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On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 14:22:17 -0500, philo <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 10/4/21 7:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 05:47:44 -0500, philo <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>> 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.
>>
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>$700 was cheap even for what you got.
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I forget the exact year, but 486's were coming on - becoming
almost affordable & getting cheaper by-the-month it seemed -
and I was intent on staying well under $ 1. grand.
John T.