Subj : Re: First Computer
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Sep 20 2024 07:05:00

-=> MIKE POWELL wrote to KIRKSPRAGG <=-

 MP> Initially I am not sure but when I got my first 8088-XT clone in late
 MP> 1987, the clones were very much cheaper *and* easier to add components
 MP> to.

There was a whole "swap meet" culture in the bay area back then, lots of
hobbyists and computer stores selling their wares at the Cow Palace, an
old livestock convention center in San Francisco. I remember walking
into a (what seemed to be huge) selling floor, people selling used hard
drives, lots of cards and components out of boxes, tubes of loose memory
chips; I bought a new clock chrystal for my 286 to speed it up. I was
studying computer science, I should have bought a 287!  :(



 
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