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 ;)
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