[MLUG - DISCUSSION] DOS memories

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I thought I'd start a new thread for this:

Isn't DOS (Disc Operating System) a lame name?  It was used back when 
you'd get a computer with only a 5.25" 360K floppy disk drive -- if you 
wanted to be a big shot, you'd get dual floppy drives!  (No HDD because 
they cost many hundreds of dollars.)

It was 20 years ago this summer that I bought my first PC.  It was from 
Leading Edge.  The standard was one 4.77 MHz CPU, 256KB of RAM and a 
single floppy drive.  I doubled the memory to 512KB and added a second 
floppy.  I drove all the way to NYC from western Massachusetts to get a 
good deal.  I think I paid about $1200.  Later on I added more memory to 
go all the way up to 640KB -- it was frickin' expensive to add a lousy 
128KB!  Thats KB, not MB.  In the Fall of 1986 I added an HDD for about 
$450 -- it was 30MB with the RLL controller, but it was really a 20MB 
drive (MFM I think it was called).  Then I was really cookin'!!

Mike

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