Awesome article. Brings back some memories.
My first PC that I got from my father (when he upgraded to a 386) was a 086 with a hercules monochrome screen. I can't remember the exact size of the hdd, but it was either 10mb or 20mb and it only had a floppy drive. I used that PC to finish the first Monkey Island game while my friend was playing it on his 486 with a VGA monitor. I was so freaking jealous that he had all those colours and I only had yellow.
