[GH85Carrera]

Yea, my first PC was a real powerhouse, 8088 CPU running at 4.47 MHz with 256K of RAM, and a no hard drive, just a twin floppy 5.25 inch standard density floppy. I souped it up to the full 640K and added a 10MB hard drive. It ran DOS 2.1.

I was up to DOS 3.3 by the time I got my first 386 with a 60 MB hard drive. I still have the copy of Windows 386 and my original Microsoft mouse that says Pat. Pending.

The 486 was a big upgrade and next was a Pentium CPU. I remember reading the magazines and the worry was when a CPU gets up to 500 MHz it might interfere with TV reception.

At work my first computer was a 6 MHz IBM PC AT running DOS 3.3 on 32 MB hard drive in about 1986. It had Extended memory and 2 entire MB of RAM, and a main monitor that was black background with amber text, and a second monitor that could display 16 million colors. It cost 34 grand with the film recorder. It ran one program from Zenographics that would let us design color 35mm slides with full 16 million color and 4K resolution. We charged from 18 to 60 bucks per 35 mm slide, depending on the complexity of the slide. The customers brought us the hand written text, and I made them into slides.

I vividly remember doing a doctors slide show on pertinacious discectomy, and how he had developed a procedure to revolutionize spine surgery. It was 40 slides, and he paid almost 2,000 bucks for me to make it. I of course made only my regular salary. At least I was out of the dark room.