You must have had double density. My first was one I built. It had 8008 cpu with 2k memory, no floppy or hd just a cassett rrecorder. It had no e prom to start it up so that involved setting 16 address switches and 8 data switches then pressing data enter switch. It took 15 min to load a program that way that would allow me to us the keyboard. Then another 15 min to key in a program in hex that told it how to read the cassett program. A system crash meant you had to go back and do it all over again. The time was 1974. I remember the $5000 5 meg HD which I think was the first out. I remember thinking that no one could ever use that much storage. Boy have things changed. Bob Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 22:26, James Knott wrote: Hummmmm i see you started with one of the BIG drives at 30Mb My first Hdd was a huge great 10Mb 5.25" full height thing that needed an
Lucky you - mine had two 160k floppy drives :-) But then I was far behind my friends on computers - only caught up last year when I bought my Athlon. And now I'm behind again.....