10-15-14 12:21 Alan Zisman wrote to Ed Vance about Windows shutdown   
      
    AZ> @MSGID: <543EF0BD.13479.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    AZ> On 2014-10-14, 8:15 PM, Ed Vance -> Alan Zisman wrote:   
   -snip-   
    EV> Yep!, a lot of folks had 256KB or even 512KB of RAM.   
    EV> I'd have to look for some of the old catalogs I used to get to see   
    EV> how much Money 64KB or 128KB RAM modules costs back then.   
      
      
    AZ> Back then, RAM was sold in individual chips - a row of 8 (or 9   
    AZ> when error-checking parity was enabled) were needed.   
    AZ> Installation was a pain - it was easy to accidentally bend one   
    AZ> of the pins on a chip when pressing it into the socket, and   
    AZ> identifying which of the chips was mid-installed could require   
    AZ> pulling them all out and resetting them.   
      
   Howdy! again Alan,   
      
   IIRC, I remember seeing very large 8-Bit(?) Memory Cards loaded with   
   I.C.'s being advertised in magazines back before I started using my   
   486DX33 Personal Computer.   
      
   When mine was built I was surprised that the Motherboard only filled   
   up half of the width of where it was mounted, everything else I had   
   was always perfectly square and my motherboard was a rectangle.   
      
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