I remember my first PC (rather than my first computer) which was a Zenith 8086 back in 1988, running just DOS with 2 5.25 floppy disks and a mono monitor. god alone knows what I actually used it for! I remember upgrading the memory from 128K to 256K by actually buying and inserting the memory chips, in the dil package 2 lines of pins on a black rectangular chip, into the sockets on the motherboard.
<br><br>at the time at work we had just gotten a fileserver with 640K of memory and 20 megabytes of hard disk space. A size which I can bearly comprehend these days. btw we had none of this girly ethernet, we used token ring. I can also remember using computers with 8 inch floppy disks, as well as cards and punched tape. I could actually read punched paper tape at one point - how sad is that!
<br><br>Gary, who is older than he likes to remember<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Ritter</b> <<a href="mailto:dsr-myth@tao.merseine.nu">dsr-myth@tao.merseine.nu</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:16:57PM -0500, Tom Lichti wrote:<br>> >>> Now, what CPU were you running. I seem to recall upgrading from a 486
<br>> >>> to a Pentium-I in 1993 (and getting one of the originals with the<br><br>> >> Most likely a Cyrix 486 class proc. Couldn't afford a Pentium. :) I<br><br>> > Luxury! My first Linux box was a 25-MHz 386SX with 4 MB of RAM, a 120-MB hard
<br>> > drive, and a 256K VGA card driving a monochrome monitor. I think I might still<br><br>> VGA? VGA? Pure luxury. Try an overclocked 16MHz (from 12MHz) 286, 256kb<br>> RAM, single 5 1/4" drive, with a monochrome TTL display. That was my
<br>> first PC...my first computer was a VIC-20, aside from the Commodore PET<br><br>You kids wouldn't know hardship if it were forced on you. My<br>first PC was a Turbo 8086 that could run at almost 8 MHz with<br>
128KB of RAM. But the first computer I used had a keypunch for<br>making cards. Lots of storage, but measured in roomfuls of<br>boxes...<br><br>-dsr-<br><br>--<br>_.. ___ . ... _ .... . _. ... ._ ._. . ._ _.. _.__ ___ .._ ._.
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