28-04-2011, 06:27 PM
Hi All,
My first experience of computing was when i was a lab tech and we bought a Commodore PET and if I recall correctly we bought it with a double amount of memory - 8k ROM instead of 4k (yep, it wasn't Mb in those days). It had a 'nice' 8" green screen and double 5.25" drives.
I also recall that we (the lab staff) all wanted a Winchester disk drive for one of major lab analysis kits which was massive and 20mb but we couldn't afford it as they were just too expensive. Its hard to think that early dot matrix printers wre bought for thousands too!
Regards
Rob
My first experience of computing was when i was a lab tech and we bought a Commodore PET and if I recall correctly we bought it with a double amount of memory - 8k ROM instead of 4k (yep, it wasn't Mb in those days). It had a 'nice' 8" green screen and double 5.25" drives.
I also recall that we (the lab staff) all wanted a Winchester disk drive for one of major lab analysis kits which was massive and 20mb but we couldn't afford it as they were just too expensive. Its hard to think that early dot matrix printers wre bought for thousands too!
Regards
Rob
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