Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Dec 07 2022 22:32:54

 pF>  bo> The original IBM PC? Now that is
 pF>  bo> interesting because I can control every aspect of that machine.
 pF> 
 pF> True. I started with a Commodore 64, but it wasn't until I got a PC-XT
 pF> clone  that things really got interesting. There were virtually *no*
 pF> ports on the  motherboard, everything was done with add-on cards. So,
 pF> you could  incrementally upgrade it easily. I started with replacing the
 pF> 8088 CPU with  a V20, getting a math co-processor for my CS classwork,
 pF> upgrading the hard  drive and controller to RLL to get more space, then
 pF> replacing the  motherboard with an AT/287, inheriting a card that added
 pF> memory to the  system along with more I/O... by the time I was done the
 pF> only things left  original were the power supply and the case.
 pF> 

Same.  I wanted to do graphics on the Commodore 64, and program in "machine code" but books were hard to come by.  It wasn't until a couple of years later, when I had a 386, and an assembler, and books, where I could really feel that FINALLY I was able to really access the hardware.

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