Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3135 mails)
| < Previous | Next > |
Re: [opensuse] Bad RAM support
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:04:21 -0500
- Message-id: <45F34785.6060502@xxxxxxxxxx>
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> [03-10-07 18:27]:
> [...]
>
>> 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.
>
>
I had one of the first S-100 bus 16K memory boards. It cost $200 for 4K
bytes of chips. My IMSAI 8080 came with no memory at all. This was
just over 30 years ago.
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> * James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> [03-10-07 18:27]:
> [...]
>
>> 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.
>
>
I had one of the first S-100 bus 16K memory boards. It cost $200 for 4K
bytes of chips. My IMSAI 8080 came with no memory at all. This was
just over 30 years ago.
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| < Previous | Next > |