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Message no. 1
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET>
Subject: [OT] Computer Memories (was Re: Headware Memory and Essence]
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:27:02 -0500
>|After all, everyone knows that 500 KB wasn't enough in the early 80s.
>|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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(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: [OT] Computer Memories (was Re: Headware Memory and Essence]
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:01:19 +0100
And verily, did Patrick Goodman hastily scribble thusly...
|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.

Back then, the PC was strictly a business machine, cos no-one else could
afford them.

How much did it cost at the time? 4 grand? 6?
I was thinking more in terms of the home market.
(Business machines always have, and always will be one or two steps ahead of
the home market... Or in these days, machines for BIG businesses...)
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Message no. 3
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] Computer Memories (was Re: Headware Memory and Essence]
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:12:04 -0500
>|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.
>
>Back then, the PC was strictly a business machine, cos no-one else could
>afford them.
>
>How much did it cost at the time? 4 grand? 6?
>I was thinking more in terms of the home market.

For Dad, that *was* the home market. It was sitting on his desk at the
house for years before we finally gave it to a guy who just wanted a cheap
way to type up his poetry.

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(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 4
From: Steven McCormick <stardust@***.NET>
Subject: Re: [OT] Computer Memories (was Re: Headware Memory and Essence]
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:19:17 -0500
At 10:12 AM 9/11/98 -0500, Patrick Goodman wrote:
>>|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.
>>
>>Back then, the PC was strictly a business machine, cos no-one else could
>>afford them.
>>
>>How much did it cost at the time? 4 grand? 6?
>>I was thinking more in terms of the home market.
>
>For Dad, that *was* the home market. It was sitting on his desk at the
>house for years before we finally gave it to a guy who just wanted a cheap
>way to type up his poetry.
>
>---

Sure Patrick, but your father was working for somebody like NASA at the
time, wasn't he?

BlueMule

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