>From Patty, sending from a relative's e-mail account:
> ... if you try to put in a "new" harddrive in the computer
> later there might be some problems. (You would have to get an older drive
> that only is around 512MB)
Sunday I found an old 250 MB one purely by accident, and practically
free.
>...I nearly broke my memmory since it didn't want to work with
> the PC today, but then it suddenly worked :)
> The relief of seeing it count to 65536, I can't even describe it. Now what
> do I do with all this memmory in DOS? Perhaps a 32MB RamDrive?
> The only thing that I run that requiers "much" memmory in DOS is Arachne
> (32MB?) and Settlers (6MB)
> >> Just look at the memmory diffrences between an IBM computer and a normal
> >> one. This (atleast in the past) has been rather big.
I find I am not sure what kind of "memory" people are talking about --
HD or RAM, or maybe even something else.
I am reading a library book about DOS; it is tough sledding the first
time through.
> I just want to point out that there's a big diffrence when it comes to
> upgrading your computer if you have a IBM. I think you should try to do as
> Or suggested in another mail and get a bigger harddrive for your Mac.
Prohibited by expense.
> Well, they might just want to play games on it and do nothing serious work
> on it (however I started programming Basic at the age of 8 or somethign
> like that, but that was just because there wheren't many games for the
> computer back then.)
I'm not sure computers existed when I was 8. That accounts for my
slow start. If they did, they certainly used vacuum tubes and machine
language. When I had my first job, punched cards were the newest
thing, and it was my job to code the inputs for the keypunchers to
read. The computer took up the entire first floor of a building that
covered four city blocks.
Patty
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