31 Jul
2013
31 Jul
'13
6:28 p.m.
On 1 August 2013 02:22, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
POSSIBLE.
Not particularly likely, since floppies were available,
Well, quite.
and RAM [IFF you
did not buy it from IBM] was a TRIVIAL expense to bring it up to 64K.
Blimey. The difference between a 1`6K and 48K Spectrum wasn't trivial
to me around then, but I guess when you paid 10x as much for your
computer, yes, it would be trivial.
Easier, as ONE vendor did, to sell the 64K for one
price, and the version
for use in 16K for a bit more money, since the 16K version included 27
chips that you had to plug into open sockets on the motherboard. THAT
ploy was handy for dealing with Board Of Education types who sometimes had
a software budget, but no hardware budget.
Ahahaha! Cunning!
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