From: | Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET> |
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Subject: | [OT] Computer Memories (was Re: Headware Memory and Essence] |
Date: | Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:27:02 -0500 |
>|Enough was 640KB. ;)
>
>?????
>Enough in the Early eighties was 16K, and then 48 or 64K. Later still,
128K.
Depends on who you were and how much you spent.
>Only when the Amiga and ST (and QL) game out did people think in terms of
>500 - 640K. (And that was mid to late eighties).
Not necessarily (well, maybe it was on your side of the Atlantic). My
father had an IBM PC/AT (I think it was an AT, might have been an XT) with
640K in late '81 or early '82. I remember that because I wound up
inheriting his TRS-80 with 64K, which didn't satisfy me but it sure made
term papers easier for my dyslexic little brain to type up.
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