2026-05-12 01:05 UTC
@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org
It would have been pretty rough to put an 8514 in it since you only have three slots and for AutoCAD might need a RAM card for more than 6MB.
Mine's the lowest spec though at 16MHz, but it's still pretty snappy with ACAD once I figured out how to setup the RAM for it!
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@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-12 01:18
@TechTangents@dialup.space we used to sell high-end clones with multiple high-end video cards jammed in them, and pucks and Ethernet and mouses and tablets. All with... DOS drivers. DOS. We did incredible shit with QEMM386 to stuff all the drivers up into high RAM, otherwise we'd have maybe 150K in which to run the software! If we were on our game we could actually have 633K available after all the LOADHIGHs finished. Don't ask me to do that shit again. It was 35 years ago. I forgetted. Deliberately.