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To: SkyDancer

yes i paid $1000 for an ibm memory board that had 2K of memory chips. It would not fit in the pc i owned so i bought a memory card that you could insert the chips into. The IBM board was soldered so i tried to unsolder using a wood burning tool. after that didn’t work i used the old reliable propane plumbing torch. Popped them out and put them in the 2K board. Installed oracle and ran with the 2k in extended memory. that was around 1989. ran for several years 24/7 crunched numbers each night from my buddies pc and prepared fax reports for stock selection (Goerlich/van Brunt Newsletter)


18 posted on 09/15/2014 5:20:49 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: kvanbrunt2

Apple IIe: just making page breaks required the manual.

On a..... wait for it...... tractor-feed dot matrix printer, YAY!


19 posted on 09/15/2014 5:27:48 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Barry is but a symptom of the disease that killed this republic. TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: kvanbrunt2; SkyDancer

Around 1995 I had a 386 (or was it a 486). When I installed extra RAM Chips to increase my RAM from 4to 20 Megs my buddy in Tech Control said “Are you insane?”

The hard drive was half a gig.

The cell phones teen girls are using to take and post “selfies” would blow that thing away.


21 posted on 09/15/2014 5:35:33 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: kvanbrunt2
Should have added this:

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30 posted on 09/16/2014 11:07:26 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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