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

[Bob Stockler]

Ken Brody wrote (on Fri, May 05, 2006 at 04:41:34PM -0400):

| 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.

I thought I recalled that Snapp had a 1-Mb card (and that I'd
gotten one), but I've written Tom Pancero (who worked for Snapp
back then) for confirmation.

Snapp also had a multi-terminal board (I think, and think it
could allow 24 terminals to connect).

Bob

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