So you went out and bought a Bernoulli Box with REMOVABLE 20MB cartridges!
Who would need anything more?
Posted on 02/11/2021 6:29:45 AM PST by daniel1212
An interesting question would be “what computer were you using when you first used Freerepublic.com?”
That was a looooooong time ago.
REAL PROGRAMMERS don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
— Unknown
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
— Wernher von Braun
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
— Dick Brandon
There are 10 types of people. Those that understand binary and those that do not.
— Ray Roton
more at:
http://www.thecorememory.com/html/selected_quotes.html
Hold on for OS/2 Warp!
Those were the days.
I ‘leapfrogged’ my dad & brother in 87 with the futuristic 12mhz machine and a 20meg HD...no more floppies for this kid!
Upgraded every 18 months until 1999....prepped a ‘Y2K’ machine that lasted for years after.
Computers are boring now...
3.5 and 5.25 in drives? I’ve got you beat. I used 8-inch floppies, in 1986, on a military communications computer.
I still have one with the original monochrome monitor sitting on a shelf in my garage. I thought that someday it may be worth something. Anyone have any idea about it’s worth?
But if it wasn't you could get an expanded memory board. Picked up an Intel Above-Board with 512K one time, then spent hour after hour tweaking extended memory settings in DOS.
Adjusted for inflation...
$1,695 (1989) = $3,600 (2020)
Dude, $3500 will buy a crapload of computing power today. I spent considerably less on the desktop I built last year with 16 cores, and 32GB of ram.
RE: Adjusted for inflation...
Beat me to it, damnit.
LOL, truer words... some had dying those really were the days.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. -- Joseph Campbell
Hewlett Packard really missed the boat by being slow to transition from the low volume scientific market, which they had cornered with desktops costing $20-40K. My fully tricked out IBMs with all the peripherals pushed $5K and maybe a 2-year service life before obsolescence justified their replacement.
“Remember floppies and stiffies?”
Remember 8” 500K floppies for the Radio Shack Model II or better yet, hard sectored 5 1/4” floppies for the Northstar Advantage running CP/M?
In those times my desktop machine graduated from a PS/2 to an IBM PC AT.
A hard drive!
In the lab I was putting together all kinds of CPM machines using the std bus.
;)
My Apple IIe was better.
“Mornings at the old folks home.................”
You know we can hear you, we’re right here. ;-)
Maybe still used in missile silos?
Did you vacuum seal it?
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