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Originally Posted by DustyDisks
Man this thread is a blast from the past. First box I built had a 8088 then 8086 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!
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My first Intel iron was a 286. It did not have a coprocessor, so I had to run an emulator to run autocad. It was slow, but not as slow as driving an hour to look at a picture when there was a problem. It was advertised as coming with a 40m disk. That turned out to be a typo, but they put one in for me. It had to be partitioned, though, because DOS didn't recognize partitions over 32m. Every file I owned fit comfortably on that 8m D: drive. Part of the appeal was the vga video which allowed the PC to play games that competed with my aging Atari. NFL Challenge, Kings Quest, and Commander Keen come to mind. I had to add a sound card too. I used that computer from 1989 to 1993 when I bought the 486 -- which had a coprocessor.