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My first PC, bought back in the summer of 1986, was an Opus (now defunct UK clone builder) with a 12MHz 286 processor, 1MB of RAM and a 37.5MB (RLL not MFM) 3.5
by teh_klev 8y ago
My first PC, bought back in the summer of 1986, was an Opus (now defunct UK clone builder) with a 12MHz 286 processor, 1MB of RAM and a 37.5MB (RLL not MFM) 3.5" hard disk. It cost me an eye watering GBP 1200 (I was still a student at the time). However it did pay for itself quite quickly doing homers in knocking out dBase II and dBase III "apps" (and eventually Clipper stuff).
This thing had a turbo button on the front which would switch the CPU between 4.77MHz and 12MHz. I never had a need to run in 4.77 mode except for nostalgia purposes (I bumped into IBM PC's and compatibles quite early on).