[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.

[ken in texas]

Yeah, the EGA monitor was wonderful. I couldn't quite afford VGA yet. I'd forgotten about the Turbo button, that really made it fly.

I do remember sitting at the kitchen table, grounding precautions everywhere, painstakingly adding chips to fill out the memory board. Then a new version of DOS came along with support for Expanded Memory. Spent much time editing boot files to get the "LoadHigh" stuff in the right order.