Had something that was an Apple II or IBM clone…ran floppy floppies.
I couldn’t even save my documents, as I had no spare floppies and my parents didn’t understand we need blank ones as media lol.
Yet they were able to record TV to blank VHS’s…
But I learned BASIC on it. And played Garfield and Spiderman and Oregon Trail a lot.
Our second one was a Compaq, with a Pentium III, onboard motherboard GFX. 56k that never went beyond 4100 on the best of days, 1200 when raining. It fried eventually after a botched RAM upgrade by my brother.
It did run Merchwarrior III, FFXI and Tribes 2 swell when we got it a PCI graphics card before the botched RAM incident.
Off topic:
My brother coached me in PC building in ~02.
Most recently built a 5950X3D system. Thanks Microcenter. And R.I.P. my brother.
Had something that was an Apple II or IBM clone…ran floppy floppies.
I couldn’t even save my documents, as I had no spare floppies and my parents didn’t understand we need blank ones as media lol.
Yet they were able to record TV to blank VHS’s…
But I learned
BASICon it. And played Garfield and Spiderman and Oregon Trail a lot.Our second one was a Compaq, with a Pentium III, onboard motherboard GFX. 56k that never went beyond 4100 on the best of days, 1200 when raining. It fried eventually after a botched RAM upgrade by my brother.
It did run Merchwarrior III, FFXI and Tribes 2 swell when we got it a PCI graphics card before the botched RAM incident.
Off topic:
My brother coached me in PC building in ~02. Most recently built a 5950X3D system. Thanks Microcenter. And R.I.P. my brother.