"Dave In Houston" wrote in message
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"Doug Winterburn" wrote

Maybe 2000 megs or 2 gigs?

Gigabytes ... mea culpa.

(still having a hard time thinking of RAM in the magnitude of
"gigabytes").
"Surely we'll never need more than 640K?"

Our first 686 had a whopping 64 MB RAM and a 30 MB HD !


Sure that was not a 286 or a 386? Before the 286 was the 8086 and the
8088's IIRC. I don't recall 686's.