23 Apr
2003
23 Apr
'03
3:04 a.m.
Reminds me of sellers showing doom2 on a 486/133 at the computer shows
trying to get rid of them before people realised that the pentium was soooo
much faster.
I still have a 386/40 for playing the older games. So far I havnt run into
anything that I need a 286 or earlier to play it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: 286 Computers
--- Bryan Pope <bpope(a)wordstock.com> wrote:
Fleamarkets,
And thusly Vintage Computer Festival spake:
When people were still attempting to sell 286s at Hamfests and
On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, TeoZ wrote:
*But* you can play Castle Wolfenstein 3D on them! ;) I dont think many of the 286 computers will ever
be collectable...
Or because they are just plain boring and uninteresting.
you could tell the 286s because *that* was running on
them as a crowd
attractor.
It also showed off the dogs... all it took was one 386-25 across the
aisle and nobody paid any attention to the 286s.
-ethan
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