80386DX ISA single board microcomputer
Although this seems to be a 33MHz CPU, the 386DX40 was the first &quot;decent&quot; processor I had access to when growing up so was quite memorable for me.<p>In my teenage years the PCs my brothers and I had access to were two 386DX40s each with 8MB of RAM and several hundred MBs of hard disk space (can&#x27;t remember exactly, but pretty sure less than a GB).<p>We really loved Blizzard&#x27;s Warcraft II, which despite having a minimum requirement of 486 CPU, was able to run on the 386DX40s, albeit a bit slower than intended.<p>Since we had two PCs we wanted to play together, but only had a parallel cable. I don&#x27;t know why it was so hard for us to get hold of a serial cable, but the point is we only had the parallel one and Warcraft II would only be able to run over serial cables, not parallel ones.<p>I eventually worked out a way though. The 386DX40s were actually also capable of running Windows 95 which had a feature where you could &quot;network&quot; two PCs over a parallel cable. I then ran IPX&#x2F;SPX over that network which allowed us to play Warcraft II over it.<p>The gameplay was pretty slow, but as I recall it was very reliable and we played quite a bit on this setup. Eventually we got a couple of BNC network cards and cables for a much more conventional setup.