On 13 May, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Wilson Chao wrote:
> In 1991 my Osborne I computer only used SSSD floppies with 90 *KILO*
> bytes per disk.
Yeah - and even something simple like accessing help in Wordstar or Supercalc meant the system had to dump some of the main program to load in the overlay Help file from the disk (then swap it back when done).
I still have my Ozzy1, the 300baud modem and all the original software. $1800 from Microcenter.
Oh, and it was 1981 :)
-jimmy (had the notch tool for the disks as well)
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