[ken in texas]

I held out for the amazing 286 processor, and paid $370 for a Seagate 40MB hard drive plus an extra $96 for the MFM hard drive controller. The truly adventerous would try the drive with a RLL controller -- if all worked well you could get 60MB out of the 40MB drive.

Those were some fun days, but it could sure get expensive.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I'm reeling in the memories. I bought the 286 right after my 8088. I couldn't believe how wonderful it was to have a hard drive and a real color monitor. My old one had 4 colors, this one had 4,096 (16 shades of RBG). I would just stare at the screen sometimes. Then came my lightning fast 20 Mhz 396. Then my Pentium 90. None of them would last very long.

[catfish1957]

In 1986 I paid $2300 of IBM XT Clone. It had 640K RAM, a 32 Mb HD, and a CGA monitor, which had a wonderous three colors to it.

Sucker had a turbo charge button on it toio, which tooking it to a blazing 7 mhz processor speed.

Windows?, what was that? Back then DOS was our friend.