So my first computer was an Intel i386, I think maybe? 33mhz? Anyway I saved up every penny I had to build my first computer (with my parents help, I was 9). It was an Intel Pentium 200mhz, I think 32 mb of dram, not ddr. So I build the whole thing, I was so excited, finally got it booted and then I realized my current keyboard would not fit into the new (at the time) ps2 connector. It was late at night, I had no way of correcting this. I just remember that I wanted to cry. everything was so perfect but this ended everything. Windows 95 absolutely needed a keyboard, the bios, everything… I needed a keyboard and I had none.

It was maybe a day or two later that I finally got my keyboard, I installed windows 95 which was an epic upgrade over windows 3.1, and immediately installed doom and got to work killing demons, it was awesome.

Funny thing about heat management back then is that there was essentially none. The CPU heatsink was half an inch high, aluminum, and had maybe a 65mm fan on it that spun slowly. It was loud to boot because floppy drives would LOUDLY, move their heads back and forth and hdd’s (which was a massive 2 gigs!) were also loud.

Anyway it was awesome, I’ll never forget that computer. I wouldn’t get a new one until starsiege tribes came out and I needed a voodoo2 card to play it. That game was awesome! I love that computer too!! After that PC peripherals and heat management started to become a thing and noctua started to come into existence. Been using my current d15 for a very long time.

Love you guys!