mabell

Model

• AT&T PC 6300
  

Introduced

• 1984
  

CPU

• Intel 8086, 8 MHz

RAM

• 640 KB
  

Video

• 12" Monochrome
• 640 x 200 CGA, 640 x 400 extended
  

Disk

• 20 MB harddrive
• 360 KB 5¼" floppy

Network

• Interlink via parallel port
  

Operating Systems

• MS-DOS 6.22

Features

• Monitor uses 640x400

mabell is set up identically to bozo. It runs PCTools Desktop, in which I had created databases for phone messages, to do lists, tracking what shows we'd recorded on video tape, and various other mundane purposes.

It also has a couple of baby-bash programs I had written many years ago for Donnie Darko. I've got video of him bashing away at them. One program just made different shaded boxes with a corresponding tone every time a key was pressed. It was noisy and annoying and he loved it.

The other was more for showing to visitors. Every time a key was pressed the program would display the next character in a text file. The result was when Donnie bashed the keyboard perfect English would appear on the screen as if he had just typed it in.