![]() ![]() But it felt great putting it together and flipping the switch to see it work. I think the graphics adapter was a Hercules (I know I had one at some point, at least a monochrome one). I sat there for a long time tinkering with stuff, messing with ribbon cables and connector and controller boards, figuring out what I needed to use. I got a monitor out of this as well (color!). At this point I had no idea what I was doing, they were just puzzle pieces to work with, and I don't think they all worked as stand alone units I remember having to cannibalize different machines for parts to make one working PC. They let me pick what I wanted from the junk pile so I took home 3 beastly behemoths ( I love me some XT/AT cases), they were all 286 machines. My school had got a bunch of computers donated or something like that and they had some crappy ones left over I guess (we had much better stuff like 486 and Pentium class machines, and a couple Apple ][ computers with some games). It's somewhat of a blur, but I built my first x86 PC in the mid-nineties when I was about 12 or 13 years old. ![]()
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