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Baked Potato

(7,733 posts) Thu Oct 10, 2019, 02:52 PM Oct 2019

I still have all my home built computers [View all]

My first build was in 90-91. It was an Intel 486 with a VESA local bus video card. It’s a tower. I have 3 other build ups I did for the kids, in the 90s. They did the schoolwork on them, and played shareware games like Duke Nukem. Some day we will fire them up and they can see what is on them.

I remember fooling around with the modem strings to get online faster and better. Always messing around with autoexec.bat . Self taught MS DOS, enough to get by.

The Bios batteries are probably dead.

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I still have all my home built computers [View all] Baked Potato Oct 2019 OP

Autoexec.bat and config.sys... KatyMan Oct 2019 #1

Oh yeah, I forgot config.sys Baked Potato Oct 2019 #2

You mean that new computers don't have that stuff? I probably need an update! Doodley Oct 2019 #3

Well, non Apple Baked Potato Oct 2019 #5

I fired up my old 95-era desktop the other year SemiHalfling Oct 2019 #4

Yeah, I'm hoping I won't have major problems Baked Potato Oct 2019 #7

Oh I forgot about those SemiHalfling Oct 2019 #9

Yeah, some of those numbers *were* billed darnit ! Baked Potato Oct 2019 #10

Well bless your heart.... AJT Oct 2019 #6

Yep, I've heard it !! Baked Potato Oct 2019 #8

Have about 50 computers, many from the 60s/70s unc70 Oct 2019 #11

Holy moly! That's cool! Baked Potato Oct 2019 #12

Wow, that's quite a collection SemiHalfling Oct 2019 #13

My wife tried to hold me at twelve larger computers for a few years. hunter Oct 2019 #21

I still have my Atari 800XL from the mid-80s, but not TV to connect it to..... lastlib Oct 2019 #14

Oh gosh, yes! Baked Potato Oct 2019 #17

PC World magazine said that that AST Premmia.... lastlib Oct 2019 #18

I remember ASTs Baked Potato Oct 2019 #19

I had Tandy XT, same deal. Was really GLAD to dump it for the AST! lastlib Oct 2019 #20

How about the constant IRQ battles?? MichaelSoE Oct 2019 #15

Oh yeah, I remember Baked Potato Oct 2019 #16