|15Sam Alexander |07said this..
 
>Your story reminds me so much of my first DOS-based PC, which I got around 
>1990 after using my Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2 then 3 for a few few 
>years.  I think I spent about $700 for that thing, amber monitor, one 360K 
>5.25" floppy, and MS-DOS 3.3.  ANyone remember Edlin?  hehe But yeah, I
>thought the same after spending that kinda money and all I got was a
>blinking cursor.  After ordering my 2400 baud modem, which came with COMit,
>I was online and downloading the software I needed.  I had been using BBSes
>for a short time on my Trash-80 system, but the BBSes looked so much better
>on the DOS box.

My first PC was an XT with dos 3.3 and EGA graphic (!). Costed about 10k$.
And yes I remember the atrociousness of Edlin. I also remember PCAccess which
was a way to make people lazy about learning CLI. Eventually got a 720k floppy
drive, which needed it's own drivers.

Didn't do any BBS until I got a 486 though with a modem.

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