Radu Zaharia@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 10 months agoLet's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space.raduzaharia.medium.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1151arrow-down17
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-linkLet's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space.raduzaharia.medium.comRadu Zaharia@lemmy.sdf.org to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squaremakingStuffForFun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agowooo, look at mr high end over here :-) 640kb RAM 2 x 512 floppies CGA green screen / monochrome
minus-squarevettnerk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoThat wasn’t my first PC, just the one on which I played BG1 and used drivespace. My 1st PC was more like the generation after yours. 386 of some sort, 2x 3.5" floppies, and a whooping 43MB harddisk.
minus-squaremakingStuffForFun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoSounds similar to my 2nd. 386SX with 20mb hd. 4mb RAM. She was a beast.
wooo, look at mr high end over here :-)
640kb RAM 2 x 512 floppies CGA green screen / monochrome
That wasn’t my first PC, just the one on which I played BG1 and used drivespace. My 1st PC was more like the generation after yours. 386 of some sort, 2x 3.5" floppies, and a whooping 43MB harddisk.
Sounds similar to my 2nd. 386SX with 20mb hd. 4mb RAM. She was a beast.