Posted on 12/23/2008 6:05:02 AM PST by Red Badger
I had one of those!!!! Won it as a freebie gift from a time share...............
I had (still have, actually) one of those!
And with the massive 16K memory add-on. I used electrical tape to try to stabilize it, but sometimes it would still jiggle and freeze the computer.
I wrote some good programs on that thing.
Yup. Reloaded a DEC 8810 from floppy once. Took forever.
I now carry more memory in my pocket every day than we had in our entire datacenter back in the day.
“Had a good laugh as we were selling 64k ram business systems for $6,000.”
I had one of those, a North Star Z80, as a house controller. It ran until December of 2006, when I left the liberal north east. I found after shutting the boxes down that I had hidden any humidity problems in my basement for decades. The heat they generated always kept any dampness from coming in.
I still use Borland Quattro Pro for a spread sheet. It does work on XP.
Routinely.
But I suspect we're not talking about the same thing.
We now know that anyone left on this thread is a solid, super-duper, senior.
If I'm not mistaken, you're off by a factor of 4. I believe that the base model came with 64K of RAM and, as I recall, a cassette tape interface. If there was no tape drive connected, the system would boot into a ROM BASIC interpreter. The 360Kbyte 5 1/4-inch floppy drive was an extra-cost option.
I opted for the massive 10 meg hard drive rather than the then-current 5 meg version for only an additional $250 or so over the $250 5 meg model.
8 inch floppy
256K, 512K, and ONE MEG.
SDSS, DDSS, DDDS
Hard-sectored or soft-sectored? :=)
And yes, I've used both.
CP/m?...........
Around that time I was working for a company that manufactured 40Mb (Not Gb) hard disk drive units that were the size of a kitchen dishwasher. The 12” disk platters were removable; they were in a caddy that fit on top of the unit.
You bet your BDOS. :=) But not on the PC.
UYK-7 USN Computer then we went to DDFM.
Imagine if IBM had went with CP/M instead of MS-DOS, where would we be today?............
and the AN/UYK 20
I loved Lotus123. Excel just isn’t as much fun.
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