Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] DOS memories

["Shawn Parker" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

and to think now you can just download and run doxbox on your windows
machine. :)

On 4/6/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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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shawn

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