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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The real fun was hacking an old system
with more RAM and having to solder the RAM chips on to the system board. Can't
remember the exact model, but I watched my boss when he was 12 or 13 years old
solder more memory on to one of his system boards and thought that he was crazy
to do such a thing. Turned out ok though, and he had 4MB of RAM instead of
2MB.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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cialug-bounces@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>j.bengtson@mchsi.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 29, 2010
11:49 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Cialug] I Remember
When Computer Specs</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Is this just a sneaky way of identifying
the old fogies here?<br>
<br>
The first computer I got to lay hands on was an Apple II (48K RAM, 1MHz 6502
processor, monochrome green monitor). Several years later, when they
first announced an external hard drive option, I remember wondering what in the
world anyone would need 20 MB of hard drive space for...<br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: Todd Walton <br>
<tdwalton@gmail.com>To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <br>
<cialug@cialug.org>Sent: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:47:55 -0500 (CDT)<br>
Subject: [Cialug] I Remember When Computer Specs<br>
<br>
I saw a person's Outlook cache file the other day that was 19GB large.<br>
A friend pointed out to me that his first computer (he's a youngin')<br>
had no more than 4GB of hard drive space total.<br>
<br>
You know how people compare memory and hard drive space like that?<br>
They scratch the salt on their shoulder and say <mock deep="" voice="">'I<br>
remember when computers only came with 500 MB of RAM.' Well, it
seems<br>
to me like that can only go so far back. There was a certain point<br>
(the mid 80s?) where there started to emerge a PC standard, in the<br>
form of the "IBM PC compatible". I'm a latecomer to this
scene, so<br>
correct me if I'm wrong, but before that time computers were largely<br>
packaged as complete products where you got what you got, and there<br>
were several different types.<br>
<br>
Comparing the amount of RAM in a Commodore 64 to a modern PC doesn't<br>
make sense. The Commodore 64 or others didn't have the same<br>
architecture, they didn't use RAM in the same way. Obviously it's<br>
amazing that we can package several gigs of memory into a single stick<br>
of silicon these days and it's actually affordable. That's clearly<br>
better than we could do in 1985. But there's something not quite<br>
right about comparing them as if there's some linear scale they both<br>
exist on.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Todd<br>
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