Subj : hello! :DD
To   : Blue White
From : AKAcastor
Date : Tue Apr 16 2024 11:16:50

 BW> I started with an 8088 XT (well, actually a TI 99/4A, but the XT was my
 BW> first PC clone), skipped over the 286 era to a 386-40, then skipped over
 BW> the 486 era to a used Pentium-120.

 BW> The 386 is still my favorite computer.  ;)  It was the first one I ran a
 BW> BBS on.  The BBSes now all run on single board Pis and PCs.

I started on an XT-era machine also, a Tandy 1000 HX.  Single 720KB 3.5" floppy drive, but MS-DOS 2.11 in ROM meant no need for a boot disk - Tandy slipped some nice features into their computers in the 80s.

Got stuck on with the Tandy a long time, then finally got a 486DLC-40 with 4 megs of RAM - what a machine! :)  After the Tandy 1000 it was amazing to have a 486, and I got it at a time when my friends were on 386's so it was pretty badass.  I started reading the documentation for BBS software (Maximus) on the Tandy while I waited for my new 486 to come in - I remember I had to ask my friend to unzip the files onto double density floppies for me because I couldn't read the high density floppies my friend had given me.  I was determined that when I got that 486 I was going ONLINE!


Chris/akacastor

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