Beige box memories, what was your first ever family computer

[Lucy05]

The tower that took up half the desk, the CRT monitor that weighed more than the actual computer, the dial-up modem humming away in the corner. Describe the setup and roughly what year it was running.

[Rashford49]

Ours had a tower so heavy that moving it required two people and a genuine strategy session beforehand

[Seb51]

The CRT monitor took up so much desk space there was a permanent unspoken rule about not putting drinks anywhere near it

[RicFlair_What?]

Our first family computer came with a manual thicker than most textbooks I owned at school and nobody in the house ever actually read past chapter two

[DQ Eric]

Remember the specific whir of the fan starting up being the unofficial signal that it was safe to start using the internet without getting shouted at for tying up the phone line

[MidTable]

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