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Old 09-15-2010 | 09:52 AM
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From: Boeing Hearing and Ergonomics Lab Rat, Night Shift
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Originally Posted by DAL73n
Actually, I'll one up you by saying I have had computers that ran the 8088 and CP/M and MS-DOS 2.0 (wasn't ready to trust 1.0). The 8086 was a full 16 bit version of the 8088. Also, it ran at 5 Mhz (5000 hz) with 64K (64,000 bytes of ram) and two 5.25" floppy disks. Just thought I'd date myself a little.
Oh please:

This...



...hooked up to the TV (its the hopped up Sinclair ZX-81 with the extra 16k memory on the back)

mmmmmm Basic!

I bet DBMS runs on this bad boy ;-)

Cheers
George

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