The Pea Seas

My first very own computer was an IBM XT clone with a 10MHz AMD 8088 clone, 640K RAM, and 20 whole megabytes of disk! It got me through school as a word processor and intelligent terminal. I put Minix 1.5 on it and discovered the true potential of this little design. Let's just say that once I discovered what a computer could do I quickly outgrew the architecture. I'd still have it hooked up but I haven't bothered to get the updates for TCP/IP and ethernet. Dunno what in the world I'd use it for...maybe a gateway. I'd sell it if I could, but no one would want it without its video subsystem -- I moved it to the '486 for a dual-headed system.

I bought a 33MHz '486 for my graphics and compiler classes my last semester of school. Turns out this was a pretty good idea as it ran rings around their Sun SS1s on a really overloaded network. I run Linux on it exclusively for software development and odd kernel hacking. It had MS-DOS 5.0 for a while to run Falcon 3.0, but that was years ago.

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