Heathkit H-8 that I had to solder all the parts on the circuit boards. Machine language programming back then with cassette recorder to save the programs. This was before the Radio Shack TRS-80 and IBM PC. 4K of memory and you were king on the streets.
That gave way to a Heathkit H-19 Monitor that in time was upgraded to a H-89 computer. It had 2 hard sector hard 5 1/4 floppy drives that you could notch the disks and flip them over for more storage. Then came came soft sector drives and 8" drives. At one time I had 6 floppy drives attached to that computer. Hard drives were not even a dream for the PC market at that time.
The H-89 gave way to the original Compaq lug-able. I still have that one.
Along the way I built an Apple IIE clone for something to do but got rid of it shortly after getting everything working.
Lost track of how many PC's I have built and upgraded over the years. Don't even ask how much money was spent over the years.
Currently have online an old 800 MHz XP machine with a couple of 250 gig hard drives and DVD burners, a 2.6 Windows 7 machine, an HP Windows 7 lap top, and an HP Windows Home Server with 2.5 TB of storage.
Remember when a program could be no larger that 640k?
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