Re:Thanks for the memory: How cheap RAM changes computing
by specialist on Monday October 17, 2016 @01:42PM
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"Commodore 64 RAM Disk"
Oh man.
I manually stuffed 1.5mb (three 512mb RAM cards) for an image capture system. My thumbs got blisters. The PC was an over clocked Tandy 80286 (8 mhz!). I forget the name of the goofy Lotus/Intel/Microsoft memory expander contraption. That Tandy was a tank.
We were doing large format image capture for document archival. Totally not worth it. Results were unusable. But we had investers, so...
Before that, I thought I was pretty cool pimping my Apple //e with an 80 column character display and 128kb RAM. True word processing, WYSIWYG.
Oh man.
I manually stuffed 1.5mb (three 512mb RAM cards) for an image capture system. My thumbs got blisters. The PC was an over clocked Tandy 80286 (8 mhz!). I forget the name of the goofy Lotus/Intel/Microsoft memory expander contraption. That Tandy was a tank.
We were doing large format image capture for document archival. Totally not worth it. Results were unusable. But we had investers, so...
Before that, I thought I was pretty cool pimping my Apple //e with an 80 column character display and 128kb RAM. True word processing, WYSIWYG.