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>>>My first PC was an IBM XT with 256 kb of memory (paid extra for the upgrade from 128K ;-) ), a 20 MB hard drive, a crap monitor you wouldn't let the dog play with these days, and a NEC SpinWriter daisy wheel printer. Over $7000 in 1984 dollars. I should have hung onto it just so I could donate it to a museum.
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>>He$$, I should have kept my first portable:
>>one of those compaq double shoe boxes with a green screen slightly larger than todays smartphone screens...
>>and my first intel workstation (after an interlude with atari sporting 4MB of linear RAM)
>>having 8MB and OS/2 still in text mode - that cost serious money back then...
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>I bought the OS/2 SDK, if you can believe that. It cost about $3000 and came with about 10 shelf feet of manuals. It was right around the time I realized I was never going to apply myself to it that it became clear Windows had won the OS war.

Actually I programmed for data mining in OS/2 up until 1995 or so and liked it -
linear adress space was addicting and I ported the programs first to DOS
and then to NT4. WinXX on Dos was not for me -
I had a version with the Expanded MS(? the thing with the 64K window into upper areas)
which was 2.8 times slower than OS/2 and extended memory.

must be getting old - too much fondness of the past ;-)

regards

thomas