Need to upgrade my PC... on the cheap

[Gyro Doctor]

Wordstar on one disk and your document on the other

And 256K was the max memory any operating system could handle.
Imagine being "the fly on the wall" when the engineers were sitting around figuring THAT one out ... "Nobody will
EVER require more than 256K of memory, why would they?" ... If only they knew, right?

 

[Gyro Doctor]

I wonder what I'll be making room for when I throw this stuff out

Outdated energy to matter conversion units, Heisenberg compensation modules gutted from obsolete transporter mechanisms,
and spent nuclear power nano-packs from older hovercraft if I had my wish

 

[Radium_Angel]

I still have a client who uses 5.25" disks....two drives in her last computer.

 

[roger jones]

And 256K was the max memory any operating system could handle.
Imagine being "the fly on the wall" when the engineers were sitting around figuring THAT one out ... "Nobody will
EVER require more than 256K of memory, why would they?" ... If only they knew, right?

Not sure what is more scary, going to the moon or going with less tech than my mobile,!

 

[Spork]

And 256K was the max memory any operating system could handle.
Imagine being "the fly on the wall" when the engineers were sitting around figuring THAT one out ... "Nobody will
EVER require more than 256K of memory, why would they?" ... If only they knew, right?

I can imagine their thoughts even just a few years later.

My first computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer - used a TV screen as the monitor. Mine came on Christmas morning with 16KB of RAM. But apparently, Santa said he brought the wrong one and after the exchange I had a whopping 32KB! I eventually had four floppy drives, although I started out with the cassette player tapes as storage.

 

[Spork]

Not sure what is more scary, going to the moon or going with less tech than my mobile,!

Exactly. You had to be a LOT more compact and efficient.