Retro Computer: ComRace Ahtlon XP -- My First Proper Computer

My first contact with a computer was the Children’s Club, back in like 3rd grade. We had some Romanian-made Spectrum clones, manufactured at the now-defunct company ICE Felix, and they were named HC. There we used both the HC85 and we also had one HC2000, model that still eludes me to this day. After that, I was like in 8th grade when I first got my real x86 computer, a Jetta Jetbook 386, bought second hand from a good friend of mine. Jumping ahead do 2002, I was in 10th grade by then and my parents managed to scrape up some money and buy in like 24 instalments a computer. The unit doesn’t exist anymore, as I donated it to my niece in 2005, and it got lost to the sands of time. I vaguely remember its specifications, but I’m pretty sure it was an Athlon XP 1800+ (Palomino), which was in fact running at 1533 MHz, 128MB of DDR RAM, an MSI motherboard, a 40GB Maxtor hard drive (you can fit so much piracy in here!) and an nVIdia GeForce 2 MX 200 graphics card, with a whopping 32 MB of SDR…