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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 05:57 PM
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23. 68030 cpu, sweet.
By then I was already in x86 world, and couldn't afford the 16 and 32 bit Ataris. My IBM clone had cost me $170 to build from scratch and scraps which was a really inexpensive computer for the time.

But IBM made the computer world a much uglier place when they decided to use an 8088 microprocessor in a hideous architecture running Microsoft code. Even with their quirks and imperfections, the Ataris, Amigas, and Apples were much prettier machines.
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