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Memories, eh.. I joined the PC bandwagon in 1989 with 386sx machine made by Osborne. Exact model was MiStation16, it was pizza box -styled and came with whopping 40Mb hard disk. 16 MHz and 4Mb of ram were amazing improvement against my (still trustworthy) C64. It had 3,5" floppy drive, which accepted both 720kb and 1,44Mb disks. Later on, my storage capacities upgraded due bearing failure up to 80Mb. There was also a program called 2Format, which allowed to store 2Mb of data to a single 3,5" floppy. That was great!

I did my first complete system install was MS-Dos 6.22 + Win 3.11 at age of seven after I messed thigs up with DoubleSpace. Boy, my father was angry because of that and equally surprised when I fixed it all by myself. 4Dos rocked my world of MS-Dos and I've missed it since Win95 came along. Until recently, of course: Linux fixed my aching.

Cool games from that era were (but not limited to): Commander Keen series, Wolfenstein 3D, Street Rod 1&2, Ducktales, One Must Fall 2047 and F1 GP. I also recall lots of Autodesk Animator & Triton FastTracker usage.

BBS:es surely were the thing and we ran our own BBS with my friend too. Our bbs was replicated on two different machines and depending from my or my friend's parents, we switched the location of our 9600 baud modem between our houses.

I blame my current level of geekism to that 386 and my father. Thank you both. Since our next computer was 1st gen Pentium, I had to learn to code and entertain myself with an aging system. Ultimate consequence of that is my current job coding with Delphi and C.
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