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smoky77211 t1_iu4ca7b wrote

Reply to comment by fangelo2 in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_

Doubtful. It likely needed you to load DOS.

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HaikuBotStalksMe t1_iu4mx7m wrote

I think by 1989, OSes were installed to local drive.

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ItDoesntMatter59 t1_iu6nfyf wrote

Boot from floppy was normal. HDD was more expensive and my first pc had a 10mb drive.

Mb. Not gb.

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HaikuBotStalksMe t1_iu6ty4v wrote

10 mb is huge for that time. The OS would have been like, what, 800 kilobytes? So after formatting and stuff, I'd figure you had 9.5 megs free.

Install DOS to hardrive, you have crazy fast boot times (probably 15 seconds instead of a minute), and still like 8.8 megabytes for all your text files.

I started computing in 1995ish with a 300ish meg hardrive (I think 320). It was reasonably sized until like 1999.

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notacanuckskibum t1_iu6xe11 wrote

Things were changing so fast it’s hard to remember exactly where we were in which year. 1989 would have been about Windows 1.0.

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