I could never afford one of those at that time because I was busy spending all of my money on beer and records and comic books and motorcycles.
But I got me a bitchen internal 300 BAUD iso card and all the other parts I needed to build an awesome new 386DX at the computer show, when 386DXes were still cool.
I don't remember if it was 286 or 386 but my mom loved her computer because it had a new coprocesser built into the cpu. She took like a year of lesson to use the computer and she let me use it and I was past her in about 2 months of playing around and fixed it for her when something went wrong because she was afraid of using norton utilities. I ran disk doctor and disk defragmenter and she freaked out when she saw the disk doctor her friend installed for her. She goes do you know what your doing I need this for school and work. I then calmly said I read the entire help instructions and then started it. Worked faster than before it screwed up after that. Then I was on her favorite son side right then.
You know, I remember thinking that the 286 was dumb and lame and not much enough of an upgrade from the XT, but I think that it did have the math co-processor... but I'm pretty sure it was a seconday socket for a dedicated chip. In fact, I think it was like that until the 486, which had the on-board math coprocessor.
I could totally be mistaken; it's been a good few decades and a good few hundred gallons of beer and booze easy. Hey, gimme a break, I'm half Irish and half injun! Whaddya expect!?!
Maybe it was the 486, I was baked half the time I was over the house anyways getting rid of my hangover from all the beer from the night before. It was 92 when she bought it so maybe the 486 was it or it was a separate socket and she didn't realize and me a person without a computer lesson in his life sure as hell didn't realize. Heck my cousin who was good set my color on my PC to 8 color so I wouldn't watch porn. Then she told me I needed a driver, so I doing what a newb does decided to look it up. I then for some asinine reason "no idea why" decided I should write a video driver for the computer to fix it, that idea went no where once I read the driver was MB's in size. Then I found the way to change my resolution without asking and finding it using hotbot search engine because it had to be the best because of the green page
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