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On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 05:47:44 -0500, philo <[email protected]> wrote:
>I've been giving Win 11 a good testing and think I needed to get away
>from the 21st century so I pulled an NEC386 out of my attic. It's been
>up there 20 years and doggone it...Put it on my bench and it booted
>right up.
>It has one of those box type cmos batteries that was not completely
>dead...2v and the clock had only lost 15 years :)
>I actually had a spare battery for it, quite old but 3v. I think a new
>one would be 4.5v
>Anyway it had Word Perfect on it and I finally figured out how to exit. F7
>It has 2 megs of RAM, a 16mhz cpu and a 40 meg MFM drive.
>I sent a message to NEC and they actually replied withinthe hour. They
>were glad I liked the 386 and that the company is now only in Japan.
Ahhh the memories .. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000#/media/File:Tandy_1000_rl_1.jpg
My first computer was the sleek little Tandy 1000 RSX < AMD 386 >.
which cost me $ 700. < on sale > included keyboard, mouse, and
a 13 inch rgb monitor. < ~ 1 mb ram 60 mb HD ? >
I remember saving-up $ and nervously installing the math
co-processor and extra RAM. < another ~ $ 200. >
Tandy's DeskMate " op sys " was interesting.
I think it was Win 3.1 otherwise.
John T.