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cubano on Dec 24, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Business Card Runs Linux

My dad got one of those for us both to use...what was truly "whopping" about it was its price...

If I remember right it was almost $3k...but that included that blazing fast 300bps Hayes modem for wide-area networking.

And my mind was truly blown when we replaced the 2nd floppy with a more-memory-then-we-will-EVER-need 20MB hard drive...what could we do with all those bits??

nonamenoslogan on Dec 25, 2019 | [–]

Yeah the prices were crazy! My first was a 10Mhz AMD 286 clone with 1mb and a 40mb HDD. I recall it being $2600 with a 13” SVGA monitor.

xenospn on Dec 25, 2019 | [–]

Same! We got 640kb of ram and a mouse! The HDD didn’t arrive until we got a 286, tho.

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