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Old 4th Aug 2008, 22:29
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No - it was a Japaneese copy of an IBM PCXT with an 8086 and 640 kB of RAM which I acquired in Riyadh. It served me for many years, is still in the loft, but I haven't switched it on for ages!

I seem to remember that in those days, the test of a good VGA card was to see how it coped with Microsoft's FS2. Mine did a good job, but on trying Mr. Sugar's creation in the local Dixons, the most dreadful maroons and purples was all it could manage. Of course, that bit of software existed on a 350kB 5.25" floppy.

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