First post, by Tr3vor42532
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Yeah, I spent too much money on an old computer, not gonna lie. I've wanted an AT since I got into old PCs, and now I have a new old stock computer. I am the original owner of a PC that's older than me.
Two big boxes, one for the system unit and the other for the documentation/keyboard
I didn't get a picture of the boxes before I opened them, but they were sealed with the original tape, although after 29 years of deterioration, I can't say that the word "sealed" is an accurate one.
And there it is, my new old computer, pristine.
This is the 339 model, so 512k of ram, 30mb hard drive. They don't build PCs like this anymore, the thing weighs 43 lbs.
Good ol bodge wires
When I turned it on, it took a few tries for the FDD to read a disk, but when it did, ran the setup and it booted to cassette basic without any errors. I didn't have a CGA card or monitor, so I just threw a cruddy trident VGA card in there for now.
After giving the disk a LLF with speedstor, I installed MS-DOS 3.3 on it. I probably should have just installed PC-DOS 3.3 instead for the BASIC and BASICA programs, but thats too much effort now that I got ms dos on there. Good thing is that I could just transfer those programs and they work without a hitch, so whatever.
After that, I installed a network adapter and mTCP so that I could transfer some games and programs onto the machine. I also installed AT-SLOW for running games for the PC/XT. This machine definitely intimidates my poor 486 over there, its just so big.
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