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I remember the first time I got my sweaty little hands on a 286 with VGA graphics (before that I had an XT with CGA). It was like stepping into the future. Sh
by noir_lord 10y ago
I remember the first time I got my sweaty little hands on a 286 with VGA graphics (before that I had an XT with CGA).
It was like stepping into the future.
Shortly after I got my hands on a 386 Elonex laptop with B&W VGA and it was amazing (I got it from a family friend who was binning it, the ribbon between the screen and the base had snapped and it was a 50p part for a machine that was selling well north of a 1000 at the time).
- bluesign 10y agoI owe my whole career to my stubborness and a broken ribbon cable to HDD on a 286. countless hours and library time to figure out to read HDD with only DOS debug program, and int13. Ooo man i wish i have the same patience and stubborness now
- noir_lord 10y agoFor me it was writing a program to balance my mums household accounts on a ZX Spectrum and figuring out how to load/save data to a tape. Bless her she actually used it even though it was about as much work as doing it by hand. I think she was just trying to keep an excited 9yo happy. It ended up been rather more sophisticated than the original plan.