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HA! I left Radio Shack about ten years earlier - computers weren't quite there yet. Still a proper audio/hobbyist store, but the tide was just starting to turn.
Oh, and "Dave" looks and sounds just like a lot of the sales force of those times. :smirk:
Oh, and "Dave" looks and sounds just like a lot of the sales force of those times. :smirk:
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Funny!
By '89 I had a hand-me-down DUAL 5.25" floppy drives in an Epson QX-16 with the 8088. And DOS 2.11, IIRC. Came with CPM-80 and Valdocs too but I opted to concentrate on the MS stuff.
By 1993 I was building AMD 486-66 machines, Three sold to finance one for US! WOOHOO!!! It became a crude (by today's standards) animation platform for Herself to produce digital artworks for clients. We published a monthly 16 page newstab "community" paper with that, too.
Amazing how far we've come with these infernal things. :smirk:
By '89 I had a hand-me-down DUAL 5.25" floppy drives in an Epson QX-16 with the 8088. And DOS 2.11, IIRC. Came with CPM-80 and Valdocs too but I opted to concentrate on the MS stuff.
By 1993 I was building AMD 486-66 machines, Three sold to finance one for US! WOOHOO!!! It became a crude (by today's standards) animation platform for Herself to produce digital artworks for clients. We published a monthly 16 page newstab "community" paper with that, too.
Amazing how far we've come with these infernal things. :smirk:
I still have my Amstrad somewhere in the basement. It was a 8088 with 2 5.25" drives but I did upgrade it to a 30 Meg Hard card. Was told that would be all the storage that I would ever need. A 9 Pin dot matrices printer.
My second desk top was a 286 with Dos 3.0 that had been built for a customer. It would not run a game he had so I bought it for cost I put together all my desktops. At one point I was doing some video editing so I needed a very specific set of components in my desktop. It was just school video but I could make them a bit more watchable by cutting out the long boring bits.
It is truly amazing how far things have come
David
My second desk top was a 286 with Dos 3.0 that had been built for a customer. It would not run a game he had so I bought it for cost I put together all my desktops. At one point I was doing some video editing so I needed a very specific set of components in my desktop. It was just school video but I could make them a bit more watchable by cutting out the long boring bits.
It is truly amazing how far things have come
David