Quote Originally Posted by woohoo View Post
...it came with an 80-column Star NX-something dot-matrix printer (24-pins FTW!).
In the mid-90's, Lolo also owned a Star NX (10?) printer on his IBM-compatible at home! Its buttons were oh-so-cool back in the day. It printed so loudly that I wasn't allowed to print anything during siesta hours. Oh well, I was just about 5-years old back then, and everything that I printed were just for kicks. Lolo manually refilled the ribbon on the Star NX with Epson refills. Guess what, that printer's still alive! It just needs a refill, a parallel cable, and virtually non-existent drivers...hehehe.

It looked kinda like this:



I can't forget how I played with its buttons (when it was off hehehe).

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Our first PC never had a decent monitor when we got it. It had an almost-dead Mitac 14-inch monitor. Its display was so dark that I had to turn all the lights around the PC off whenever I had to use it. When we turned over our beloved 386DX to my lolo, he bought a 110v IBM color monitor immediately. It looked exactly like this:



It was a 13-incher, and displayed a maximum resolution of 640x480. It was the first decent monitor that the 386DX PC was attached to.

Eventually, the PC got infected by viri, but there was always the trusty McAfee on a 3-inch floppy to fix everything. At some time, the infection was so bad that my uncle had to reformat the PC. Like some of you guys remember, it was a stack of floppies that was required to install Windows 3.1.