My first computer

Daily writing prompt
Write about your first computer.

AMD K5/90, 8MB RAM, 1.08GB HDD, 1.44″ FDD, 14″ PW DISPLAY. $460, August 1997.

It smelled like ozone. I can close my eyes and smell it. The screen was black, the case was big and white. It had no games and no connection to the Internet. I had to install software with the floppy until I purchased a printer port cable to connect to my neighbor through LTP1. It cost a fortune – 2 years of savings and summer jobs plus anything my parents, brother, and grandmother could give.

That smell… it smelled like the future.