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05-16-2016, 07:37 PM

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BTW, there was a reason why I returned my TRS-80. I just can't think of it right now.

There was a reason it was commonly referred to as the TRaSh-80

Actually other than not being compatible with anything else ours was a solid system.

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It's funny to think that Radio Shack was once the shiznit back in the day. LOL

For the last few year my wife and I referred to it as "get it on with a geek" as we were convinced "geek prostitution" was the only possible reason the stores had customers in them.

Even Microcenter is no longer the geek wonderland it used to be

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05-17-2016, 03:33 AM

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That was obviously the 486dx instead of the sx. In those days, Gateway was king of the PC. And Windows was finally usable with version 3.1 or in an office environment, Windows for Workgroups 3.1. Novell was king but about to begin its demise with word perfect, lotus, and Corel draw in tow.

IIRC, DOS 3.31 was the big breakthrough that allowed for partitions larger than 20MB, so then you could upgrade your MFM to an RLL controller and reformat your 20MB HD to 35MB.

Ahhh, those were the days. Now all the young pups seem to spurn anything that isn't cloud based Google apps. Hypocrisy I say!

My first PC: Gateway 2000, 233MHz Pentium II and 64MB RAM. Awww yeah, Windows 95! I think my favorite desktop was the Gateway I had after that, 800MHz P3 and 3DFX Voodoo graphics. Windows 98SE is still top 5 all time in terms of Windows releases, maybe top 3.

I design Skylake/W10 computers now. It's all technically still x86!

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05-17-2016, 10:41 AM

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The 3DFX was amazing! It totally changed my Quake playing experience. And between daily clan practice and weekend matches, that accounted for 30-40 hours a week. My country girl newlywed wife was like "I married this?!?!?" 20 years and 10 hobbies later, somehow she is still putting up with me.

That's pretty cool about designing systems. For Christmas, I bought 3 - $600 Alienware X51's for my sons and I. I figured I'd have to upgrade from there but with a cheap Chinese gaming keyboard and mouse, they've been awesome little rigs.