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asimeqi • yesterday at 4:41 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

That was my exact first computer with the CGA graphics, GEM Desktop, Locomotive Basic etc. All the software came in 4 360KB diskettes. The diskettes had each it's own beautiful color. There were 3 sample Basic programs that seemed to me quite advanced. One sample was a document management system. Another was a drawing program where you could draw with a mouse. Didn't know that GEM Desktop was made by Digital Reasearch. It was a very good windowing system. I believe it was based on MS-DOS. There was also a CP/M OS. So much software in only 1.2MB.


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pjmlp • yesterday at 5:18 PM

Exactly, thanks for sharing.

sedatk • yesterday at 6:06 PM

I dearly remember the keyboard's warm red Caps Lock light and my sessions of running Print Master and writing BASIC programs on it.