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To: Lx
> I've been running Windows 10 on a PC XT and while it runs slow and in CGA, the hardware was cheap!

That's just a little hard to believe.... :-)

11 posted on 01/17/2016 6:55:26 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: dayglored; Lx
He could be running Windows 2.0. Windows 3.0 (11 in binary) was the highest supported by that processor IIRC ;)

On the other hand, if he were more technically inclined, he would do well to convert the keyboard and bring its mechanical keys to a modern machine. Those keyboards, while being old, still fetch good sums - even after conversion.

16 posted on 01/17/2016 7:06:49 AM PST by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: dayglored

Well, it must have been ‘double clocked’...................


23 posted on 01/17/2016 7:28:38 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: dayglored
That's just a little hard to believe.... :-)

No kidding. Check the prices for a working PC XT on Ebay.

36 posted on 01/17/2016 8:18:44 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: dayglored
I've been running Windows 10 on a PC XT and while it runs slow and in CGA, the hardware was cheap!
That's just a little hard to believe.... :-)

Yeah, but he's using one that has DUAL 5 1/4" 360K floppies. :-)

75 posted on 01/17/2016 6:38:18 PM PST by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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