David S. Cargo allegedly wrote: > I can talk more about memory than cost. > > These machines had 4K, 8K, and 16K memory cards. > > (See: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/museum.html) > > There used to be classic 3 board computers, CPU card, > memory card, and an I/O card. The memory card might have > 1K or 4K on it. > > Eventually the I/O card added floppy controllers and serial > ports, and then it became practical to have something like > an operating system (CP/M-80) and a programming language > (BASIC). And we have been paying for those two mistakes ever since. ;^) Adios, Chris -- C.S. Cornuelle School of Mathematics/MCIM, University of Minnesota 206 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 626-8930v, (612) 624-2333f, bob at math.umn.edu Ferventer Vestite --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org