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To: mamelukesabre

I was poor and way behind the technology curve when I bought my used Tandy 386SX with a 33mhz processor, 4MB of RAM and about 100MB of harddrive space. (Windows 3.1) I had to add a 33.6 modem and a sound card to get online. (the ISP felt my pain and send me a floppy with Netscape 1.22, it hadn’t come with a browser).... I think the Pentiums were just on the market. I remember seeing an external CD-burner on sale for something like $999 or the like. Amazing how that price dropped.

lol.


8 posted on 02/01/2012 8:28:58 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

I was using a third hand commodore colt(IBM PC copy) with an 8088 CPU and a 4th hand IBM monochrome amber monitor in the early 90s. It had a hard drive, floppy drive and modem, but couldn’t run windows. I used it for wordperfect and quattro pro.


13 posted on 02/01/2012 8:41:36 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: GeronL

My first Goldstar 286 pc had a 20 meg HD. Today that would fit about 4 mp3s. I paid $2000. :)


14 posted on 02/01/2012 8:42:02 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: GeronL

My first Goldstar 286 pc had a 20 meg HD. Today that would fit about 4 mp3s. I paid $2000. :)


15 posted on 02/01/2012 8:42:02 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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