Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Fri Sep 14 02:06:06 CDT 2012
Hi John Yes, and do you remember that a major success criteria for OS/2 was if it would run in 4 MB? It didn't for any real purpose; 8 MB was needed and I had a 486 beefed with 16 MB to make it fly(!). /gustav >>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 13-09-12 22:12 >>> 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:44 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia,the free > encyclopedia > > 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----- >> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [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' >> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Apollo Guidance Computer - Wikipedia,the free >> encyclopedia >> >> I've still got a 486 in the garage. Fine machine. Still works. >> >> R