First post, by senrew
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So, I got the bright idea to try and recapture the days of pre-internet home computer use and have decided to do the following:
What I want, is a representative system from several eras of DOS machines, 286, 386, 486 specifically. I'd like it to be the most middle of the road system that a typical home user would have typically bought back then.
My experiment is to try and use age and system appropriate software for day to day use and see if I can get by with each of those for everyday non-internet type tasks. I've got newer systems to play with for the transitional years where the internet was becoming a household thing. For me, that was about 95 when we first got AOL on my Packard Bell P75 just after upgrading to 95 from 3.11.
So, can anyone suggest system specs or specific models that would represent the above? I'm considering adding in an XT clone of some sort as well, so if anyone can suggest a good clone configuration for that, I'd appreciate it.