I wish I could remember the specs on the first computer I owned. I can remember some. It looked like this:izzarina wrote:I was telling my 16 year old daughter about our Mac Classic that we had quite a few years ago, and that it only about about 20 MB in it. She was shocked, and wondered how on earth could anyone possibly use such a small amount of memory!!herbivore12 wrote:A friend got a Mac with a 20 MB hard drive, and we all teased him: "How could anyone possibly need that much memory?!", etc.
It had 16K of RAM, which I later doubled, to become the hottest jock on the block for about a week.
It had no hard drive. It had no floppy drive. I/O was accomplished via a patch cord to an ordinary cassette player. Software came on cassette and then you could write data files, such as they were, to cassette tape.
It had what was then called a "Chiclet" keyboard. Keys more like a calculator than a modern computer keyboard.
One used a television set for the monitor.
In spite of these limitations, I actually used this machine for a few years.
I also owned an Atari ST personal computer for awhile. They were big in Europe for a time but never caught on in the States.
I think my first "IBM compatible" computer had a 40 MB hard drive, but I can't remember anything else about it.