This is my school essay:

My computer

1:st chapter; The history of my Computer

I have a computer, it's 386 and I have built it myself.
When I got my computer, it was an IBM XT. Then I bought a motherboard, it was 286 motherboard.
Some months later I got a modem, it's 2400Bps and I have it still now.
Then I got two disk drives, much better than my old drive.
I got a sound board named the soundMan Games for Christmas present last year, 1994.
Then I bought a new hard disk, because the old one was crashed.
The new one is Seagate model ST157A-1.
I got a VGA monitor from father's working place and SVGA videocard from my friends.
Then my father bought a new motherboard, it's Opti MB-1325PM.
After this I got some memory for a new motherboard, because my old memory didn't work on the new board.
The new memory is on SIMM-modules, the old memory was in DIP-chips.

And now I'm pleased with my computer, because it works well - the next purchase is and CD-ROM drive.

2:nd chapter; some things of me and my computer!

The computer is my best hobby, and a working tool too.
I play games, do homeworks (sometimes), listen to music, use Internet & Email, and do lots of other things with my computer.
I have got a lot of new friends by calling to BBS's.

I can do all much better with a computer than myself without it, because I can do all things very fast with a keyboard and mouse.
I can use graphic tools, and do lots of things with pictures with 16 million differebt colors.

If I want, I can call to some BBS and leave a message to Internet Email for my friend in California, or something... I can get new files from BBS's or get messages to read these Offline in home. I can get up my own BBS, too. Than I can call from school or friends to home. All this I can do with a modem.

The hard disk is the memory, where are all my programs, this text, pictures, games, and a lot of other files.

RAM is the memory, where this text andd all programs in the background is now (in real time), but where is nothing, when I shut down this computer.

And something about my computer now: (list is coming!)
CPU: Intel 80386dx/25MHz
Video: Cirrus Logic VESA SVGA
Monitor: IBM 12" (VGA Color)
OS: MS-DOS 6.0 (Maybe I update it to 6.22 or something...)
Shell: 4DOS 5.5C
Memory: 4MB (8x256KB SIMM and 2MB on card)
Other: SoundMan Games, 1.44MB and 1.2MB floppy drives, 43MB HDD,
2400Bps modem

And there is more of my computer:
In this summer (1995) I got 1.44MB and 1.2MB floppydrives and Baby tower.
Maybe I got a CD-ROM drive on next year - who knows?

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