On Sunday 17 April 2005 9:28 pm, Tim Green wrote:
IBM PC-XT with 5.25" floppy (low density of 360KB per disk) and a whopping 20MB hard disk. The screen was IBM CGA (not much better than a ZX Spectrum). In its later years I ran a hooky copy of Windows 3.0 without a mouse (excellent way to learn the keyboard short cuts!).
Mine was a strange Atari PC3, more or less 100% IBM PC compatible. Amber EGA display and twin 5 1/4" drives. 8088 (like an 8086 but with an 8 bit bus) and an external 3 1/2" drive on the same sort of bus they provided on Atari ST's (it was actually an Atari ST drive)
It came with GEM and some associated office applications, never did get windows to run on it properly.
First Unixy experience was BSD on an Amiga 1200 (heavily modified with 030 processor, SCSI CDROM and a (massive for the time) 32MB of RAM) I still have it in the loft and keep threatening to bring it to a meet.