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1987 - for sale, latest greatest Computer
Intel 80286 DX CPU
20MB Seagate HD 3.5" floppy drive 2MB SIMM RAM Windows 2.0 I/O 2 serial, 1 parallel port VESA Bus Sale price advertised in Computer Shopper $ ???? Remember how much fun we had? |
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1987 - for sale, latest greatest Computer
"RDN" wrote in message ... Intel 80286 DX CPU 20MB Seagate HD 3.5" floppy drive 2MB SIMM RAM Windows 2.0 I/O 2 serial, 1 parallel port VESA Bus Sale price advertised in Computer Shopper $ ???? Remember how much fun we had? I did not think there was a 286 DX? And VLB came in on 468 mobos? I have a (UK) Computer Shopper laying about somewhere from 1992 or 1993 - The largest HDD you could get was a 80 meg (yes MEG) one for £300. When I bought my 486 DX40 (AMD made one, Intel did not) around that time for £130, the latest thing was the 486 DX-100 coming in at over £700! Yikes! Bob |
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1987 - for sale, latest greatest Computer
I remember an ad for a 286 computer system which said it was for "Power Users" Bahahaha. How ridiculous is that now. My first computer was an Franklin Ace 1200, which was an Apple II+ compatible. I loved it at first, but after the beginning I was sorely aware of its limitations and always wishing for more capabilities. Coin op arcade machines had much better games, and the big supercomputers had 3D graphics that blew away the Apple II's and IBM PC's. Yes I had some fun, but it was limited fun. To a large extent computers sucked back then. I have much more fun with my latest computer system with an AMD cpu. Now I'm more pleased with what the computer can do and not wishing as much for more capabilities. |
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1987 - for sale, latest greatest Computer
"RDN" wrote in message
... Intel 80286 DX CPU 20MB Seagate HD 3.5" floppy drive 2MB SIMM RAM Windows 2.0 I/O 2 serial, 1 parallel port VESA Bus Sale price advertised in Computer Shopper $ ???? Remember how much fun we had? The first one I worked on was an 8088 IMB dual floppy in 1982....I think. The first one I bought was a Compaq 286 suitcase computer running at a whopping 6mhz in 1985. It cost me $7,200 and weight about 40+ lbs. You could call it the first laptop. It even had a 10mb HD. I still remember going into Egghead Software in Portland (now Newegg) to buy software, and they had me set it up just to see it boot up. I'll never forget, one of the salesman said "what do you need all that power for?". Good times....... |
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1987 - for sale, latest greatest Computer
HI, got you all beat probably, 1978 Heathkit H8 with Z80 cpu upgrade, . 2M
disk drives, 3 hard sector 5 1/4 floppies, $10000. Also Heathkit H89 with Magnolia 2M floppies, 64M memory, $25000. I kicked myself I gave away my 1972 Altair computer for free.... doug www.lynncomp.com "RDN" wrote in message ... Intel 80286 DX CPU 20MB Seagate HD 3.5" floppy drive 2MB SIMM RAM Windows 2.0 I/O 2 serial, 1 parallel port VESA Bus Sale price advertised in Computer Shopper $ ???? Remember how much fun we had? |
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1987 - for sale, latest greatest Computer
Thats a Cadillac!
My first computer in 1980 or so was an Atari 800 with 16k ram!(later expanded to 64k!) It had a tape drive and also loaded programs like basic from cartridges. I had a rinky dink 1200 baud modem. I dont remember exactly but am pretty sure we paid around 800 bucks for it. Later I got an actual floppy drive! Highest resolution was something like 640x480 B&W or 320x240 256 color. Ther was a funky 160x480 16 shade 1 color mode with rectangular pixels. Great fun though. Star Raiders! The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game which would lock itself up and call you a dummy if you didnt finish it fast enough! BBSes! "Larry Hodges" wrote in message . .. "RDN" wrote in message ... Intel 80286 DX CPU 20MB Seagate HD 3.5" floppy drive 2MB SIMM RAM Windows 2.0 I/O 2 serial, 1 parallel port VESA Bus Sale price advertised in Computer Shopper $ ???? Remember how much fun we had? The first one I worked on was an 8088 IMB dual floppy in 1982....I think. The first one I bought was a Compaq 286 suitcase computer running at a whopping 6mhz in 1985. It cost me $7,200 and weight about 40+ lbs. You could call it the first laptop. It even had a 10mb HD. I still remember going into Egghead Software in Portland (now Newegg) to buy software, and they had me set it up just to see it boot up. I'll never forget, one of the salesman said "what do you need all that power for?". Good times....... |
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