OT: computer nostalgia (was RE: Rapid once deployed too)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Walter Vaughan (Fri, 05 May 2006 16:28:41 -0400):

> Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > (This assumes that my memory of it having 512K memory and 8MHz CPU is
> > accurate, of course.)
>
> As an owner of a running Tandy 16B with Profile16, I think that the
> memory is 768K in the card-cage. I'd have to fire it up this weekend
> to get the exact number. Maybe you are thinking that after the kernel
> and sundry OS services, the ProfileVM only had 512k left for itself
> and multiple users. I'm thinking a 6000 might have had 1024k.

I think the base model had 512K, and you could max it out to 1024K.

And Snapp had a 1MB add-on card, though I don't recall exactly how
that worked if 1MB was the max addressable.

Of course, as has been mentioned, when coming from the 64K Model II
systems, 512K was huge.


filePro trivia note:  Values in tok files are stored in little-endian
byte order, because it was determined that the 8MHz 32-bit 68000 in
the Tandy 16 could swap them to its native big-endian faster than the
4.77MHz 16-bit 8086 could swap from big- to little-endian.  (And by
always using the same byte order, tok files are portable between
different-endedness systems.)

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