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Re: Reading older disks



On 2018-08-23 09:03 PM, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Aug 23,  5:36pm, steve%prd.co.uk@localhost wrote:
> } I cheated - I found a memory medule that fitted and got the system to
> } boot.   Did we really once find 356MBytes adequate?
> 
>      365MB?!?  My first hard drive was 40MB and that was considered
> fairly large for the day.

My first HD was 5MB.  Later the systems came with 11MB.  Then one day I
scored a brand new 20MB drive.  I had to patch the CP/M binary in order
to access it.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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