Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue Oct 9 18:20:13 CDT 2007
512K?? Mine had only 64K and only 56 of that was usable! Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:59 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs >My first PC came with WordStar, VisiCalc and dBASE II, plus CP/M. LOL. My first PC I built from a kit. It had 512K or ram and didn't come with anything. I ran CPM on it, and any software of interest that I could download off of the bulletin boards that I dialed into using a 2400 baud modem. Stored them on a dual drive 8 inch floppy (which cost me $750) with a whopping 1 meg storage per floppy. I was writing programs in Turbo Pascal at that time (~1983). My first "PC" pc was an Epson PCXT with DOS, and I purchased Dbase III Plus, Word Perfect and Lotus 123. That would have been ~1986 or so. An XT machine with a 10 meg disk and (gasp) FIVE MEGS of ram, most of which was just used as a RAM disk since DOS did not directly support more than about 640K at that time. I knew I was "famous" when I got a call from a person in New York (I was living in San Diego at that time) who had downloaded one of my programs off of a bulletin board somewhere and wanted me to make some mod or another. My wife harasses me to this day about deleting WP from her computer when I tired of supporting (her using) it after I had switched to Word back in the mid 90s. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:29 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Tuesday? FW: The Most Collectible PCs My first PC came with WordStar, VisiCalc and dBASE II, plus CP/M. I learned WS in two days, VC in two days, and I've spent the rest of my life trying to learn databases LOL. A. On 10/9/07, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > > Worth a few minutes if you're old enough. Under 30? Don't even > bother clicking the link. > > Easter egg: there's a link in there on one of the pages to download > your own copy of VisiCalc. > > http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=5428179 > < > http://tech.msn.com/products/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=5428179>1= > 10438 > > >1=10438 > > Rocky Smolin > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com