Comment by kriro

4 months ago

My entry was the mentioned 486DX2-66Mhz. Double speed CD-Rom and Sound Blaster. Norton Commander was great, Doom and Pirates Gold where my games of choice.

Also started programming on this one with QBasic and then moved to Turbo Pascal 7 (because I needed a .exe file to be called from autoexec as a password protection vs. my sister which I couldn't do with QBasic :)

Didn't take me long to destroy everything by trying to install some old SUSE-Linux from a floppy disk :D

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kriro

yazantapuz 4 months ago

> Didn't take me long to destroy everything by trying to install some old SUSE-Linux from a floppy disk :D

With a friend we destroyed the msdos 622 installation on the new 40 mb hd of my family 386 when deleting tmp files...

samplatt 4 months ago

That's a pretty familiar configuration... it wasn't a COMPAQ was it?

The double-speed CDROM in mine was a SCSI. The SoundBlaster 16 card was also the SCSI controller card. Fucking weird piece of hardware. Many years later I found another one that ALSO had a 16kbit modem on it, in addition to being a sound card and SCSI controller O_O

Also, your quest of creating .exe's was cleaner than mine. I scoured the non-internet that was available to my rural country town for QuickBASIC, which had a couple of of syntax differences to QBASIC but it COULD compile .exe's!