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<blockquote data-quote="Whiskeyman" data-source="post: 733208" data-attributes="member: 13556"><p>I hear you, Danno. My first real computer was an IBM PC, purchased in the early 1980s. It had the upgrade of two double-sided, high-density floppy drives and an extra 64 kB of RAM for a total of 128 kB. No hard drive; they weren't even available at the time. I had speed issues with some of my school assignments on the thing, so I went out and purchased another 64 kB of RAM, for a total of 192 kB, which led to several of my school mates wanting to use my computer for the same assignments. Yeah, I had the hottest desktop computer around for a little while. And I didn't have to wait forever to use it like the ones at college.</p><p></p><p>That machine was a tank! It was still working over 20 years later. I left it with my parents so my younger brother could use it and then never got it back from them. They finally gave it to a local animal shelter that needed one to run some old software on. Supposedly, it was still working ten years after that, and I'd bet that it still is if it hasn't been exposed to a power surge.</p><p></p><p>WM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whiskeyman, post: 733208, member: 13556"] I hear you, Danno. My first real computer was an IBM PC, purchased in the early 1980s. It had the upgrade of two double-sided, high-density floppy drives and an extra 64 kB of RAM for a total of 128 kB. No hard drive; they weren't even available at the time. I had speed issues with some of my school assignments on the thing, so I went out and purchased another 64 kB of RAM, for a total of 192 kB, which led to several of my school mates wanting to use my computer for the same assignments. Yeah, I had the hottest desktop computer around for a little while. And I didn't have to wait forever to use it like the ones at college. That machine was a tank! It was still working over 20 years later. I left it with my parents so my younger brother could use it and then never got it back from them. They finally gave it to a local animal shelter that needed one to run some old software on. Supposedly, it was still working ten years after that, and I'd bet that it still is if it hasn't been exposed to a power surge. WM [/QUOTE]
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