Posted on 12/07/2009 11:03:42 PM PST by Swordmaker
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No, it's not an AT. It's an XT, or more accurately -- an XT clone. The XT was just the original PC with a hard disc:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT
The subsequent AT had a 286 processor. It was originally 6 MHZ, and later versions were 8 MHZ:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer/AT
IBM's successor (the PS/2) and the clones started diverging after this. However, the 80386 (386) processor used by all started at 12 MHZ and was as fast as 33 MHZ:
Hand raised. I thought I was supernatural, for just a bit.
Lotus123?
I used 1-2-3, Multiplan, Quattro Pro 5. I still fire them up once in a while and take them for a spin. They work great under XP, especially Quattro Pro.
There's a downloadable version of Visicalc at Dan Bricklin's website, its only 27k.
As a matter of fact, yes. I wrote a driver for a friend to interface dBase 2 with a magnetic card stripe reader/writer.
>>Hand raised. I thought I was supernatural, for just a bit.<<
No doubt a flashback to coding Z80 assembler. Index Registers, Hot Damn!
Thanks for bringing me back from the precipice. And you do remind me that 25-33 was the 386 — we didn’t start kicking butt like 50-64 Mhz until the 486!
Of course, Vista has reduced performance of our multi Ghz, multi-CPU systems to about the same as our old 4 MhZ XTs.
Wow — the memories are killing me (in a good way).
>>There’s a downloadable version of Visicalc at Dan Bricklin’s website, its only 27k.<<
Lordy — I am going to download it after I get some sleep. I remember having discussions on Bitnet Relay and I wouldn’t sleep for days. But I had dark hair and no paunch back then... LOL
‘Night.
Watch vid or dd
The 486 started at 20 MHz:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i486
The chip's front-side bus was eventually as fast as 50 MHz (albeit with thermal problems, initially). But, I think it was the first consumer microprocessor chip that used a clock multiplier in the CPU -- first with 2X (33 MHz FSB and 66 MHz CPU) and eventually 3X (33 MHz FSB and 100 MHz CPU)
PCjr.
I also started with Dr. Paul’s Aldus PageMaker, way, way back in the day.
Changed my life.
Ed
I still maintain that Vista sold more Macs than those silly Apple ads with the hipster and the suit.
Lol
Booyah! Akin to "retro" videogames (market demographic, I would just guess, is paying attention to this FR thread), retro "software" could be a terrific marketplace. Under current conditions, anything in texted script would be almost bulletproof.
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Unfortunately I can’t use PageMaker anymore...I’m on Leopard, which doesn’t allow me to run Mac OS software 9x and below...darnit!
I use InDesign now, but I really loved PM, quite user friendly and I got to where I could run it in my sleep...hotkeys, utilities and all.
See ya’,
Ed
Wait until intellectual properties expire - any batch of eager retro script-kids could set up an OS that can run at text-level. K.I.S.S.
Much of the old stuff was so well-designed and user-subservient we need to issue retroactive prizes.
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