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Quoth · 07-21-2022, 08:43 AM

My 1st HDD was 5 Mbyte. Before the IBM-PC existed. It needed a separate PSU. My company had been "conned" into getting an Apple II. We should have started with an S-100 system. Added Z80 card (for CP/M), 80 column card, real keyboard, dual 8" drives (1M). The HDD was last. The Apple II floppy drive was a joke. Their own custom 100K format design.
Written on a i7-6700 @3.4GHz, 512G NVMe SSD, 2 T SATA HDD, 28" 4K screen. 10s boot to Linux Mint (Mate Desktop). When I remember how slow MS Xenix was on a 286, or Cromenco's 68000 CPU Unix like Cromix. I once had NT3.51 on a 386. In real terms the i7 PC mentioned, UPS & 4K screen costs less than a bare Apple II in 1980 with no extras.
KATE when I want distraction free writing. LO Writer for all Wordprocessing for years now. Stepped off the MS Office & Windows Treadmill.

07-21-2022, 08:43 AM	#38
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,176 Karma: 105212035 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	My 1st HDD was 5 Mbyte. Before the IBM-PC existed. It needed a separate PSU. My company had been "conned" into getting an Apple II. We should have started with an S-100 system. Added Z80 card (for CP/M), 80 column card, real keyboard, dual 8" drives (1M). The HDD was last. The Apple II floppy drive was a joke. Their own custom 100K format design. Written on a i7-6700 @3.4GHz, 512G NVMe SSD, 2 T SATA HDD, 28" 4K screen. 10s boot to Linux Mint (Mate Desktop). When I remember how slow MS Xenix was on a 286, or Cromenco's 68000 CPU Unix like Cromix. I once had NT3.51 on a 386. In real terms the i7 PC mentioned, UPS & 4K screen costs less than a bare Apple II in 1980 with no extras. KATE when I want distraction free writing. LO Writer for all Wordprocessing for years now. Stepped off the MS Office & Windows Treadmill. Last edited by Quoth; 07-21-2022 at 08:50 AM.