Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: do you guys use retro
From:    Esc
Date:    Thu Nov 05, 2026 12:29

Subject: Re: do you guys use retro com
poindexter FORTRAN wrote:
PF> I bought a 386SX/16 because they were so cheap in the early-to-mid '90s.
PF> One of those with 2 MB of ram was a pretty decent DOS box with enough
PF> memory to run big applications or set up a cache. I held onto that thing
PF> until the 486es got cheap.

This was my first computer as well. Bought it at a computer show from a guy
named Bacon (it wasn't spelled that way and he wasn't from the US, but still
lol). That computer was rock solid, never had a problem. Then we got a 486dx66
that was also rock solid. After that we got a Pentium 90 (IIRC) which was
nothing but problems, and was also my main BBS machine.

-esc
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