<I recall assisting a buddy of mine with a game he was trying to build on his new Tandy while stationed at Fort Davis, Panama, back in 1983. Hooked up to a little Sony Trinatron, the game was called Escape From Oz, complete with little Toto running ahead of Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road. You had 5 Totos, with replacement capability depending upon points. I don?t think he ever got it beyond Alpha Test.

Dan you prompte me to visit the computer graveyard in this house. . . wel lone of them. . .we got three 1. my closet, 2 sides attic, 3 garrage.

snooping through the side attic reveald a Tandy 1000 tx (I think we have two of them), while in the garage I have two IBM XTs, well, whats left of them. Those were GOOD cases, I am 'guessing' they came with either an 8086 or 8088, because I have one of those in my closet and it fits in the IBM xt cases, but both of my 486 mother boards fit in there as does a pentium motherboard I have.

Toto was a minesweeper.
(What d?ya want? We were Infantry!)

Hillarious Dan! what better use for a floor mop like Toto?

It wouldn?t be until ?88 that I would finally get my first PC. A nifty little Commodore.

I remember my first PC, it was a Laser PAL286. not only do I still have the motherboard tucked away inte closet, BUT the origional box is still out in my garage, in near perfect condition holding clothes. still got the price tag on it!!!

$1599.95, bought from Sears
RAM: 1 mb
HardDrive: 40 mb
CPU: 12 mhz 286*
Modem Baud: 2400
Monitor: VGA**
Date: 1990

*had a turbo button that would get you a rockin 16 mhz
**monitor worked excellent until two years ago when it got to fuzzy for my dad to read. no idea what happened to it.

what a computer. . .I still remember playing ancient art of war on that thing. . . nine years later? I was holding similar computer in my hand in school, a Texas Instrumetns 82 (TI82) graphic calculaor, and I was programming Ancient Art of War on it in basic when I was supposed to be listening in class.

-Justin Kelly