It was a Packard Bell Legend 822CDTW Multimedia Minitower Computer. That evening, my dad returned home from Best Buy with tons of heavy boxes with the Packard Bell logo plastered all over them. But I was bedridden with a stomach bug and was stuck in bed watching reruns of The Flintstones on Cartoon Network. I had just turned 6 and I desperately wanted to go with my dad to pick the computer up. I remember that rainy Wednesday he bought it. It was a little pricey, nearly $3,000, but he really liked this one.
In early December 1995, my dad finally found the perfect computer. I remember him doing a lot of research on computers, since he had never owned one before. In the fall of 1995, shortly after I started kindergarten, my dad decided it was time we needed our own computer. Look at those graphics! World of Warcraft, eat your heart out. My aunt and I played various computer games such as Sierra's Mixed Up Mother Goose, Freddi Fish, and a Microsoft game known as "SkiFree" where a monster would randomly eat you as you ski down a mountain. That screenshot, by the way, was taken on my copy of the "DOSBox" emulator, a multi-platform DOS emulator I have on my Windows 7 computer. I couldn't get over how you could just press a button on something called a "mouse", and the computer reacted to the click. Boy, was I obviously wrong.Īt age 5, I was just shocked at how amazing this computer thing was. Was it a machine that would eat me alive? (I seriously did think that). I had heard the term before, but never knew what it was. There was something extremely moving about this thing called a "computer". It all started sometime around the summer of 1995 when my aunt introduced me to her Gateway 2000 running MS-DOS 6.22 & Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
Well, I guess my silence is over, haha.Īlso, this will hopefully be the first of an article series known as "Retroputing", where we will take a look at vintage computing.Įver since I was 5 years old, I have always loved computers. Gosh, I'll bet it's been a year or more since I last did a Retro Junk article.
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