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" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message
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I skipped the 386. Went straight from a Pal 286 running GeoWorks to a
486 with Windows and a blazingly fast 1200 baud modem. The Pal had an 8
Mhz clockspeed with a "turbo" button that would boost it up to 12 Mhz.
40 MB hard drive.

Eisboch

Eisboch




Tandy or Commodore?


Neither. It was manufactured by Laser Computer and was commonly referred to
as a "Pal" 286. It was distributed here by Lechmere, a now defunct New
England retail store chain.
It was a fully integrated computer ... internal 42MB hard drive, floppy disk
drives (both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2-inch), internal modem with telephone jacks, a
printer port, two serial ports, mouse port and game port. List price in
1990-91 was $1,995.00, including a 13 inch "high resolution" VGA monitor.

To think ... it had 640K of conventional memory, 384K of extended memory and
a whole megabyte of RAM, expandable to 4 MB. Pretty high tech for it's
day.

Eisboch

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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 20:29:48 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Windows 3.1. Arguably the best version of Windows ever released. I used
it on one machine until it just wouldn't work anymore with the increasing
complexities of programs.

Yes indeed, I resisted changing for a loooong time. Do you remember
Firesock from Trumpet Software? You really needed that with 3.1 as I
recall.

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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 20:29:48 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"FWB" wrote in message news:op.td1imjt6d0keil@localhost...

It got down-right nasty at times. It was when I was first getting into
newsgroups, using an IBM thinkpad with Windows--gosh, it might have still
been Windows 3.1--it was around 95 or 96 or 97--I know it was before 98,
because it was before my previous employer dumped my whole department.


Windows 3.1. Arguably the best version of Windows ever released. I used
it on one machine until it just wouldn't work anymore with the increasing
complexities of programs.

Eisboch


Agreed, Windows for Workgroups, 3.1. They should never have changed it.
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