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    So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.

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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @MattSpeller
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      @MattSpeller said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

      @jrc said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

      @JaredBusch

      I've never actually used either TBH. I came up on IBM and IBM clones.

      Ditto, 486DX2!

      486DX2 80 MHrtz was my first x86 PC

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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        @JaredBusch said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

        @MattSpeller said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

        @jrc said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

        @JaredBusch

        I've never actually used either TBH. I came up on IBM and IBM clones.

        Ditto, 486DX2!

        486DX2 80 MHrtz was my first x86 PC

        That CBM PET was mine, 1979.

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          travisdh1 @JaredBusch
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          @JaredBusch said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

          @MattSpeller said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

          @jrc said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

          @JaredBusch

          I've never actually used either TBH. I came up on IBM and IBM clones.

          Ditto, 486DX2!

          486DX2 80 MHrtz was my first x86 PC

          That was the first one we had at home. I used those classic green screen things to write papers for school before that, because those "nice" PS/2 computers in the lab were always locked away in the room.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            The first computer we had at school was an Apple ][c that my mother donated to the school.

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              Texkonc
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              486DX2 66mhz was my first. A good friend had the 386.
              Fun days.

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              • brianlittlejohnB
                brianlittlejohn
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                My first was a 486 dx 33mhz with 4mb ram

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                • travisdh1T
                  travisdh1
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                  Please tell me I wasn't the only one that had a special boot floppy made just to eek enough memory to run that one program that really needed all 4MB of memory?

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                  • jrcJ
                    jrc @travisdh1
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                    @travisdh1 said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

                    Please tell me I wasn't the only one that had a special boot floppy made just to eek enough memory to run that one program that really needed all 4MB of memory?

                    Nope, I had spent a ton of time getting my memory config right. I remember I had it booting up completely with 620Kb of the 640k free as I had managed to push everything into the upper memory area,

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                    • travisdh1T
                      travisdh1 @jrc
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                      @jrc said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

                      @travisdh1 said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

                      Please tell me I wasn't the only one that had a special boot floppy made just to eek enough memory to run that one program that really needed all 4MB of memory?

                      Note, I had spent a ton of time getting my memory config right. I remember I had it booting up completely with 620Kb of the 640k free as I had managed to push everything into the upper memory area,

                      Yep, I remember spending hours on the main system and trying to optimize it. I remember having one game that no matter how well optimized the main system was. It was so close on what it used that removing the cdrom driver from the boot configs allowed it to run. Finding out about virtual memory was the best thing ever.

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                      • brianlittlejohnB
                        brianlittlejohn @travisdh1
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                        @travisdh1 said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:

                        Please tell me I wasn't the only one that had a special boot floppy made just to eek enough memory to run that one program that really needed all 4MB of memory?

                        I had to do that to play Sim City 2000 on DOS5

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                          Texkonc
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                          mmmmm RAM defraging

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