Anybody remember the BrailleMate? That was the first unit I remember that had a memory card. As I remember you could buy a 1 meg flash memory card for it for $1000 in 1991.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Foxtrot" <foxtrot01876@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:13 PM Subject: [bookport] Re: Nostalgia (was Memory Cards)
Back in the 70s, I worked on a project designed to help deaf students speak.The programs loaded with paper tape and there was 4K of memory. Programswere much cleaner then, as RAM was so expensive. After all this time, I'mstill amazed at the utility of that project. Rick -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Smith Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 2:50 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Nostalgia (was Memory Cards) The first one I owned didn't even have a hard drive and the system board wouldn't have supported one. This was in 1984. The first IBM PC to have a hard drive was the PC XT and it shipped with a single 10Mb drive. -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Tanner Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:20 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: Memory Cards Well, let's see if somebody can beat this one. My first computer with ahard drive had 2 10 meg hard drives, and everybody thought I would never beable to fill them both. __________ NOD32 2578 (20071008) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.7/1062 - Release Date: 10/10/2007 5:11 PM
