Re: NEC 386

philo wrote:
> On 10/4/21 11:57 AM, Richard wrote:
>> philo <[email protected]> wrote on Mon, 4 Oct 2021:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Damn, where is my Intel 8088 MS-DOS system with 640 KB RAM, Hercules
>> screen and two floppy drives and without modem and hard drive?
>>
>> Richard
>>
>
>
> I am having fun diffing through my attic.
>
> I do have an IBM 8088 up there.
>
> Right now I'm working on a ps-1   486
>
> Damn cmos battery kept the right date!
>
>
> It had 2 megs of RAM that I now took up to 64 megs
>
> Label on the case says expandable to 64 megs and Pentium technology.
>
> 486 is soldered in, upgrading to Pentium a bit difficult.

Somewhere I have stored a Tandy 1200A with 10 Meg harddrive.  My next 
computer was a 486 25Mhz Dx with a 100 Meg harddrive.  I remember trying to 
figure out how I would ever use 100 Megs of storage space.  When you figure 
in inflation these computers would probably cost at least $6,000 to $8,000 
in todays money.  I believe the first IBM PC was about $3,100 in 1981 which 
would probably be about $12,000 in todays money.
-- 
<Bill>

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