Yes, can remember the Apple II with its 5 1/4 inch floppies with
affection.
I was working at the Nowra (NSW) paper mills and implemented a mill
shop floor data collection using about a dozen apple computers
networked together using a Corvus network with a central disc drive.
The network was 1 mb/sec and was an early form like Ethernet.
All software was written by me in Apple DOS or 7502 assembler.
The system was operational for about 5 years and served the mill
well. Then replaced by the new boy on the market - IBM personal
computers.
Cheers ... Clyde
On 27/08/2009, at 11:21 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote:
but can you imagine in 1979
apple II+ with 64k ram & a great floppy drive with 150kbytes
capacity & dos 3.3 operating system
then in 1984 the apple IIc with 128k ram & floppy drives with 720k
capacity, prodos 9 operating system
there was appleworks allready well known
and the first steps to a graphical interface/mouse appeared in the
updates
James
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On 26/08/2009, at 22:53, Joe Mastrella wrote:
Greetings! My first Mac was a IIVX 32MZ processor, 3 gig HD. I paid
just under 2000 dollars US including an HP printer. Then I decided
to upgrade the memory. I paid 200 dollars for 20 mega bites of
ram.That's right, 20 mega bites
of ram. We have come a long way since then.
Cheers, Joe
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bill Parker <re...@westnet.com.au>
wrote:
If only Bob. My first one was an SE or some such name.
Megabytes were unheard of. Nothing to do with telephones,
ethernet or anything else. The little beast just sat there on
the desk but it was BLOODY sight easier to use than the DOS
machine my neighbour had. But I had hypercard!
And, I know someone who still uses OS8 because the music software
is better.....
Sounds like a Monty Python sketch about licking t'road .......ey
up Obadiah.......
Bill
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