On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > Back in the days when we had to whittle our own chips from wood, a 4K > > byte memory board was considered a lot! > > I recall adding 32 32k memory chips to an add-on board to give my 286 > 3mb total of system memory at a cost of ~us$300.00. Had a 35mb > Seagate hard drive that lasted about 4 months.
Hey pops, Could the 80286 even ADDRESS 3MiB of RAM? Oh never mind. My documentation said it could address 16MiB of RAM ;) Maybe people just couldn't afford 16MiB back then ;) As for the Seagate, I'm horrified! You should have gone with Quantum and a SCSI controller ;) -- /---"Horst G. Burkhardt III"---------------------\ | There's no place like localhost (127.0.0.1) | | http://pandora.k9-net.org/ <- My Website | \--------------------------<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>---/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
