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133 is probably too fast for that age PC and also you did mean "M" rather
than "K", yes?

 

There's a reason for that though. Both require hard graft to make a
*decent* living.

 

Oh, no doubt about that, but there's certainly a market for more. And
not just more, but someone who provides good customer service,
specifically when you rign up to try and book them, they ring you
back...

 

You can't do that with no file extension. The box is greyed out.


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"Jumpers for goalposts"

10Mb "Winchester" drive. Separate box the size of a normal desktop
unit. Gawd knows what it cost, but IIRC the PC it was connected to was
the best part of 2 grand. For 512kB memorya dntwin 360kB floppies.

1Mb "Extended memory" card, requiring a special access for anything
over 640kB.

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Well I started playing games (I was ten) but the same thing applied

I still fondly remember [1]upgrading from 1mb to 2mb so I could have speech
in X-Wing


[1] getting my parents to pay for

 

Actually, thinking about it, that was the first memory upgrade onna stick
that I had to install myself. I did have the famous "wobbling reset RAM
pack" for the ZX81. 16k that was, but I can't remember how much it cost.
Probably 50 quid or more though, so that would be about 3 quid per Kb, which
would be <tappity tap> 46,260 times more expensive than now... wow.

 

Ace wrote

One of the very first Apple PCs to be sold in the UK is what I was told.

 

Bloody kids. I was an experienced DP[1] professional by then

1983 was when we started replacing the CPM machines with IBM PCs.
[1] IT hadn't been invented.
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Ace wrote

Are you sure about this?

I seem to recall I was teaching principles of it about then.

 

Dan White wrote:
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I did have the famous "wobbling reset RAM

Still available for £44.99
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80M Seagate IDE drive. Shortly followed by 2xfull height 300M ESDI
drives+controller+cables. For about 1/4 of the cost of the 80M IDE
drive..

And said ESDI drives are still going as far as I know - I gave them to
a friend who was building a linux box out of old bits and the said
linux box is still running with the OS as set up 7 years ago.

Ohh - I still remember my excitement at getting a 12M memory card (MCA
bus no less!) for my IBM PS/2 50Z. Largely cos it then meant that I
could run Desqview and multitask on a 286 running DOS. Which was
especially nice because I could run the 3270 emulator in one Desqview
session and Ultima 7 in another and toggle quickly between them if my
manager hove into sight.

Phil.

 

It has been a long time since I used Win98, but I'm assuming
that you could still put the key into the registry to allow
this? If not it must be user error...

 

6502 were not from Intel - they were designed and made by MOS
Technology. CP/M didn't run on 6502 processors - it was Z80 only (which
is why if you wanted to run CP/M on a BBC Model B you had to buy the
Torch Z80 co-processor box).

The Z80 was from Zilog Corp.

Neither were from Intel.

6502 had a 16-bus address bus..

The BBC had a similar mechanism for paging ROM images into and out of
memory which allowed you to have multiple programs occupying the same
space.

Phil

 

Champ emerged from their own little world to say

I did a few months work for a jobbing electronics manufacturer. They had
some contracts to build spares for ancient military hardware. The Marconi
ATE used to test the pcbs used CP/M.

Their youngest ATE used a Windows 3.1 PC as the UI.

 

Phil Launchbury wrote

I had proper unix running on one of them and a real network of 8
workstations.

 

Indeed. I once drove around for months with two Superbrain CP/M
computers (dead ones) in the boot of my Cortina. I was very happy to
find that (after my Cortina had been stolen and recovered) whoever had
stolen my car had also taken the computers out of the boot.

Which saved me the hassle of having to dispose of them myself.

We need to start a sad git number. Fancy being KoTL?

Phil.

 

Indeed. The Z80 was designed by some people who left Intel and set up
Zilog and was pretty much a direct copy (at the opcode level) of the 8080.

Phil

 

Can't see how. AIUI windows uses the extension to define the association.
No extension = no association. ISTBC but there certainly is no way of
associating a non-extended file via the 'normal' method.
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It would have been next to impossible to do it before...

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