was no longer cutting it, so it was time to upgrade! I ended up using the case itself for quite a while, but gutted the motherboard for some Gigabyte board of the time, a Pentium 4 (1.X Ghz), a whooping 4 GB of RAM (32-bit systems woohoo), ~100Gb HDD, and an nVidia 9600GT. Give it a few years, and I’d upgraded it to a GTX 560 and i5-2500k which ended up blowing in a power surge in college dorms around 2015.
It’s been long enough that timelines are fuzzy, but the turn of specs have been wild. I was pretty shocked to learn that a lot of CPUs have turned from over-clocking to under-volting due to how generally powerful (and power consuming) they are nowadays!