LOL... I've learnt my lesson now. I don't mind waiting a little longer for
stuff these days.
Heckler
LOL... I've learnt my lesson now. I don't mind waiting a little longer for
stuff these days.
Heckler
>> > hehe, I remember buying two 4MB sticks of 72pinn SIMM's for $536 and
>> > thinking I'll never need to buy memory again cuz why would you ever need
>> > more than 8 MB of RAM???!!!
>> Hah.... I remember upgrading my Old Olivetti to 2MB, doubling it's memory
>> and thinking... that'll do the trick... Luckily I got the Ram for free.
>> Heckler
>I remember getting 4 16K static ram memory boards for my Northstar Z80 CPM
>machine and thinking that would last forever.
BobR
> >> > hehe, I remember buying two 4MB sticks of 72pinn SIMM's for $536 and
> >> > thinking I'll never need to buy memory again cuz why would you ever
need
> >> > more than 8 MB of RAM???!!!
> >> Hah.... I remember upgrading my Old Olivetti to 2MB, doubling it's
memory
> >> and thinking... that'll do the trick... Luckily I got the Ram for free.
> >> Heckler
> >I remember getting 4 16K static ram memory boards for my Northstar Z80
CPM
> >machine and thinking that would last forever.
> Oh my- and when I bought the optional 4K memory upgrade (bringing it
> to a total of 8192 bytes) I had to worry about my OSI C1P being
> compatible with all the "standard" 4k systems out there...
> BobR
Oh, and memory mapped graphics. WOW ! ;O)
elrikk
-Tim
Gak- I spent $550 on my Atari 810 floppy drive. It was quite a
spending decision- I'd bought used cars for less money than that.
But you're right- it was absolutely amazing to have a program or DOS
load in a fraction of the time that the cassette tape drive took, AND
do it reliably.
Of course, then the controversy arose over "punching" the disks so you
could turn them over and format the "back sides", since a blank 5.25
inch disk was well over $2.00 each at the time.
I listened to all the arguments against doing it, and then went ahead
and punched every disk I owned. Doubled my storage capacity with the
click of a sheet metal "nibbler". Now THAT was a good "upgrade".. :)
BobR
>>hehe, I bought an Atari 5.25" external floppy disk drive for $325 for my
>>Atari 800. Talk about a jump in performance over the $90 tape cassette
>>player. Remember those? It'd take about 30-60 minutes just to load a game
>>that the floppy disk could do in about 2 minutes!
>>That has to be the best computer upgrade I've ever made in my life!! :)
>>-Tim
>Gak- I spent $550 on my Atari 810 floppy drive. It was quite a
>spending decision- I'd bought used cars for less money than that.
>But you're right- it was absolutely amazing to have a program or DOS
>load in a fraction of the time that the cassette tape drive took, AND
>do it reliably.
>Of course, then the controversy arose over "punching" the disks so you
>could turn them over and format the "back sides", since a blank 5.25
>inch disk was well over $2.00 each at the time.
>I listened to all the arguments against doing it, and then went ahead
>and punched every disk I owned. Doubled my storage capacity with the
>click of a sheet metal "nibbler". Now THAT was a good "upgrade".. :)
>BobR
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Your Guide to Success
I'm about to pay nearly $300 for a freakin' joystick!!!
(Oh, Jesus, where did I go wrong with my life! <grin>)
1980 - 48KB ram $125
1980 - 144KB Floppy drive for AppleII $500
1982 - 2 DSDD parallel floppies with adapter for Atari 800 $1500
1984 - 5Mhz IBM clone with mono monitor $2000
1985 - DSDD Floppies $200 each