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JCL · #17 03-03-2014, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by haigha

Those were the days, 128 KB RAM, dual floppies, if you were lucky, CGA monitor (320x200x4 colors in the most popular "graphics" mode).

I think the AT came out around 84 though... PC 81, PC XT (with 10 MB hard drive!) 83 and then PC AT 84. Could be wrong, it has been a long time.

Ah yes. When floppies were, well, floppy.

Warm up times for monitors.

Renaming the format command to TAMROF so that users who now had hard drives didn't screw them up.

Dealing with the only two guys in the IT department who didn't feel it was beneath them to work on PCs.

When PC DOS wasn't exactly the same as MS DOS.

Building custom 386 machines with SCO Xenix so that we could have enough memory to run finite element analysis.

Glad we're past some of it.