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Replying to Chuffed !3qyf8DDj3w

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Sweet! Ours was a frankenstein 386 (Chips and Technologies I think) that we upgraded to 486 at some point (late 80's). I remember there was a shop at the mall that sold 5 1/4 floppies in a comic book / postcard spinner rack - good times.
I was jealous of the Tandy, IBM and other prebuilts of the time, but it was an expensive time to be into computers.

Hoped to pass this hobby on to my kid - we built a lightweight AMD rig, started with an Athlon 3000G (surprisingly good punch in 2019) and have slowly upgraded the power supply, videocard, and storage. Starting to show its age but might need to eek out another year or two before we can build another.