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echo: classic_computer
to: Bob Ackley
from: John Guillory
date: 2010-07-12 06:35:22
subject: The Computer Retrochallenge

Re: The Computer Retrochallenge
  By: Bob Ackley to John Guillory on Sun Jul 11 2010 06:10 am

 > Mine uses a 5.25" floppy.  It's hard wired to boot from the
floppy and nothi
 > else.
 > Once CP/M is awake it switches to the C: drive - a big, heavy
5.25" hard dri
 > that has a capacity of a whoppping five megabytes.
   I got to thinking of it, the one I had used a 5 1/4" as well, but
hard-sectored....  I didn't have a hard drive though.... A lot of adapter cards
though just to run the video, floppy drive, memory, etc.
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