My dad bought a refurbished Xerox 8088 around 1986 or 1987; that was a sweet machine; 640k of memory, a 5mb hard drive (upgraded to 20, a huge amount then!), and a daisywheel printer. Everything my mom needed to write her PhD thesis. Whereas my parents had little interest in it other than WordPerfect 5.0 (I still have, and love, that program), I enjoyed playing around in DOS (cd dos; cd \ "Cool!"), basically doing all the hacking a six or seven year old could do. I think there was GWBASIC somewhere on there, but thankfully I never touched that.
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My dad bought a refurbished Xerox 8088 around
1986 or 1987; that was a sweet machine; 640k of
memory, a 5mb hard drive (upgraded to 20, a huge
amount then!), and a daisywheel printer. Everything
my mom needed to write her PhD thesis. Whereas my
parents had little interest in it other than WordPerfect 5.0 (I still have, and love, that program), I enjoyed playing around in DOS (cd dos; cd \ "Cool!"), basically doing all the
hacking a six or seven year old could do. I think there was GWBASIC somewhere
on there, but thankfully I never touched that.