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Wow, this reminds me how "stone knives and bearskins" the old days were. "The IBM PC came with five expansion slots, and they were in high demand. You needed on
by wpietri 4y ago
Wow, this reminds me how "stone knives and bearskins" the old days were. "The IBM PC came with five expansion slots, and they were in high demand. You needed one for the hard drive controller, one for the floppy drive controller, one for the video card, one for the printer parallel port, one for the mouse. Oh no, you ran out of slots, and you haven’t even gotten to installing a network card or expansion RAM yet!"
Uphill, in the snow, both ways, etc, etc.
- ecpottinger 4y agoWorse was Micro-channel PCs from IBM, you could not put a card in a slot unless you had a driver that supported that particular slot. You could have more slots than cards but found where you HAD to put one card would conflict with another card that needed the same slots.
- fencepost 4y agoI had a 386 AboveBoard IIRC, plus an 8-in-1 for all my I/O needs, HD controller, CGA adapter and of course the all important 2400 v.42bis modem for getting onto bulletin boards. Good times (but not accurate, because no system clock)
- thriftwy 4y agoThat's V.22bis - V.42 would get you a nice 33600 which I was often having up and until 2007 or so.