The 10 Megabyte Manifesto

Re:The 10 Megabyte Manifesto by larrys on Saturday June 29, 2013 @07:04PM (#5964014)

Side note: ran an entire small business on a 10mb hard disk off an IBM compatible in the 80's. Later in the 80's on a multi user Unix system with a 70mb hard drive. (Won't get into before that at the school computer center but the space give was in K).

All text based, no graphics.

Eagle PC (founder drove his Ferrari off a cliff the day the company went public).

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Re:The 10 Megabyte Manifesto by patmcguire on Saturday June 29, 2013 @07:08PM (#5964023)

The wikipedia article is crazy, they undid the IPO for Eagle because of this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Computer

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Re:The 10 Megabyte Manifesto by larrys on Sunday June 30, 2013 @12:06AM (#5964669)

I had an Eagle 1600. I remember when founder drove off the cliff and I remember how it damaged the company. The rest of that wiki article I don't know if true or not.

I remember the distributor I bought the machine off of (I pretended I was a computer dealer so I could buy wholesale and even had checks printed to make it seem more legit) telling me that he had more demand for Eagle because of the death and all the attention on Eagle from the publicity. (Have no idea whether bs or not but definitely remember him telling that to me at the time).

They were nicely designed machines. The 10mb was not full either. Did all sorts of things with it.

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