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I bought my first computer in '93. It was a *used* 486, 33Mhz and I paid $1250 for the thing. It came with the original Doom already loaded. I must've played that game for hours on end. I think I failed a few college courses thanks to Doom.

I still love it (even if the graphics are prehistoric). Looking forward to this one.

Incidentally, the following year I used the same computer to go online for the first time (after I installed a "high-speed" 14.4k modem)!

I bought my first computer in '93. It was a *used* 486, 33Mhz and I paid $1250 for the thing. It came with the original Doom already loaded. I must've played that game for hours on end. I think I failed a few college courses thanks to Doom.
I still love it (even if the graphics are prehistoric). Looking forward to this one.
Incidentally, the following year I used the same computer to go online for the first time (after I installed a "high-speed" 14.4k modem)!

You wanna talk about prehistoric, my first puter was an XT I bought for about 1200 in 1987 or so. I had a CGA simulation program that let me play some CGA games (like World Tour Golf) in monochrome. Still got it.

The first puter I coaxed online was a 386-25MHz that I boosted up to 10 meg. We won't even talk about what I paid for its replacement, one of the first of the Pentium IIs. The 233 is being refurbished for a friend (which is what happened to the 386 as well) after I used what I could to build my 733 (at about half what a new one would have cost).

-Eric

DOOM darn nearly destroyed my college career in fall '94: I'd stay up all night blasting demons, showed up for classes all bleery-eyed but but in an "adrenaline afterglow". Friends also started noticing that whenever I approached a hallway intersection I'd have to peer around the corner to make sure nothing was lurking there...