Subj : Re: First Computer
To   : Garon
From : kirkspragg
Date : Sat Sep 14 2024 23:56:01

 Ga> First computer was an Amstrad 8088 with 640K RAM.  No HDD.  2 5.25" FDD
 Ga> - 1992 First computer I built: 386DX 4MB RAM, 213MB HDD 3.5" FDD.  --
 Ga> 1993

For me it was an IBM PS/1 model 2011, 10Mhz 286, 40 Mb hard drive and I think it has the 1Mb ram expansion.
 
 Ga> Upgraded over the years from 386 to 486, Pentium, ect.

That PS/1 was basically impossible to upgrade, after quite a few years & and the impending failure of the hard drive (it wasn't dead but is sure wasn't sounding healthy) ended up cobbling together a 86 DX40 build in an old AT case with whatever old parts I could scrounge or get cheap second hand. I managed to get an old ex server ESDI drive from a friend's Dad (he worked in telecommunications and they had just decommissioned an old server) for it & that got me a few hundred megabytes of storage.... 

Good times those!

A f u IBM for making it so hard to upgrade the PS/1 and PS/2 line of machines.

.... What was the date when you crashed? Picard

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