On Saturday 07 September 2002 02:18 am, Colin Jenkins scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > Hello Alastair, > > Saturday, September 07, 2002, 6:42:50 AM, you wrote: > > > AS> Considering DOS, I began with 5.25" floppy disks on IBM ATs, which were > AS> built like tanks - green screens, enormously thick case metal and the > > > > my first was a kit (microbee z80 processor, 16k ram) upgraded to 64k > to run msdos. used a cassette recorder for storage. think the first > floppys I saw were 8"
Ah, more memories. My first IBM-PC has 256k of memory (Sales guy: "You can install 640k, but no one will ever need that much!"). Two full height 5.25" drives and a Davong 10MB hard drive (with an external p/s the size of a shoebox). The hard drive was partitioned to use DSS/F, a goal-seeking spreadsheet (Visi-calc was the reigning spreadsheet app at the time). The DSS/F was written in "F-code" (it was Pascal, IIRC) and the spreadsheet had to be compiled before each run. Fun stuff. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com "Fix it until it breaks."
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