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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
For that matter, I still have my ancient PC clone running MSDOS 5 on a shelf. It has a 10 mhz NEC V20 CPU, 640 KB of RAM, a megabyte of expansion RAM on a card, a Hercules graphics card driving a mono monitor, and two 20[b]MB[/i] Seagate ST-225 hard drives. My Palm TX PDA has 128MB NVRAM, 4GB of storage in an SD card, and a 312mhx Intel PXA CPU.
Everything gets smaller, faster, more powerful, and cheaper. Alas, users don't get smarter... 
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Dennis |
My first real computer experience was on a ZX81, a simple processor (a Z80) and a default of 1 KB of memory, no internal disks of course. I did have the whooping extension pack to 16KB memory. On that machine I learned programming.
My first PC was a Commodore Colt, a 8088 CPU with 640 KB memory. We upgraded it later with a 20 MB (or 10, I can't recall) hard disk. That was a huge investment then. The disk was just a slow as a floppy...
Ah, the early days of home computing.