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Davdi said:
I remember when we first had 'Broadband' - a whole 512 MBs - seemed super after a 56K dial-up modem (And I can still do a 1KHz whistle to test the modem).
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I too remember days like that. Then came T3 connections and now even that is slow.
 
BrickHouse said:
I too remember days like that. Then came T3 connections and now even that is slow.
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My coolest friend had two phone lines and a pair of Diamond 56k (internal) modems that could be bonded, yielding 112k (theoretically). Definitely the fastest dial-up I ever saw.

He also had a Bernoulli drive (anyone remember those?) which offered removable storage in 5-1/4" cartridges, 20MB per IIRC.
 
Davdi said:
My first machine was a 386SX/25 with 100MB hard disk and 4MB Ram. and a 3.5" and 5.25" Floppies.
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And here I thought many others had started with a box the size of an end table with real-to-real storage using 16 meg ram to keep enough info handy to make the computer useful. Guess that was too early or much for some. At least I didn't have to use vacuum tubes. My first desk top was an Apple. Before Microsuck started.
 
BrickHouse said:
Those machines are from the early - mid 80's, I was tampering/tinkering with machines in the 70's when 8 megs of RAM was a high end machine.

Guess that makes me out to be some geazer.
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Hmmm. I bought my first PC in 86 and added at memory card (that I had to populate with a bunch of chips) to get to 640K. There was nothing on the MB back then.
What were you installing 8MB into a decade before that?
 
rootabaga said:
Hmmm. I bought my first PC in 86 and added at memory card (that I had to populate with a bunch of chips) to get to 640K. There was nothing on the MB back then.
What were you installing 8MB into a decade before that?
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Most decent machines then did very will with 512K , I had added a new (data) ribbon and multiple boards to get 8 megs. I pulled 2 megs per board. The trouble came with trying to get the system {a version Pro-DOS} to recognize and use more than 1 meg at a time. I had a friend that enjoyed coding, I enjoyed playing with the hardware.
 
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