[AccessD] Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Thu Sep 13 14:12:31 CDT 2012


More than me apparently because for the life of me I can't remember.  It
does have both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch floppy drives, tough.  And is strictly a
DOS box.

R 

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Yea, except in those days 16 mbytes was a monster machine.  Who would ever
need more than that?

How much memory does it have Rocky?

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 9/13/2012 12:23 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Which means you are not going to throw it out.
>
> Just install a version of Linux on the box and the old beater is now a 
> server suitable for rack mounting and networking.
>
> Jim
>
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> Smolin
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> I've still got a 486 in the garage.  Fine machine.  Still works.
>
> R

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