[CTS] Re: RAM
- From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblake@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:44:09 -0500
Hard cards aren't that old or that fabulous (oversized board for the
controller so that a drive can mount directly to it) - I have 4 or 5
machines with hard cards in them including my NEC 286 portable.
Now try and set up an MFM, RLL or ESDI drive - betcha hardly even heard of
these. RAM is good too when you install it one DIP DRAM at a time, into the
sockets. My 8088 and 80286 based machines have these. Fun comes trying to
figure out which one is bad.
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From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:45 PM
To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [CTS] Re: RAM
Bruce Eddy wrote:
>
> Yep...My first hared drive was a 20 Meg..doublespaced into 30...Darn thing
> was almost the size of 2 CDROMs hooked together too...
>
Full height drive it's called, CD-ROM drives are half-height. Back then
I ran a BBS off a rickety old 386sx. The thing had 8 30-pin SIMM slots
and a grand total of 2Megs RAM, with all the slots filled. I had two
single-spin CD-ROM drives(Real Sony CDU-53's). It had a 120Meg disk
partitioned in half. I ran PCBoard on that thing.
Do you remember hard cards?
>
> Hmmm....sounds like we're taking a walk down memory lane again...:)))))
>
I'm 20 years old, and I tell you, it's a bad sign when a person my age
reminisces about the "good old days".
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