Oh I still have my still working Tandy (used only double density discs lol).. thought the hard drive was huge..couldn't imagine ever filling it. It was like 20 meg. I can remember signing on and not ever really knowing if I was online for a long time...it took that long for anything to come up and I think I went on right before 9600 baud came out...like 1989 or 90. ^i^
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of colin.fletcher Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 7:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Treo] Re: Comparative computing I was n heaven when I bumped my Tandy 100 to 32K from the stock 28K 300 baud modem too as well as gobs of cassette tape storage. Had my first car phone around that time too - couldn't use it many places but it was cool to have, Used a number of programmable HP computers too - I guess they had way more computing power than the Gemini stuff. I should of thought of duct taping my HP41CX (still use it) to the Motorola brick thing I had at the time - almost a SmartPhone. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cobun7 Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 5:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Treo] Re: Comparative computing That room is still viewed as part of the NASA tour. I started on a Sinclair 2000 with 2k of RAM. I did grades on it with a tape recorder that saved files. I couldnt understand what I would use 8k for but I went for it anyway. Always a sucker for useless memory! I was told that a 133Mhz computer was 10 times faster than what was in a Mercury capsule. Nick --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> com, "Betsy Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Absolutely. The Gemini computers had 4k ram... nice history here: > http://www.hq. <http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/contents.html> nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/contents.html > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
