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My family's first computer was a Tandy 386 sx/33 with a screaming 4mb of ram and an 80mb hd.

The system's inability to play doom was the downfall of my childhood, lol, but I got to play Zork and Enchanter and a bunch of other infocom games as well as having my first forays into cyberspace thanks to a $1 600 baud flea market modem.

Uber elite hacker mode engaged calling my local bbs at 2 in the morning after everyone was asleep style playing Usurper and Legend of the Red Dragon while reading bootleg and highly questionable copies of the anarchists cookbook were some of the highlights of my pre-highschool life.




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