Re: [PLUG] How to Archive Data for 20 Years?

[Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:56 AM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:
> On 03/12/2014 09:44 AM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of a five meg harddrive: I had to laugh several years ago
>> when I first boosted the RAM in my workstation to 4 Gig.
>
>
> Let me date myself a little.....  I remember taking the RAM of my BBS up to
> 1M.
>
> Now where did I put my cane?

Hey, I remember working on a PC that actually used hardware-level EMS
- not the virtualized compatibility stuff.  A utility could be used to
set up a disk cache in EMS if you didn't need it for applications
(since most applications didn't know anything about it), and I think
the board also had a RTC - you had to run a utility to sync the system
clock to it.  No worries about replacing the CMOS battery on the
original PC since there wasn't one...

Rich
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