PCs

In the year 1997,

Well into my second year in college education I was the only person in my class that is using a typewriter for my assignments and reports. The machine that goes "Ding!" when typing is nearing the edge of the A4 paper. There’s no undo, no copy and paste, what you type is what you’re going get.. I needed a PC for my college projects and assignments. Finally took up the courage and ask my parents to buy me a PC. Through a mutual friend of the family, my parents brought my first PC. I didn’t know that a PC cost so much those days, I felt so terribly ripped off as I look back at the money that my parents spend on the PC. Pentium MMX 233, 32RAM, 2 GIG HD. Plus the remaining peripherals, it cost over RM 5,000!!!. This was my first encounter with the IT world, each phone call to ask the vendor come over to fix whatever I might or might not have done to PC that causes it crashed and become unusable, it’s RM80 per visit!!!. After a while I suspected they didn’t do a good job in repairing my PC. I decided to learn up myself how to reformat PC, install Windows Operating System and do up all the necessary settings without engaging the vendor’s services. It was after that I finally got a PC to do what I do want to do with a peace of mind. Then C drive was named “Angela” for a good number of years for its angelic nature minus the usual crashed and “DISK BOOT NOT FOUND” disclaimer.

The year was 2001.

I purchase my first PC on my own with the salary that I have saved up for a while now. Intel Pentium III 1Ghz with the mere 256RAM and 30Gig Hardisk with 32MB Ge-Force Graphics Card with a 17” NEC monitor. All in all, it cost less than RM 3,000. This PC was brought thru a colleague of mine then. He was the IT support for the company. I approached him and ask of his assistance in purchasing a PC for me. He asks of my budget and recommended specs based on the budget. He later brought all the individual parts required and got me involved in assembling the PC together. I must say, I indeed learn a lot from him in the hardware stuffs. There’s still so many things I can’t grasp when it comes to these IT stuffs. Few more years down the road I have periodically upgrade my PC, with a CD-Writer, more Hardisk Space, more memory and other small upgrades. “Angela” was still around then, I manage to “hooked” these 2 up and have my own network in my small little room with a crossed cable. “Angela” was given away couple of years later.

As of yesterday 9th December 2006

This PC will will longer be in my possession. I will be passing this computer down to my friend for his office usage to do application testing and other development work for his company. After more than 5 years of using this wonderful PC, countless late nights doing projects and good works has been done on it, I’m a bit sad to be departing from this good PC that has been of good service to me. I hope that this PC will continue to serve the next owner as good as it has served me.

“Angela II”
Intel Pentium III Ghz
40Gig & 80 Gig Maxtor HD
Gigabyte Motherboard System 100Mhz
768 SD PC133 RAM
Nividia Graphics Card with 64RAM
LG DVD ROM
LiteOn 8X DVD Writer
Sony Floppy Drive

Other Equipments that will be left behind
17" Philips Flat Screen Monitor
Dell Speaker 2.1 with sub woofer
IDE 80G Maxtor Hardisk
USB Genius Keyboard
USB A4Tech wireless Mouse
Epson Stylus C67 Printer
Canon Scanner FB1210U

Now currently on the 10th December 2006

I am typing this all on a new computer.
With the current specifications below.

Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz
System Bus 1066 Mhz
L2 Cache Memory 2 MB
Intel DP965LT Desktop Board
ATI Asus Extreme AX550 256MB DDR
1MB DDR2 RAM
SATA 160G Maxtor Hardisk
LG 18X Super Multi DVD Rewriter

Equipments that’s been incorporated
17" Philips Flat Screen Monitor
Dell Speaker 2.1 with sub woofer
IDE 80G Maxtor Hardisk
USB Genius Keyboard
USB A4Tech wireless Mouse
Epson Stylus C67 Printer
Canon Scanner FB1210U

Plus latest additional to the family
iPod Nano 1 Gig – Black Color.
Hahahahaha..
Christmas came early this year for me.
The new CPU costs RM 2100.