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Y'all remember shareware Doom on an IBM 486DX?

Welp, my back hurts!

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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they were not "veryuch in the home pc market" they released the ps/1 to "reenter" the home market. the ps/2 was older. and never had a 486dx 2. th ps/1 had one 486dc2. so yes its possible but tjis article is about ibm losing the home market and they lost it by then, since the ps/1 was them trying one last time to "reeneter" it.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...the PS/1 was widely available at general retail (including every sears in america) for three years by the time doom swept the shareware scene, including one model fitted with a 486DX and ten models with a 486DX2...

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

i looked it up. i was counting the 2168 as one model but i guess there were ten variations. but your answers dont seem real. you sound like a young person who didnt buy a pc. we didnt buy pcs from sears. are you using ai?

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

...my first PC ran a MOS 6502, loaded programs from a philips cassette, and used an acoustic coupler modem...

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

are you using ai?

Maybe you should, your grammar is awful. Are you using your face to type?