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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org