My first real Internet machine was a 386/25, no 387 as it was an SX model CPU.
Windows 3.11
Winsock Extensions
14.4 modem
Number Nine VGA (wish I had kept that! It could do tricks with EGA, TV and such) running a 1024x768 interlaced display. Yes, turn the contrast down, and life was pretty good.
And get this:
5, count em, 12345 Megabytes of RAM!
1 on mainboard, 4 in some slot or other.
Now, 5 gave one the advantage of being able to run some programs that required 8 megabytes They would run terribly, if they ran at all, because disk thrashing, but running was better than not, so yay!
And I would run my copy of Netscape and off to the races we go!
My first real Internet machine was a 386/25, no 387 as it was an SX model CPU.
Windows 3.11
Winsock Extensions
14.4 modem
Number Nine VGA (wish I had kept that! It could do tricks with EGA, TV and such) running a 1024x768 interlaced display. Yes, turn the contrast down, and life was pretty good.
And get this:
5, count em, 12345 Megabytes of RAM!
1 on mainboard, 4 in some slot or other.
Now, 5 gave one the advantage of being able to run some programs that required 8 megabytes They would run terribly, if they ran at all, because disk thrashing, but running was better than not, so yay!
And I would run my copy of Netscape and off to the races we go!