"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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First system I bought for the company I worked for at the time (we
designed
disk subsystems for the DEC and Data General market). $4400. 512k
memory,
could not get the full 640K in the early 80's. 8" floppy. Hard drive was
separate from the controller card. My boss at the time went to Quantum
and
designed the first fully integrated disk drive. The "Hard Card".
Internal
disk controller to the drive. Latest system was an on sale Compaq with
80GB
drive, 256mb memory, memory card reader built in and 8 USB ports, 2.5ghz.
$450. No monitor.

In 1981, I bought an IBM 8088. I believe it ran at 1 MHz.

My first upgrade was to a Hercules graphics card, so that I could play
ScionChess in 3D. I also had a 300 baud modem...it was the cradle
type...that you put the actual phone receiver into. At one point, I think I
could type faster than 300 baud...

The next year, I put in an MFM 10 MB hard drive, and thought I was in
heaven. That drive cost $1500.00! I proclaimed at that time, no one would
ever need a hard disk bigger than 10 MB! Heh heh...

I still have a $4000.00 386 in a closet somewhere...which I used to run
AutoCAD, with the Boat Hull design software plug-in...ouch!


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