Have you owned a personal computer more than 10 years ago and thought of what was it then compared to now. Well, if you were like me, with too much free time at hand, it will be fun to do so. So what does it mean to own a PC back in the early 90s in Singapore?

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20 Years Ago...
Personal Computer? Why would anyone want a personal computer?

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About 15 Years Ago...

1.) Harddisk was a luxury, you just work with 2 double density 5.25" disk drive.
2.) Double density diskette means 320Kilobytes of storage, or 1/10th an MP3 song nowadays.
3.) You had to format your diskette before using.
4.) 640K memory is enough for every application you can think of.
5.) You are so proud of your VGA graphics when the rest are using EGA and *Gasp* CGA ones.
6.) Printers do not use cartridges, they use ribbons.
7.) PC Speakers can produce so much music and even speak.
8.) Microsoft DOS 3.1
9.) You boot your computer with a floppy disk and have self-configured config.sys and autoexec.bat files.
10.) You keep different boot disks for different configurations (Actually to play different games).
11.) You had games that works like a console - slot into the computer and boot from it to play.
12.) You played RTK2 with 3 diskettes using only 2 disk drive. (Go figure)
13.) A 286 PC running at 8Mhz is fast.
14.) CD had a different meaning.
15.) The best pictures are ASCII pics.
16.) You keep a table of ASCII characters.
17.) Gamers: Romance of the Three Kingdoms & Prince of Persia.
18.) Programmers: GW-BASIC.

More to come in the future.

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