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John H[_8_]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:46:47 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:31:11 -0500, "Eisboch"
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If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd
have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a
lot more than I paid for my iPod.

Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to get
to the music on another card, well...

You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a
PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very
frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so the
hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have, even
though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional backup
drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really don't
need.

I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out of
space.

Eisboch

My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands on
an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I think it
was only 20megs...

Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running?

Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more than
20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your jockey
shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the marine
barracks.

Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box.

What OS did you run on this Compupro '286?

DR's CP/M-86, licensed to Compupro.

But...there was a bootleg MS OS around, too. It sorta ran an early version
of Flight Simulator. You could boot the MS OS from a floppy.

I don't remember a whole lot more. It wasn't "my" Compupro, it was an
editorial review model that I had for about six months. It was a beast.

I remember a version of Flight Simulator than ran from a floppy on the
pre-286 machines (forget the nomenclature). The "airplane" was nothing
more than a cross and there really wasn't any terrain to speak of.

BTW, the Laser Pal 286 computers I had (the first computers I had in the
company) ran on DOS 4.1 and were loaded with the GeoWorks Ensemble and
Prodigy using a 2400-baud modem.
The GeoWorks Ensemble was a Windows-like program that included a
wordprocesser, a spreadsheet and something else that I can't remember.

Processor speed was either 8 or 12 MHz (no typo), depending on the position
of a "turbo" button.
It seems that 12 MHz was too fast for some of the software of the day. It
had 640k (that's "k") of memory with an additional 384K of "extended"
memory.

Drives: 5 1/4-inch 1.2MB floppy, 3 1/2-inch 1.44MB floppy, 42MB hard

With monitor, it was just under $2000.

Eisboch
My first machine was a "day one ship" IBM PC 5150 PC1
It started with 64K ram and two 128k diskette drives.
Eventually that machine had a 256k system board in it and 384k in a
"six pack" card. I put a huge 30m Seagate ST238 in it and wondered how
I would ever use that much disk space. That was before "Microsoft" had
crossed my door step. I ran IBM PCDOS 1.0 then 2.1 for hard drive
support. That was when I got hooked on dBase.
I wrote an inventory and order system in dBase for my wife's store and
we sold the machine with the store.
I had another PX/XT and then migrated to a series of P/2s ... all
built from parts, in wood cases. That way I could hide them in the
living room ;-)
I am still running 3 woodies. Two are MP3 servers and one is the 3400
Sempron W/98 machine I just pushed back from, for this XP Pro machine.
If my "experience" doesn't improve soon I am bringing back the W/98
machine.

Harry wins. He had the oldest computer that would do the least with the
least.

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