I've been reading AT forums for a while now because I want to know every fuzzing detail there is to know about Intel's upcoming archecture codenamed "Haswell". In one of the threads, there was something about a show called Computer Chronicles and as I'm easily amused by watching fast screens, I watched the episode where they were comparing Intel's Pentium CPU to that of a 486. I had a good amount of laughs as they're talking about motherboards with 256K of cache and having to use a heatsink because they run so much hotter. It got me thinking about my first computer. The first computer I owned wasn't technically mine at first but I was pretty much the only one using it. It was by far the most unbalanced pile of rubbish made from parts that I'm assuming were found in a bin somewhere. It had an Intel Pentium MMX at a blistering 233 MHz with 24 Megs of SDRAM, a Cirrus Logic video card with some presumably very small amount of VRAM and an unbranded ISA sound card all piled on a miserable Baby AT motherboard I've long since lost and I'm pretty sure it had a SiS chipset as well. It also sported a 10 gigabyte hard drive and another 15 gig drive I didn't find out about til about a year after I got a socket 478 rig. Ran Windows 98 like a champ that just had diarreah. But it played games within reason. I could play Doom very well, along with Starcraft, Tiberian Sun, Unreal, Duke Nukem 3D, some crappy NASCAR game, Sonic CD along with a Sega Collection for PC and Red Alert 2. Out of all of those, Red Alert 2 was the worst. 1 in-game second counted as 2 real time seconds. On a 2 player map. At 640x480. Still fun though. Couldn't get the sound to work in Unreal or Duke Nukem either, but I'm tellin' you young whippersnappers that those were the days. I remember trying to get the sound to work for quite some time. It wasn't muted or anything, but after messing with the bios, I gave up. Fun times they were.