-=> Mro wrote to Nightfox <=-
Mr> i'm not saying he's a liar, but i never heard of such a thing and i
Mr> used to get old computers from my uncles businesses that were 286 and
Mr> earlier and i had friends back in the day that had EVERYTHING, old and
Mr> new. ---
Back in those days, I used to collect hardware and build my own PCs to save
(heaps of) money, so I have good recollection of the cards I needed. A far cry
from today's desktop that needs only the motherboard (though more often than
not, a display adapter is added to improve on the one board one), drives and a
power supply inside the case.
My first PC was a home built XT clone (8088 based PC). From memory, I had 640k
RAM, think this motherboard actually had the RAM on board, parallel and serial
ports on two multi I/O cards, a multiport ham radio TNC card, floppy
controller, monochrome (text only) display card (later upgraded to CGA).
Later, I added a hard disk controller and 10MB MFM drive. This PC I'm on now
has 100,000 times the storage capacity! :)
... Deja Booboo: When you feel you've screwed this up before.
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