On 8/12/21 20:08, Bruce via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Colleagues and I were discussing the Sinclaire pocket computer with 1kB (>GASP<) of memory, back then. But we were spoiled by access to mainframe computers with (double >GASP<) 14 GB of memory! (IIRC. Maybe it was 14 MB?)
I don't think anyone had GB of anything back in the 80's. I remember back then when our IBM mainframe was upgraded to 1mb of core memory and that was serving 3 hospitals with 100's of terminals. My phone has 4 GB of RAM and 256GB of flash storage. I don't remember how much DASD storage the mainframe had but the disk drives were huge. Mark
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:57 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Back then I remember as a kid the Timex TS1000 was $99. *That* was too expensive for me then.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:47 AM Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was too young and broke in 1981
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 7:45 AM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
August 12, 1981 at a news conference in NY, IBM introduced the PC. 40 years ago. Holy cow. I think I was still using my VIC-20 then. Rich
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