[Ham-Computers] RE: windows stuff

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Dale,

I know we're traipsing down memory lane but I think you've moved a couple of 
decimal points one place to the right.  The original IBM PC-XT, the portable 
version whose nomenclature I forget,  the Compaq DeskPro and the Compaq 
Portable I ran 8086's at 4.77 MC and were available with a 10 MB hard drive (5-1/4" 
Full Height).  The IBM PC-AT, Compaq DeskPro 286 and Portable II ran 80286's at 
7 point something MC and could be had with 20 MB hard drives.  The latter at 
least with half-height drives.  I still have a Portable I and one of the very 
few 3-drive Portable II's ever built (and never sold commercially).  So far as 
I can recall, the first commercial machines running 16 MC or faster ran 
80386's.  I had a DeskPro 386 16 and then a 20.

Unfortunately, about the time that MC became MHz (and there's probably a 
French connection) the bloat set in.  My current 3 GHz P4 is nowhere near 627 
times faster at doing anything, including booting up, than my Portable I.

In a message dated 8/30/2005 7:46:54 PM Central Daylight Time, 
stpatrick3 at twlakes.net writes: 
> Duane I'm not old but I remember the commodore 64.
> My first computer was a Epson Equity IE.
> It had a 8086 processor running at I think 25 Mhz.
> It came with 1 3 1/2 floppy and I added a second.
> Then I got the money to add a harddrive, wow 200 meg was alot too.
> 

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