[Viking2002]

A 286 and dual 5.25" floppy boot. You could read an entire paperback novel by the light of the orange text in one evening. Owned one. I eventually yanked the guts out, got a 3.5" floppy adapter tray, and converted it to a 386 SX so I could run Win 3.1. I held the mobo and power supply in place by using several sheets of styrofoam and a boxcutter to template it all. Back in the day when everything had it's own ISA controller card and the modem was a 14.4k baud dial-up. I scrounged and found a 20 MB HDD for it which could have doubled as a canoe anchor. I had to boot into DOS and toggle it to load Windows from there.

Better yet, brush up on your BASIC. LOL

[Bikkuri]

My first was a TRaSh 80, MicroColorComputer.. had a cassette player/cassette tape to save on.. 300Bd cradle modem.

Advanced to a "laptop" called Lazor (or something like that).. then my first 286, with a whopping 12MB HD.

I built all my PC (clones) after that.

[Elsie]

I truly miss BASIC

I could whip up a few lines of code and actually DO something creative with it.

Trying to get sOmething going with C++ etal is like climbing out of the water and crawling up the cliff at DOVER.