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To: Dalberg-Acton

...and before that Windows 1.n was given away free with the purchase of 4k of memory chips iirc.


7 posted on 05/18/2015 4:56:48 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

4K of memory wasn’t cheap back then.


8 posted on 05/18/2015 5:01:39 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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My first computer (MC6800) came with 256 BYTES of RAM and a programming guide that listed it's machine codes.

Halt and Catch Fire was NOT one of them.

53 posted on 05/19/2015 12:38:27 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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