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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • 8088, 10Mhz. But if I pushed the button it would slow down to 8Mhz. That made Red Baron easier to control.

    640kb RAM. Because nobody should ever need more than that.

    2x 360kb floppy drives (5 1/4"). Eventually upgraded with a 40 Mb hard drive. The salesman said that was so big we’d never fill it up.

    CGA graphics. I eventually upgraded this to a used ATI Wonder EGA card. That let me use my RGB monitor in interlaced 640x350 graphics mode. The flickering just proved I wasn’t epileptic.

    MS-DOS 3.3. It also had a board called Trackstar, that was an Apple IIe. I was taking classes at school at the time, and the school used Apple.