Seeing we're all reminescing... My introduction was on NCR 499's in 1981, 4 cassette drives and a mag card reader. Wrote the Council's first word processor on a machine without a screen, even did mail merge! The highlight was when they upgraded the memory to a whopping 32Kb of RAM. You had to write some pretty efficient code to fit in that.
Later, in 1985, we upgraded to a NCR 9300 with screens and 10Mb hard drive. In 1988 they added 4 x 20Mb (NOT Gb) removeable hard drives at a cost of $80,000. I had one of the first PC's with dual 8 inch floppies. Remember trying out Windows version 1 from a floppy, took about 3 minutes to load up calculator. My first home computer was a Commodore VIC 20, 3K of RAM and a cassette drive. I won a Commodore software competition by writing a game in assembler (never want to do that again!) and bought my first 5.25" floppy drive for $1000. And you try telling the young people of today that ... and they won't believe you!! Cheers, Laurence Bevan Master Business Systems Ltd P O Box 467 Feilding _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
