-=> Ed Vance wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 KW> This was 1991, and the old boxes I managed ran MS-DOS 3.2, I
 KW> believe.

 EV> You'll have to forgive me, I thought you have been fooling around with
 EV> PC Clone computers from about day one when IBM released the PC XT.

To clarify, my experience wiH EDLIN was with work computers where I needed
to edit files on someone else's system to update them. My first home
computer was an XT clone in 1986. I forget what DOS that was running, but
it was whatever version was the first to support hard disks.

 EV> When I was at work and the boss put his 'old' Zenith 286 in our
 EV> building and retired the XT Clone we had been using, I thought
 EV> since it had a faster CPU clock speed and it was a Zenith that I'd
 EV> like it better, but I didn't.


My first mind-blowing PC experience was seeing CAD rendering on a Compaq
286 with an 80287 math co-processor. I tried the same on my XT and it took
a minute and a half. 10 seconds on the 286/287 combo.






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