My first Windows-based PC, which I could really call my own, was a hand-me-down desktop computer owned by my tech-savvy brother-in-law. He had just upgraded to a newer computer setup, so my sister, who was living in California, sent me the junk one through the ever-reliable balikbayan box.
It was one of those big, bulky white boxes, built like a tank. It was powered by a 25Mhz 16-bit Intel 386 CPU with 2mb of RAM, two hard disks drive ñ one 40mb and the other 80mb ñ and ran on Microsoft Windows 3.1. The ìwhite monsterî was also accompanied by two more space-hugging equipment: a large 14-inch CRT monitor that could only produce up to 256 colors (already ìhigh-resî at that time) and an HP deskjet printer, which could only print in black. It was 1994Ö and yeah, those were the days.