Okay - so the next person to post to this thread needs to have a
story about core memory as to out-do the 8" floppy and tape:^). I'm a
bit young to pull that one off.
-Alan
On Jul 18, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Michael Neverdosky wrote:
> Hard drive????
>
> Try tape drive only, then moving up to floppy drive of 100K, then to
> 200K floppy.
> For a long time I wanted a pair of 8" floppy drives.
>
> The first hard drive available for home use was 5MB and cost about
> $5000.
> I didn't get one of those until many years later when they were a give
> away item.
>
> I spent many years using Osborne or Kaypro CPM systems with 64K ram
> and floppy drives only.
>
> I find it interesting that a major portion of the added power of
> modern computers is spent on eye candy.
>
> Just part of the fun.
>
> michael
>
> On 7/18/07, Alan C. <r.andom@noshut.com> wrote:
>> Break out the "Back in the day my first hard drive was 18 megabytes,
>> MFM and cost $900" stories...
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>> On Jul 18, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Rick wrote:
>>
>>> Your dating yourself dude! Wasn't that back when dinosaurs flew?
>>>
>>> Rick
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