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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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>> On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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>> > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop |
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>> > > horizontal |
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>> > > all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a front-panel |
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>> > > (7-segment |
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>> > > LED) display between "4.77" and "8.00" |
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>> > > And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")... |
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>> > > And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... |
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>> > > As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... |
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>> > PC, XT or AT? |
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>> > Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz |
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>> > 386.. |
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>> Not sure... |
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>> It was a no-name clone... I think it's 8086... |
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> Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 MB |
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> hard disk. |
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> (Or maybe 80? My memory's failing me ATM) |
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Our 286 (that Tandy) came with a 20MB hard disk. The 386 I got as a |
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hand-me-down had a 540MB disk. (That was a bit of a golden age for me; |
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I never managed to fill that drive.) |
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