(09-02-2025, 11:22 PM)Unseen Machine Wrote: My experience started on my hand me down pc (an IBM 286 with 1mb of ram and 20mb hard disk)...hardware im sure you guys would have drooled over!
We would have! I still remember getting my first 3.5" floppy drive, the Commodore 1581, which held a whopping 700k per disk! "What am I going to do with all this storage??" LoL, little did we know. My first IBM compatible was a 286 running DOS with 640 MB RAM (10x as much as the C64!) and a 20 MB HDD (I think it was RLL? Whatever they used before IDE and E-IDE and SCSI and SATA, etc.) 20 MB back then was a lot! I upgraded the motherboard to a 386 and managed to fit Windows 3.1 on it, though I had to use some trickery and delete the DOS files (which were loaded into memory) during the installation, to make enough room for it. Needless to say, with Windows you needed a whole other level of hardware.
(09-02-2025, 11:22 PM)Unseen Machine Wrote: You guys make me feel like a spring chicken though!
It's all relative! Kids turning 18 this year never lived in a world without the iPhone - how's that for a little perspective??
