Subj : My new* 486 (*=old)
To   : xbit
From : Ben Collver
Date : Sat Feb 11 2023 17:20:16

  Re: My new* 486 (*=old)
  By: xbit to Ben Collver on Fri Feb 10 2023 10:19:14

 > This is an amazing system Ben! Does it have the big blue IBM when you first
 > trun it on? Yes, a very nice retro PC with the perfect CPU for old and newer
 > dos games.
 >
 > Very sorry about this. Please keep us posted when you found the solution as
 > this is a great PC.
 >
 > Do you wish you still had this one? :)

Yes, it does have the big blue IBM when i first turn it on.  I will keep you posted when i get to the bottom of it.

I do wish i still had my first PC.  It had several hand-me-down upgrades over the years including maxing out the conventional memory, adding an Orchid Tiny Turbo 286 upgrade that plugged into an 8-bit ISA slot plus a ribbon cable from the card to the 8088 CPU socket, replacing one of the full-height floppy drives with a full-height 80mb MFM hard disk, adding a Hercules monochrome controller and monitor, and a cassette tape "drive" from a yard sale bargain.  I remember using the SIMCGA.COM TSR to play commercial games, simulating CGA by dithering
to the higher-res Hercules monochrome display.

Which kind of retro games are you into?

-Ben

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