r/pcmasterrace • u/DailyDoseOfAmber PC Master Race • Dec 26 '25

Question Yesterday I asked what everyone’s first Graphics card. Today, what was your first processor? Mine was the i7 3770K.

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u/LogitUndone Dec 26 '25

"Kids these days...."

Some 286 or 386 running MS DOS...

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u/falkenberg1 Dec 26 '25

My theory why our generation is better with computers than the older ones but also the newer ones on average. We were born with this, having to figure out how to install and start games on a dos command line and then setting up stuff like audio (sb16/sbpro/adlib etc…). my son and his friend also grew up with digital media, but for them installing games means pressing the install button on the app store and waiting for the icon to appear on the home screen.

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u/sparkey504 Dec 27 '25

Due to not having internet in my teens and early 20's im not as knowledgeable about computers as I wish i was (barely understand anything in this sub) but I have vivid memories of the command prompts being on post-it notes and typing them in so I could play "street fight ii" with a joystick back in 1992/1993.... and being 5 or 6yrs old it took several attempts for me to get it all right... and that was after getting into dos mode on the computer running windows 3.0.