[aklug] Re: CPU/RAM on older hardware

On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 14:56 -0800, Christopher Howard wrote:
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> Hey, those of you (really old people) who had PCs back in the MS-DOS
> days: what were the CPU speed, RAM, and hard drive size of your PC?
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> When I was real young, I remember my uncle used to play Monkey Island on
> a machine with 80M hard drive space, but I can't remember the other specs.
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> Christopher Howard
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> theologia.indicium.us
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My first ms-dos machine was a Compaq Deskpro 8086 8 MHz w/ 10MB RLL
drive and 5.25 in floppy. I don't remember the RAM now. I do remember
paying $995 to upgrade it with a 40 MB hard drive.

Jim G

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Received on Sat Sep 4 23:50:41 2010