Re: Reading older disks

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

You wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> -- 
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> http://www.NetBSD.org/ IM:darcy%Vex.Net@localhost
> 

This could rapidly become the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch from Monty
Python.   I had an early IBM PC with *two* floppy drives, but the
first Unix box I ran rather than just used was an NCR Tower which
started off with 512KBytes of RAM, later upgraded to a whole MByte,
with a 40MByte drive.  Eventually I ran twelve dumb terminals off it,
and it worked, but that was 35 years ago.  But then I go back to the
time when dropping your deck of punch cards was tantamonnt to a "short
sharp shock" jail sentence.

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>


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