12 Aug
2010
12 Aug
'10
7:59 p.m.
On 12 Aug 2010 at 20:00, Tony Duell wrote:
IIRC the origianl 5150 couldn't take a hard disk.
So with a maximum,
of 640K or RAM and 4 360K disk drives (which I suppose you oculd use
for buffering data), I think it's going to be hard to handle
multi-megabyte web pages...
There were many third-party hard drives. I rigged up my own with an
SA-1000, WD1001 and a little interface board. 4MB, granted wasn't
much, but it worked. Ampex and others had similar setups.
And one could always use LIM (EMS) memory on a 5150.
Lynx is available for DOS, but is severely memory-constrained and
slow as a Dell customer service representative.
Arachne will run on a 286, but you don't want to endure waiting for a
page to load.
--Chuck