Reply to post: Re: Memories

Happy birthday, you lumbering MS-DOS-based mess: Windows 98 turns 20 today

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Re: Memories

> the joys of top-opening hinged, unlocked PC beige cases

I was on YTS and left school when I saw my first IBM AT 286 PC. You switched it on and it counted the installed memory. Wow! 2048KB... It was used for testing ISA graphics cards, so was inconstant use. It was about a year before I discovered that it even had a case!

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