Yes, David, the good old days .. TRS-80 and such. My HP PortablePLUS, a
ROM-RAM box with two expansion slots (64 pin predecessor of PCMCIA) ...
I got a gigantic 2MB SRAM 'disk' for a mere $2900 .. in 1988 .. but
managed a database with 11000 addresses plus Lotus123 etc., under DOS2.2
on an 8086-8Mhz chip upgrade that cost me an additional 400. And those
were real dollars, before Jimmy Carter.
Frank KF
David Goldman wrote:
>The first personal hard drive I ever had hands-on experience with was for
>(gasp!) a TRS-80 Model I about 24 years ago. 5MB for only $5000. Woohoo!!!
>
>I guess hard drive prices have come down a little since then. ;-)
>
>
>
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