Artosoft said:
Wow :bigeyes: . Still remember 286 with 1MB memory?
IIRC, my first computer is PC-AT 286 16MHz 1MB memory with MSDOS 3.30 :sweat: .
Regards,
Arto.
Actually, the first one I built on my own was in 1980 (or was it 1979?), based on Motorola 6802, having 2 KB EPROM and 8 KB RAM. Later, I expanded to 16KB EPROM and 32KB RAM and I/O devices, also wrote my own operating system, handling even a mass storage device, a dual supermodern diskette drive based on 720KB (!) 3,5" drives from NEC. The price of the two drives were about half of my monthly salary at that time. I built several after that, based on Rockwell 6502, Motorola 6809 and Hitachi 6303. The 286 came into my home later, I think in 1983 and by then, people stopped asking me questions like "What can you do with a computer?" However, at work I got my first PC in 1985. Before that, there were just no PCs capable of runing any applications I worked with, so we used PDP11 and VAX computers.
In fact, I still have some of my first home made computers plus a few 286, 386 laptops, 486/33MHz, Pentium I, II and III desktops. All perfectly functional. Some of these I still use for applications where I may need to risk a computers life. Even if so far I never fried any PC, I am careful about not risking the life of the ones I mostly need.
Once I saw a virus on a diskette I received from a friend in 1985. But even if I am not scared for viruses, I still have NIS on my most valuable computers at home, and also a firewall between my internet provider and my own LAN, so I guess you need to be a Hollywood actor to break into my computers.
Just a little nostalgic and historic trip.