On 01/30/2012 05:48 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com <mailto:mike...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info <mailto:pa...@poluan.info>> wrote: > > > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop horizontal > > all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a front-panel (7-segment > > LED) display between "4.77" and "8.00" > > > > And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")... > > > > And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... > > > > As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... > > PC, XT or AT? > > Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz 386.. > Not sure... It was a no-name clone... I think it's 8086...
The first machine to ever make me go "ooh, shiny" was an Amiga 500 back when it came out. Shiniest thing I ever saw ;-)
