My first computer I could swear I’ve written about this before, but I can’t find it, so it must’ve never escaped Twitter

My first actual computer

• We got it in the mid-90s — a 486 DX running MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. It screamed along at 25 MHz 33 MHz, and if that wasn’t enough for you, it had a turbo button that would boost it all the way to 100 MHz! I had to turn turbo off when I won at sol.exe, or else the card waterfall animation would play nearly instantly, but otherwise turning turbo off resulted in a hard lock and a loud angry endless beep. Thanks to an upgrade, it also had 40MB of RAM. Nice.
• It came with a huge CRT monitor with an incredible high-def resolution of 1280x1024. (The full-size photo of the PreComputer above is 1024×801.) It had a keyboard lock, too, which I eventually learned how to pick using a paperclip. For reasons.