[aklug] Re: CPU/RAM on older hardware

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Tue Sep 07 2010 - 10:04:57 AKDT

On Saturday 04 September 2010, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
> 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?
>
> 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.

Wasn't mine (I was eight at the time), but it was:

8086 (4.something MHz?), 640K RAM, EGA, 20MB hard drive.

Second computer:

286 10MHz, 640K (later upgraded to 2MB), 40MB HD (split in to two 20MB
partitions), with 256K VGA graphics (I think).

j

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