Pain is....

[Rapscallion]

My first one cost me about twenty quid, though it was a portable desktop given the size. Orange lettering on a lack background. It might have had a half meg of RAM, but I wouldn't count on it. Only took 720Kb floppies, but it still worked for a year or two until it gave up the ghost.

It was great for text editing on DOS, and that was about it. Did all I needed, and I started writing a novel on that fellow.

Rapscallion

[symposes]

The computers we have access to at work, to mess around on the net during lunch and breaks, are running XP with 128 megs, and they are slow as hell.
I would probly perfer to grab a hold of a 110v hot wire, then try and use them.
(I just use my comp at home, whatever it is, it can wait. I dont use the company email at all, and considering they watch internet like a hawk, i dont need some popup from nowhere costing me my job)

[technical.angel]

This was in 98. Don't even ask about it's connection speed.

What was it's connection speed?

Jenni

[LostMyMind]

Oh, it was faster than my 80'ish modem for my TI99/4a. If I had to guess, I would say 1200 or 2400 baud.

[repsac]

What was it's connection speed?

Jenni

about 4 k on a good day.

[LostMyMind]

Wow, faster than what I guessed. I must be getting rusty there.

[EmiOfBrie]

Pain is...

...Spending 2 hours trying to get "WinAntiVirus" (a known piece of malware, it does exactly the opposite of what it says it is) off the boss' laptop computer, then being chewed out because it still won't run right (because he wouldn't let me run Ad-Aware nor Spybot S&D on it to clean off the flotsam)

...a week later, having a problem with Act 6.0 on my workstation, knowing I have to simply reinstall it, and being told by the boss not to do anything because of said previous experience with the laptop. The boss then ends up paying someone extra $$$$ to do exactly what I would have done during my normal work time.

Overall, said boss is mega-great to me (including treating me to lunch some Fridays) but there are some times where I just want to throttle him. He has also learned to trust me more around the company PCs and server since the aforementioned incident, especially after I cleaned an internet worm off the mass-e-mailing workstation

[Tanasi]

My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model one. It had a whopping 16K, a cassette drive. We later upgraded it to a blistering 48K with two countem two single sided 5.25 floppy drives. You had to buy the floppies pre-formatted from RS and they were $9.99 each. We had a Oki U82a printer with the graphics upgrade chip.
Eventually my younger brother put a 10 meg HD on it and it continued to run for years. It's packed up in the OEM boxes at my Mom's house and it was still working when it was put away and I have no doubt that it would fire up, now weather the floppies have de-resed by now who knows. This thing put off so much RF that you couldn't watch any TV channels under channel 8. It didn't have any fans and it would over heat in about 2 hours. A couple really fun games was Haunted House and Zork both text based.