BC i'm impressed you still have a 286
well, "had" a 286; I scrapped it, silly bugger that I was. Ahh, I remember it's hardware- a Hercules Monochrome graphics adapter, and- um, other stuff, too.
My first computer, it was; a good 6 years ago, I used it regularly. Ironically when my current rig was manufactured...
Then I had a giant 386 server- about twice the size of a standard case; at a blazing 40Mhz.
gotta remember the days of using a soldering iron to double floppy disk capacity; place a hole on the side opposite the write-protect tab on a 720K(cheaper) disk, and BAM- double-size.
I remember my old Computer science teacher gave me the 386; he had personally modified the floppy drive to save him time burning holes in the floppies, and instead removed the photosensitive detection thingy and replacing it with a front-mounted switch.
Of course, it made it imperative to be careful not to bump it while using it.
this is pretty cool
If only I didn't throw out all of my old hard drives=(
heh, I sit here, and I stare at my gargantuan 50MB hard drive... with the affectionate letters written on top, D, U,D. How untrue that proved to be, when it still works fine. (the person I got it from claimed "you can try it, but it probably won't work". lol.
