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

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Sep 13 15:12:19 CDT 2012


LOL, yep, most likely 4 megs or maaaybe 16 megs maximum.

My 386 that I bought in 1988 had 4 megs and it eventually ran Windows 3.0.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

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

On 9/13/2012 3:12 PM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky
>> Smolin
>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 9:09 AM
>> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
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>> encyclopedia
>>
>> I've still got a 486 in the garage.  Fine machine.  Still works.
>>
>> R
>
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