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A Compaq all-in-one 486 with TabWorks was our family computer when I was a kid. You've evoked some very fond memories. Windows didn't come with a programming en
by djur 13y ago
A Compaq all-in-one 486 with TabWorks was our family computer when I was a kid. You've evoked some very fond memories. Windows didn't come with a programming environment, but DOS had QBASIC, which is one of the best beginners' programming environments ever made.
That machine had a long lifetime for us. We upgraded the RAM as far as it would go, replaced the HD... even added one of those AMD "586" coprocessors.
- theandrewbailey 13y agoCool! After we had it for a year or so, said uncle put Windows 95 on it. Lost the speakerphone app and Lode Runner Online during the process, but gained the late 90s web. I downloaded that Lode Runner from the creators site around 2004[1], and had my first retro computing moment. It wasn't upgraded (except possibly RAM), and we had it from about 1995/6 until 1999, when my dad got a Pentium 166 that was surplus from an office move. [1] http://www.daggert.net/Folio/Programming/Presage/LodeRunner/Loderunner1.htm http://www.daggert.net/Folio/Programming/Presage/LodeRunner/...