Today, I felt nostalgic about my 80286 which I had used in the 90’s to learn C, GW Basic and play games like digger, prince of persia 1. It was one of the “fastest” processors available at that time. It had an Intel 16Mhz 80286 Processor, 1 MB ram, 5.25 Inch Teac Floppy drive, 40 Mb Seagate Harddisc and a 80287 Math co-processor. It was a “decent” machine at that time.

I used it for hours to play prince of persia 1 where you play the role of a prince to rescue a princess from the evil vizier. There were limited number of packages which could run on that machine. Turbo C 2.0 from borland and Dbase 3 plus were some softwares I had used.

What are your experiences with antique machines such as the 8086, 8088 or 80286, if you had used any?


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