On 2014-03-11 08:17 (GMT+0100) Yamaban composed:
My first PC was a i386 / 25Mhz / 512kB-RAM / 40MB-ST506-HDD / VGA (640x480/256colors) in spring 1990.
Close to my first self-built. Whether in Spring or January or February I can't recall. It might have been April, after tax day the 15th. I actually started with a 16MHz 386SX & 4MB RAM, but within mere weeks I sold it to my boss in order to upgrade to 386DX-25 with 8MB @ about $42/MB. My 512MB Trident would do 16 color 800x600 on my 14" NEC Multisync to run Quattro Pro for DOS 30 rows by 132 columns. Also I passed on IDE, instead going to 80MB Seagate SCSI-II on an IN-2000 ISA HBA. The month after the Seagate's warranty expired it took to refusing to spin up without tapping on it to shake the heads loose from the platters. I mostly kept it running to avoid the spin up problem until a long power outage from March of 1993's no-name storm, after which no amount of coaxing would make it spin up any more. I bought a 100MB Quantum for $519 the month the spin up problem developed, so for a couple of years I had 180MB, with 3 partitions on each HD. When the Quantum finally died I got a 200MB Maxtor SCSI for $349, giving me a whopping 300MB total to last me until I got a Pentium 75, 32MB RAM and OS/2 to replace the aging DX, DesqView and DOS 5. :-) -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org