>>>Souvenirs, souvenirs, as we say in French...
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>LOL. Those were the days. There was a time when I returned a 386sx in favour of a much more powerful 386, for a better experience playing Wing Commander! And now a cheap cellular phone has orders of magnitude more resources than any of those desktops.
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>I also still have my TRS-80 from the early 1980s. I was privileged; I had the expansion interface that increased the Level II machine's 16K RAM (yes, 16K) to a mighty 48K - and allowed floppy disks with over 300K storage! Awesome.

So I took my 16K Spectrum (with 5 digit serial number!) to get it upped to 48... because someone a supply of those faulty 2K chips which had only 1K (one side didn't work). Later I even gave it a metal box with a profi keyboard, because the membrane's print got smeared around the shift keys - the print was actually in pieces - and had a reset button and a joystick port added. Even had a Centronix interface - not a true Kempston, but it worked.

And I kept the tiny screwdriver nearby, to adjust the cassette player's head azimuth when needed. Eh, those years.