I remember when we first had 'Broadband' - a whole 512 MBs - seemed super after a 56K dial-up modem (And I can still do a 1KHz whistle to test the modem).
I remember when we first had 'Broadband' - a whole 512 MBs - seemed super after a 56K dial-up modem (And I can still do a 1KHz whistle to test the modem).
My coolest friend had two phone lines and a pair of Diamond 56k (internal) modems that could be bonded, yielding 112k (theoretically). Definitely the fastest dial-up I ever saw.
He also had a Bernoulli drive (anyone remember those?) which offered removable storage in 5-1/4" cartridges, 20MB per IIRC.
No, it was before that. Win 3.1 with 4 MB of RAM.
My PC had 640K running DOS 2.11 with dual 5-1/4 floppy drives. I loaded DOS into a RAM drive so I could use one floppy to run apps and the second for data…360kb of it.
And here I thought many others had started with a box the size of an end table with real-to-real storage using 16 meg ram to keep enough info handy to make the computer useful. Guess that was too early or much for some. At least I didn't have to use vacuum tubes. My first desk top was an Apple. Before Microsuck started.
Hmmm. I bought my first PC in 86 and added at memory card (that I had to populate with a bunch of chips) to get to 640K. There was nothing on the MB back then.
What were you installing 8MB into a decade before that?
Hmmm. I bought my first PC in 86 and added at memory card (that I had to populate with a bunch of chips) to get to 640K. There was nothing on the MB back then.
What were you installing 8MB into a decade before that?
Most decent machines then did very will with 512K , I had added a new (data) ribbon and multiple boards to get 8 megs. I pulled 2 megs per board. The trouble came with trying to get the system {a version Pro-DOS} to recognize and use more than 1 meg at a time. I had a friend that enjoyed coding, I enjoyed playing with the hardware.
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