First post, by bristlehog
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- Oldbie
I am considering a purchase: a 12 mhz 286, 1 Mb RAM, 40 Mb HDD in a slim proprietary case, that has built-in video out (15-pin), COM and LPT ports and seemingly allows installation of 2 ISA cards.
Though I were introduced to the world of computers already at Pentium epoch, I can't imagine what percentage of games can be run at that hardware. When I was younger, my father took me sometimes to school computer room full of IBM PS/2. IIRC they were some kind of 286 and I was able to play Prince of Persia, Golden Axe and few other games I can't even recall. But that's only few, what about others?
The question is: I can buy that 286 cheap (like, $25), but won't I end up encountering that nearly nothing can be played at such hardware? And due to proprietary case I don't think it can be upgraded.