| Highplainsnotillr - 2/17/2010 23:49First computer that I owned was an IBM AT clone -- 6 Mhz 286, 10 Mb hard drive (full height 5.25) and a Viewsonic VGA monitor -- At that point I had a better computer at home than I had a work.
HA. I remember one computer I liked at work was a 286, 2 Mhz with a 4Mhz turbo button. I never understood what anyone would run other than turbo.
Spent quite a bit of time working on UNIX workstations for several years when PC's really lagged the power curve as far as graphics and computing power capability -- I remember using a Sun workstation in about 1988 that the company I worked for upgraded from 4Mb of ram to 8Mb -- right at $5,000 to do that -- just north of $1200 /Mb.
Suns were/are spendy. We had several at work a few years ago. Always had to have contract support come out to fix a CPU or memory. When it came time to upgrade the memory, it didn't take long for management to figure out it was much cheaper to upgrade 5-6 workstations from Sun to IBM workstations running Red Hat Linux. It was cheaper to buy one work station than paying to upgrade the memory for one Sun box.
We had a couple big HP data servers running Unix. Where they were installed in the cabinet, there were counter weights on the back. I still have them mounted on the back of my skid loader as weights. |
Been looking at "first combine" and "first grain bin" posts on Cafe, what about computers?
