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The title might sound familiar to some, although it problably depends on the household.

I know that "family computers" used to be a thing, had one myself in mine household.

Just one lonesome PC, on some desk somewhere, problably not the newest thing on the market, but it's still there for the important tasks. It's a thing that seems to have went away... From my perspective, due to the rise of mobile touchscreen devices, though i wouldn't be suprised if something else was at play

What were your stories, if you want to tell?
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I always remember visiting my grandparents' house on a Wednesday after school, and I'd get some time on the computer. Would have been ~2008/2009 or so and this was a desktop running Windows 98.

My Dad built it some years earlier using his old system, it was in this mostly transparent and silver case, with blue lighting - still looked cool though. Ran a Cyrix CPU of some sort (I remember the sticker) and a pair of Voodoo 2 cards running in SLI. Honestly, it was complete excess for my grandparents, as it was used to write letters and occasionally play solitaire. However, it looked like the coolest thing I'd ever seen and I built a Windows 98 PC to relive those moments I had, mainly sitting on the CBeebies website, or Cartoon Network.

We lost the system when the hard drive died in 2011, and my Granda bought himself a Compaq CQ56 as it seemed like a good idea at the time. The desktop wasn't worth anything, so off it went.

He's got an IBM Aptiva 2170 (K6-2 450, 64MB RAM, 4GB hard drive etc) now as he missed playing solitaire.

I quite enjoyed writing this post, a little trip into nostalgia.
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- Ryan
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