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From: Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Keeping 'order' without RTC.
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"David B" <askforemail@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I think the first PC as we know it was 1981 (IBM) so it was a very very very 
> long time ago in the eyes of a PC.
> 
The IBM-PC was a latecomer to the scene. Most of us who had 'Personal
Computers' were quite disparaging of its early specifications.Originally
it was very restricted in terms of memory, and disk capacity. 

The original IBM-PC floppy was only about 160 kb while we 'old hands'
were used to 1200 kb floppies. I believe the very first IBM-PCs didn't
even have floppy drives at all.

Jack


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