[mythtv-users] OT: Old computer reminiscence thread

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:20:55PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > -- jr 'TRS-80 Hard Disk Drive: 5MB, $2000' 
> 
> See:
> 
> http://mail3.beww.org/links/cromemco0025.jpg

ZOMG.

I have a client with one of those old 18" square HD cases; I want to
see how many 1TB IDE's I can fit in it, and put it underneath a desktop
case...

> Just think of it: 5.6 Mbits/second transfer rate (that's "bits", not
> "bytes"). A massive 11 megabytes of storage (unformatted).
> 
> We used to run Xenix on these machines, sure seemed fast at the time :-)

I had a client with a T6000 with *three* 3-user cards in it.  12 users.
2MB RAM.  Xenix was *really* efficient...

He later had a PC's Limited (remember them?) 386-16 with 6MB of
*static* ram.  Doubled that thing's speed by turning refresh off.

Cheers,
-- jra
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