Reply 60 of 79, by VileR
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in 1990 the "family computer" was a "turbo" XT clone which we'd had since '87 or so. Pretty generic, I was 10 then and didn't know much about hardware, but I remember the case label had "MINTA" on it (or was it the monitor?):
- 8088 @ 4.77 MHz, or 7.16 MHz (I think) with Turbo on
- 640KB RAM
- dual-mode CGA/MDA card (had to run this .COM file to switch modes)
- monochrome green monitor
- 2x 5.25" 360KB floppy drives
- 20 MB HDD (newly-added)
- 1200 bps modem (same)
- glorious pure PC Speaker-only sound
- some kind of multi-I/O card, at least the realtime clock was on it(!)
- MS-DOS 3.2
I think it was the same year that my dad upgraded it with an EGA card (Paradise?) and monitor.
A couple of years later the whole setup was trashed in favor of a 386-DX/33 with a SB16, CD-ROM, Trident SVGA, the works...