[vcf-midatlantic] Happy Birthday IBM-PC

Bruce freemab222 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 18:08:48 UTC 2021


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?)
Bruce
NJ


On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 8:57 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at 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 at 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 at 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
> > >
> > > http://cini.classiccmp.org/
> > > Long Island S100 User’s Group
> > >
> > > Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS
> > >
> >
>


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