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Old 24th May 2020, 10:55 pm   #64
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Default Re: Early personal computers - what for?

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At the same time my parents bought an IBM PS/1, which was a mixed bag, being DOS based but having Works pre-installed, which helped building up my word processing and spreadsheet skills. It was still working OK in 2004 when I was on parental orders to get rid of it. I still have the hard drive & mouse from it somewhere.
The first computer I bought for myself was a PS/1. Intel 286 processor and DOS4, which could use DOS shell, a bit like the original Windows 1. Did everything I thought I would ever need, big mistake. The power supply was in the monitor and the disk drives were non standard. Long gone now, I still have a memory card (also non standard) somewhere.
I would have tried to kept the base unit if it could have been used without the monitor.
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