wierd_w wrote on Yesterday, 10:21:

The first REAL computer I used was an AST Advantage 486, with an integrated Cirrus Logic video chipset, a sound-galaxy-washington, and 4mb of RAM. I have some fond memories from that period.

Oh ASTs... I had an AST 486 with a Cyrix 486, an integrated Cirrus Logic video chipset, a real ISA SB 16, 4MB of RAM (later upgraded to 8 and then 20), 420 megs of HDD (effectively unupgradeable, thank you AST...) and... let's just say my memories of that thing have gotten less fond with time...

Storage was 'solvable' with EZ-Drive, which came bundled with consumer drives back then.

Not in an 'ideal' manner, but still 'solved'.

The real issues were the slow/not installed cache, and the slow cirrus chipset. Win9x was 'possible', but not ... enjoyable.

It was just fine for *era appropriate* (so, NO on quake and pals! Duh!) DOS games.

I played the SHIT out of Tie Fighter on that thing.