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Quote from: Sephirah on Today at 03:39:02 PMThe built in tape drive was witchcraft
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where a 2 megabyte hard drive was cutting edge.
What I would have given for 2 megs of disk!  Or even *any* disk.  When I first got my H11, it had 8 K of memory and *no* disk, not even a floppy.  It used punched paper tape for storage.  You wouldn't believe how that affects your program development cycle!  You made sure your programs worked right the first time, second max.

I did eventually max it out at 56 K of memory, added a 64 K 5.25" floppy, a dual 8" (2x 256K) floppy, and eventually, a 14" disk platter that held 10 megs.
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Quote from: Stottie Girl on Today at 03:56:43 PMShow off! Spectrum 128k where I had the 48K, Amiga 600 when I had the 500 lol! Spoilt cow ha ha!

Haha, I got my 600 off a car boot sale, for like 20 quid. ;D The 500 had the full keyboard. The 600 was like an Amiga laptop.
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