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lastlib

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

Reply to Baked Potato (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2019, 10:40 PM

Oct 2019

Also have my AST Premmia 486, w/ Windows 3.1, 66MHz, with a 350-MB original hard drive, and a500-MB added drive. That machine was a BEAST!

Ah, the memories! (I even still have my 16th-birthday present, a steel Pickett slide rule! What a nerd I am!)

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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