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Originally Posted by copyrite
We still have an Apple IIe hiding in the basement hubby refuses to get rid of. No hard drive in that animal! First PC, a 286 had a whopping 20 mb hard drive (no modem of course).
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Man this thread is a blast from the past. First box I built had a 8088 then 8086 later a 286 with Harris math coprocessor screaming along at 20mhz. With a used full height 10mb hard drive, that came from at&t my first, and still have it!
The early boards with the dozens of jumpers on them that had to be configured, before they could be used
And the fun of trying to read the boards manuals that were Chinese or Japanese translated into English that was a wonderful puzzle to solve.
Those days were FUN!
Now what we are using and used to would have been
Magic to us back when.