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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug wrote:
> You are a late-comer.  I can remember when 16K was the standard ram, 
> and 64K was the
> biggest expansion you could get.

My first computer, an IMSAI 8080, came with no memory.  I initially 
bought a 16K board, loaded with 4K, but later filled that board and 
added a 4K board for a total of 20KB!  That computer had an Intel 8080 
CPU and I bought it in Nov. 1976.  No disks for be back then.  A pair of 
floppy drives, case controller etc., would have doubled the cost of the 
computer.  I used audio cassettes and paper tape (I also had a Teletype 
Corp. model 35 ASR, which I bought as surplus from my employer).  For 
display, I had a video card that could do 16 lines of 64 characters to a 
video monitor or 16 x 32 to a portable TV.  That computer came as a bare 
board and bag of parts that had to be soldered to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080
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