9 Mar
2024
9 Mar
'24
8:23 a.m.
Fond memories too, my second significantly used home computer (mainframes and midrange at
work) (first was Trs80 m1, many others that I did almost nothing with)
Mine was the first pc/xt clone I found for under $1000. Eventually grew to 3.5" A:
disk and two double sided 80 track 5.25 disks for B: and C: (stolen from the trs-80 m1)
The a: was operating system and most tools, a few specialized alternates for making
greeting cards or something. The b: and c: were my "raid" array...everything I
wrote to B was also written to C.
still have that in storage, as well as several original pcs when they were tossed out at
work.
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 03/09/2024 8:11 AM CST Murray McCullough via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I look back fondly on the IBM PC-XT of 41 years ago. It was very pricy here
in the Great North but it allowed for a much more advanced computing
environment. What one could do with a 10MB hard disk! Granted it was far
more popular in the business world than the consumer one. However, it made
possible much greater developments that hobbyists and experimenters latched
onto.
Happy computing!
Murray 😊