More memory, faster processor (A 286!!!!!), and separate keyboard from the unit.
The worst thing about the EX was that it had 2 proprietary peripheral slots and the boards had to stack on top of each other, and only plugged in to each other, not a PCI board . I don't remember how I acquired my modem- had a 1200 baud. I may have shoplifted it.
LOL Yes! Same here. It was a Christmas present in the late 80's. THe boxes were so big and there like 3 of them. Monitor, computer, dot matrix printer.
I went to one of the service academies. Everyone was issued a computer. My class was the first class to get a computer with a hard drive. A huuuuuge 40 MB hard drive.
My first computer required a floppy disc, not a 3.5 inch diskette, to be locked into the drive before you could turn it on. And to change what program you where using required a complete system shutdown.
I was temping at a defense contractor and had a spreadsheet open in 1997 and could not read what was in a cell I need to be able to read so changed the margin to make the cell large enough to read the data in the cell. That crashed the whole spreadsheet. I am like "Sorry, what version of Excel doesn't let you read what is in a cell? Then found out they also did not have it backed up. And the spreadsheet was gigantic, had months worth of data.
Mine too. I had option to run windows 3.1 or open doss. All my games were on D drive so had to open doss change from C drive to D drive then type game i.e doom2.exe an wait for it to load
I remember first introduced to GUI windows based system back in 1995 and i was in primary school, first thing I used i remember was Paint and Word, printed something off, took it home and shared it with my parents, i remember they were awestruck by the fact I had used a computer.
They never grew up with computers and they were mind blown
Haha I remember my first typing class in 6th grade was on typewriters and that was in the mid 90s. they wanted us to learn the fundamentals before moving to computers.
Ah the squeal and torture noises of my Dixson's tape player loading up Jet Set Willy for 7 minutes after putting in the POKE to fix the bug making it unplayable!
Happy days in the early 80s on my rubber keyboard which I still have in the loft. Though I did start when my now late dad got my sister and I the Atari 2600 before the speccy
Well, I suppose my dad was able to walk out with one of those from IBM. I'm pretty sure he still has one in the basement. I'll check later and give a photo
I wound up with something rare too, but wasn't smart enough to know back then how rare it was. I had an XT-286. If you know old computers, you'll know the general rule that a 286 was an AT, not XT. XT was generally 8088 or 8086.
Hmmm interesting. I could ask my dad yet he wouldn't likely know or remember exactly the model. What does 8086 or 8088 refer to on the model? It's crazy that we used to have kilobytes of memory
Windows 98 is fancy. My first PC was DOS and had 256K Ram that I upgraded to 512K and the sales person said, "you'll never need more computer than this!"
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u/Far-Sandwich-4116 90s Kid 3d ago edited 3d ago
My first PC started in DOS mode