Subj : Tandon 80286
To   : Abbub
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue May 30 2023 11:31:15

  Re: Tandon 80286
  By: Abbub to All on Mon May 29 2023 09:17 am

 Ab> The first 'family' computer we had (other than the Tandy that my dad
 Ab> bought and then returned after about two weeks) was a 286 clone that we
 Ab> got around 1986, so this thing brings back some good memories. I learned
 Ab> how to code on a 286, first in GWBasic, and then in QuickBASIC. (I moved
 Ab> onto TurboPascal and then C when I got my own 386 during my senior year of
 Ab> high school.)

 Ab> I've installed a bunch of games that I remember playing on that old
 Ab> system. This is like a bonus round of reliving the past, though, because
 Ab> that old 286 had a hercules graphics card in it and this machine has a VGA
 Ab> card in it. (Oh, how I pined for an EGA card back in those days, or really
 Ab> any thing that could get me closer to the screenshots in the game
 Ab> magazines. (Only later did I realize that most of those were Amiga
 Ab> captures. :D) 

:)  Sometimes I think it would be fun to have a computer from the early-mid 90s to play games on, but I'm not sure where I'd put it, or even how much I'd use it.  I'd enjoy having that feel of using the actual hardware, but it's easy enough to emulate old PCs too.

Nightfox
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