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Of all the things I saw at VCF Midwest, this immediately caught my eye. Many of you might know this is my grail, my first real computer. Sadly this one wasn't for sale, but it was awesome to even see one in person again. So many memories associated with it. Terrific!

17/9/26, 2:16 am1 repost57 likes

Richard Troupe

@richardtroupe.bsky.social

17 Sept

I have fond memories of using one of these at my friend's house. I've been wanting one ever since but they rarely pop up for sale.

Maggie Stardust

@magdalenastardust.bsky.social

17 Sept

I used to work at Staples in the 90’s and we sold a ton of those

Pete Shay

@peteshay.bsky.social

17 Sept

I seem to recall that they had an unusual partition layout on the hdd, such that you couldn't just swap in a non-Compaq hdd and expect it to boot. Fuzzy memories, but we had to use a Compaq to configure the drives. Drives for our beige boxes were easily built and deployed. Old DOS 5 days.

squelch41.bsky.social

@squelch41.bsky.social

17 Sept

I remember seeing adverts for them, I think on TV in the UK. We had an amiga at the time and I really wanted one (as a kid, didn't quite appreciate how expensive they were 😂)