My first personal computer - an AT clone

The very first PC that I ever had (or rather, that the family had) was an IBM AT compatible, basically an AT clone. It ran on an 80286 microprocessor, had only 640kb of RAM, and did not have a harddisk. Instead, it had two 5.25-inch floppy drives.

That was in 1990. Needless to say, it wasn't that great a PC, but playing Captain Comic and Test Drive on it brought endless hours of fun. And of course, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2.

Subsequently, we upgraded it by adding in a SoundBlaster sound card, and a small harddisk, plus gave it some extra memory. Eventually, we gave it a new CPU, an 80386 microprocessor. By then, the cost of upgrades was more than enough to get a new PC.

But those were the old days, when you needed to swap floppy disks to play games if you didn't have a harddisk. When games played in 4-colour CGA, 16-colour EGA, and there were few games that came in 256-colour VGA. When sound came from the primitive PC speaker if you didn't own a sound card. When you needed to boot up your system with a DOS disk before you can do anything at all. Those were the days.