I'll jump in here too. First was a Gateway, Pentium II 400Mhz, slot 1. I tried to save a bit of cash by downgrading the memory from 128MB to 96MB, which I regre

I'll jump in here too. First was a Gateway, Pentium II 400Mhz, slot 1. I tried to save a bit of cash by downgrading the memory from 128MB to 96MB, which I regretted in retrospect. But I took the option to add both a 16MB STB RivaTNT (2D and OpenGL) and a 8MB 3Dfx Voodoo2. Now I could do both OpenGL and Glide! w00t! And what was whacky at the time, an LS-120 drive, which read both 3.5in floppies and a 3.5in 120MB disk. For my friend and I who both had one, it was a great way to share files. (Our cable modems an the first CD-Rs would pretty much make this obsolete a year later though.) Sound was via a SoundBlaster "Live!". Gosh, I was thrilled. I'd saved a long while for it, and boy it delivered. I really got my IT career started while learning on that box. I was amazed at how long that PC lasted. It used the Intel 440BX chipset, which meant I could later upgrade that 400MHz PII to a 800MHz PIII Coppermine. Videocard was upgrade to a Voodoo5. The card just barely fit. =P I later filled it with some more hard drives and a DVD reader. I get strangely teary-eyed when I think back to those days of Win98 and Descent, connecting to the internet and really getting to know how the insides worked. We've much better devices now, but I wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for that Gateway PC. Thanks Mr. Hammond. Godspeed. =)