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In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: |
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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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I had twice the storage. My 286 had a 40MB hard disk. It also had 1MB of |
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memory but only 640KB was accessible to the system without a memory |
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mapping hack. |
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It ran MSDOS 3.1. (Ah! the late '80s) |
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Gee I had a lot of fun on that machine. I could connect via 1200 baud |
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modem from my home to the university VAX-VMS and use the VAX Wordperfect |
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wordprocessor to do my course work and then send it to the University |
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printer, which produced beautiful results. |
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I wouldn't go back though! I love my HP quadcore laptop running Gentoo. |
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Regards, |
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Gregory. |
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