i had one of these bad boys made by Packard Bell. they used this processor generation until the early 90s
had 640 KB (that's kilobytes) of RAM which would count up whenever you started to ensure it wasn't corrupted
and a 40 MB hard drive
had to learn how to use it from a hundreds of pages long manual in a 3-ring binder
wrote my first programs in GW-BASIC on it
played Test Drive, Prince of Persia, Commander Keen, Black Cauldron, and F-117A Stealth Fighter among others on it
kept it all the way until DOS 6 (DOS Shell was a real revelation), but it couldn't run Windows
later upgraded to a 486 and then Pentium after that
what a time to start using computers, especially reflecting on what we have now, and with AI

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The 286 processor is 44 years old this month. What.

most importantly, played Civilization 1 and SimCity on it
goated games
the case was built like a tank and was made out of all metal. when you flipped the beast of a power switch, it felt like you did something
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