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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 640kb limit on DOS?
Keywords: 8008 Mike2 Digital Group
Message-ID: <12841@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 20 Dec 88 17:38:58 GMT
References: <8043@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <45900178@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <4090@charon.unm.edu> <3575@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <3575@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:

| Since we're reminiscing ...
|
| I'm still using the first PC I owned.  A genuine, original, tan case
| Osborne-1.  Came with 64K of memory, 2 90K, 5.25" floppies and a 52 column
| by 24 row, 5" diagonal screen for $1750.

  Did you see _War Games_? I still have my IMSAI, the same model as was
use in the movie. The 2MHz 8080 was upgraded through Z80's, 8086's, a
286/Z80 combo, a 68k, and briefly to a 386. It's now running an 8086,
and a hacked version of PC-DOS (not MS-DOS, PC-DOS, but hacked ;-) with
CP/M disk reading capability.

  I keep it running because there is still a demand to convert old 8
inch CP/M disks to PC-DOS format.
--
        bill davidsen                (wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me