5 Jun
2010
5 Jun
'10
9:26 a.m.
On 6/4/2010 11:29 PM, Gene Buckle wrote:
I have a very clear memory (no pun intented) of
spending $19.95 for
*one* 256k x 1 (41256?) memory chip. I needed nine of the things to make
a full bank in my PC. This was around 1987 or so. It took a long time to
fill that bank of memory...
When we bought our AT&T PC 6300 in late 1985, it came with 128K of RAM.
My father later bought a program that needed 256K, so he spent a lot
of money and came home with 36 (I think) DRAMs to populate the
motherboard with up to 640K. A teen at the time, I thought he was
absolutely crazy to spend that money when the program was just a simple
graphics demo and I was only playing 64K .COM games and writing BASIC
programs.
Six months later, I was burning up all 640K on a regular basis and
wishing DOS supported more. I formally apologized to my dad for
doubting him :-)
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