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Dork of the year award goes to ME

XMan

XMan

Lifer
My father in law gave me a 486 DX75 to get rid of . . . and I was thinking, shoot, I'd really like to play Champions of Krynn again. 😀

So I formatted the HD (he had Windows 95 on that sucker . . . it ran like molasses) and I'm sitting here swapping out floppy disks . . . Dragonlance here I come. 😉

I actually kind of wish I'd had a system this good back in the day . . . DX75, 16MB of RAM, 640MB HD. 40X CD-ROM, #9 Pro video card, SoundBlaster . . . this is like a 1992 super-system! 😀
 
My first Packard Bell 486SX had 4mb of RAM in it.

I though it was so freakin' cool how the CD tray came OUT of the tower like that.

::sigh::
 
That's awesome man,
I wish I had kept my 486 DX 33MHz, I ended up throwing it away.
Had 4 megs of ram on that which i later upgraded to 20 for about $160 bucks ROFL and a 250 MB hard drive.
Good old 3.1 and Dos were the way.
I'm not sure but I think the DX75s were after 1992. I got my DX33 in December of 1993 for about $1400.00. and with my 14k modem I was set! didnt know much about comps back then but that was the beginning for me... not counting my atari, C64 and C128
It was all about Prince of Persia and Doom at that time 😉

Have fun with that
 
i have tandy 1000, 286, 386sx, 486, ppro200 --all working and all mothballed.

the big problem is that all my floppy disks are corrupted(age is not kind) --things like gunship, silent service, command HQ, tank platoon f117a, f19....and on. *sniffle*

on the bright side i notice they have re-released all the space quest games 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
My first Packard Bell 486SX had 4mb of RAM in it.

::sigh::
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My Packard Bell came with 2 meg of ram and a 120meg hard drive. I paid $160 for 4 1meg simms to update it to 6meg. Also spent about $350 for a DX2 overdrive chip to double the speed of it. Ah - the good old days.
 
Originally posted by: XMan
Originally posted by: oynaz
I just tried. It runs fine.
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Yeah, I could run it in DOS Box (waaaay too fast otherwise), but like I said, what's the fun in that? 😉
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He wants the authentic experience, with the click-clack keyboard and the vga monitor!

Reminds me of my old IBM Modell 55 PS2. Dude we bought it from had swapped the 286 processor or put a co-processor in it(286 enahnced) so it was almost a 386. I remember playing Flight Simulator 4.0 with the first 3d graphics I'd ever seen thinking that it was the shizzle. And the hours I spent trying to get Doom to run on it. Used to have to shrink the view window down to like 4in x 3in and turn off all the eye candy to get it to run anywhere near decent.
 
Brings back memories of making batch files and a time when you could by shareware games on floppies for $5 at PC stores. I've still got some DOS floppies around here but I'm not sure why.
 
My old AMD 486 DX-100 is still in use to download door information. I remember when my brother in law got his P90 I showed him a speed test program and my computer was faster than his.
 
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