On 25/10/2020 20:23, NY wrote:

> 256 Mb. So 64 MB? That's luxury!
>
> I can remember when I bought my first computer, in 1981, a CPM/3-based
> "Wren" (*). I decided that I could just about afford the RAM upgrade
> from 16 KB to 256 KB, but I couldn't justify or afford the disk upgrade
> from 2 floppies to 1 floppy and a 5 MB hard disk.
>
> My first IBM-compatible PC, based on an 8086, came with a 20 MB HDD. It
> ran MS-DOS fine, but it wasn't up to running Windows 1 - and I used up
> most of the HDD even installing it from the multitude of diskettes that
> I borrowed from work to try it out of curiosity.
>
>
> (*) I remember it was the first time I'd even driven in London, in the
> car that I'd bought a few weeks earlier after passing my test -
> navigating along the A40, Marylebone Road/Euston Road, Gray's Inn Road
> to Theobalds Road where the shop was. I even managed to find my way back
> home again ;-) The Wren still worked until I last tried it a few years
> ago, when I found that the PSU (a very obsolete design) had finally
> packed up.


You were clearly posh. I didn't have a car. I road my bike to pick up my
first RAM extender and I didn't get to ride on the Marylebone road, I
had to ride underneath it.


Actually true, a trip to Watford Electronics via Edgeware Rd, a shop
that specialised in bits for the Acorn BBC B.

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