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I particularly like the 300MB disk for $20,000. Gulp!

 

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Was limited to 8 images in the last post, so the next two are here.

 

Only as long as we ca go for the $20,000 300MB hard disk upgrade as well.

 

Look! A Co-Co!

 

we found a pile of old magazines once and were going through all the old catalogues in the back, hillarious looking at some of the stuff of old

sad thing is in 15 years they will be doing the same thing to the stuff we have now

'dad are you serious, you used to have a PC with only four cores in it? and not even a single TB of memory? wow, and air cooled? how quaint!!'

 

....then you could put the cool 16K RAM card into them.

 

Excel - who the hell needs excel?

 

300MB is overkill. You’ll never need more than 80MB.
Seriously… “What the heck is Electric Mail?” Will it work with Briefcase Portable computer?

 

To quote an ex-boss, 'normalisation is just something people did when there wasn't much memory'.

 

Electronic Mail is simply when you ship components to someone in the mail. HTH.

 

Come on, hands up all who used to own one of these little beauties: -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sinclair.zx.16k.rampack.jpg

 

Weren't they for people who couldn't afford the 48K Spectrum?

 

When at college in 1991 i only used a pc so i did not have to use tippex!!
Never realised one day i would know what i was doing with pc's.
Hope todays the day!!

 

I had the old 16k speccy when they came out and the upgrade to 48k was the first pc hardware job i did! just 4 little dil memory chips inserted into the sockets already on the pcb!

In those days ya didnt have to worry about matching voltages, clock speeds and latency timings. You just bought the chips that Sinclair recommended from Maplins.