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Not the exact one in this picture, but the same model. Mine had a 30MB RLL (way before IDE/(S)ATA) hard drive in place of the second disk drive, and was upgraded to a CGA color graphics card, from the original Hercules monochrome card. It even had a Bus Mouse (precursor to PS/2) port for my first mouse.

It came with MS-DOS 3.2 and GW-BASIC as well as Leading Edge Word Processor. Eventually, I traded up on the software front for the super-duper advanced WordPerfect 5 and Microsoft Word 5, which had one of the most confusing menu structures I’d ever seen. At one point, I even got it stumbling along with Windows 3.0, but that took a lot of 360KB floppies and ran very slowly.

Cheers to this bad boy for getting me started in the world of computers.

Edit: Ok, I guess it was a 20MiB (2^20 bytes, not 20,000,000 bytes) drive not a 30MB, and the CGA adapter was on the motherboard already, but had a switch to go between monochrome and CGA. The CGA mode had a maximum resolution of 640×200 at 1bit color.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_Edge_Model_D

Ricky Bobby:

• I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence.
• Help me, Sweet Jesus! Help me Jewish God! Help me Allah! Help me, Tom
  Cruise! Tom Cruise, use your witchcraft to get the fire off me!
• I’m Ricky Bobby, and if you don’t chew Big Red, then f**k you.
• It states in my contract that I must mention Powerade every time I say
  grace, so I think Powerade is so good, it cools you off, and we look
  forward to them coming out with Purple Mystic Mountain Blueberry, Amen

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talladega_Nights:_The_Ballad_of_Ricky_Bobby

jdanger-wordpress-web2dna-firefox, originally uploaded by willwm.

I just ran web2dna on my blog (jdanger.wordpress.com) and this is what turned up. Cool beans.

Sunny Days are here Again, originally uploaded by bono_u2au.

I love the focus on this one. …and the girl is pretty cute as well.