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JayhawkSD

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6. My first pc cost about $1800, but... And I do mean but...

Fri Aug 25, 2017, 10:58 AM

Aug 2017

It had 32Kb of RAM.
It had two 5.5" floppy disk drives.
It had no hard disk.
It had no inherent operating system.
It had a 15 Watt power supply.
It was 27" wide, 18" deep and 7" high (or thereabouts).
It used IBM PC-DOS, no version stated because it was the first disk operating system ever released into the wild.

Note that it was not MS-DOS because Microsoft had not yet stolen it from IBM.

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