XPost: uk.comp.os.linux, alt.windows7.general   
   From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:   
   > When I was a boy, a rescue disk was just that, 1.44M max (OK just for   
   > DOS)   
      
   I wasn't a boy at the time, but my first computer ONLY had a floppy for   
   'storage'; the Atari ST held its OS in an on-board EPROM that it booted   
   from.  If you need to store something on the floppy, like a doc, and it   
   only held 720 KB.   
      
   > The Atari 1040ST, released in 1986 with 1 MB of memory, was the first home   
   computer with a cost per kilobyte of RAM under US$1/KB.   
      
   All of that worked 'just fine' for what I was doing at the time, logging   
   onto a commercial BBS by dialup & commiserating w/ other AtariSTers or   
   using a graphical word processing program to print on a 9 pin dot   
   matrix.  I didn't up to a 4 meg memory and a 20 meg hd, and networked   
   machines by their cartridge ports for years, and 24 pin dot matrix.   
   Those were 16/32 bit Motorola 68000s.   
      
   I was recently reading a backstory about Steve Jobs working a while at   
   Atari (the 8 bits) as a step in his dropping out days.   
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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