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			<title><![CDATA[What was your first computer?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[My entry into a computer at home started out with a 90Mhz Packard Bell desktop system, running Windows 3.11 with 8MB of RAM and a 545MB drive. When we purchased the computer, it came with another 8MB RAM and the Windows 95 upgrade disk which we eventually installed but not right away. <br />
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That got me hooked on computers, which lead to frankensteining many other systems together, usually using much older hardware. It was in that way I got exposure to some older stuff, 286, 386, and 486's, DOS only, 5.25" floppies, and all that fun stuff.]]></description>
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<br />
That got me hooked on computers, which lead to frankensteining many other systems together, usually using much older hardware. It was in that way I got exposure to some older stuff, 286, 386, and 486's, DOS only, 5.25" floppies, and all that fun stuff.]]></content:encoded>
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