Comments on: AST Computers and AST Research https://dfarq.homeip.net/ast-research-computers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ast-research-computers David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:42:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: neo https://dfarq.homeip.net/ast-research-computers/#comment-57441 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:42:35 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=24181#comment-57441 I remember the Samsung Sensor, being sold a 386SX with VGA graphics back around 1992. both Samsung and Hyundai sold 286 PC’s AT’s back in the day. I also remember seeing the Tandy 3000NL 286 at Radio Shack.

I even remember the Tandy 5000MC with microchannel at Radio Shack but of course priced way out of my family budget.

]]> By: Brian Watson https://dfarq.homeip.net/ast-research-computers/#comment-56022 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:55:11 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=24181#comment-56022 My wife bought me my first computer in 1994 and it was an AST Advantage 486sx33 desktop. I still have it. Id wanted a computer for years and that Saturday she woke me up and said lets go look at computers. For some reason I picked Circuit City. Right as we walked in they had a big sale going on computers there at the front. I was looking at 386 ones at the time but saw this store demo model AST 486 there and it was only $850. Thats when she really surprised me and said “Lets get it!” She had secretly gotten a credit card just to buy me a computer. Bless her. Finding a better pc cheaper than thought cinched it. Grabbed a Packard Bell 14″ SVGA .28mm dot pitch monitor to go with it. The rest is PC gaming history. Im still just as big a hard core gamer today as I was in 94 at 25 years old. My sweet little darling wife passed away in 2019 and I miss her dearly each day. She got me started in this stuff and I thank her.

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