On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> >> >> On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, "Michael Mol" <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> > > >> > > My earliest "new and shiny" then would be a honkin' big desktop >> > > horizontal >> > > all-steel box, with a "Turbo" switch that toggles a front-panel >> > > (7-segment >> > > LED) display between "4.77" and "8.00" >> > > >> > > And of floppies that really *are* floppy (5.25")... >> > > >> > > And of copy-protected diskettes and CopyIIpc and CopyWrite... >> > > >> > > As you can see, I have a severely traumatic childhood... >> > >> > PC, XT or AT? >> > >> > Fastest system I ever used what dropped down to 4.77MHz was a 33MHz >> > 386.. >> > >> >> Not sure... >> >> It was a no-name clone... I think it's 8086... >> > > Whatever the brand is, it came with a whoppin' big (in terms of HxWxD) 20 MB > hard disk. > > (Or maybe 80? My memory's failing me ATM)
Our 286 (that Tandy) came with a 20MB hard disk. The 386 I got as a hand-me-down had a 540MB disk. (That was a bit of a golden age for me; I never managed to fill that drive.) -- :wq
