On 09/12/2015 01:14 PM, BugHunter wrote:
Mark Lloyd schreef op Za 12 Sep 2015 om 13:08:
On 09/12/2015 08:18 AM, A.M wrote:

[snip]

I had the same size as my first. It was inside of an IBM PS/1 on
which I
learned all of the basics of a PC. I hated that it wasn't
upgradeable in
any reasonable way though. It also didn't take long before 30MB was
replaced by 120MB, then 540MB and so on. 30MB wasn't huge for very
long.


I remember when 540MB was common. At the time I had 420MB. I wondered
what people were doing about the 504MB limit.

BTW, I was reminded of those disk limits when I got an old PC
recently. It won't accept a drive larger than 8.4GB (16 times 504MB).


I bought a 540 MB drive, there was a floppy
with it with a kind of extender program, so
I could use the full 540 MB.


So BIOS would recognize it enough to boot?

Maybe it was like the 32GB limit, where early drives that exceeded it (I
had a 40GB) had a jumper to limit it to 32GB for the BIOS and a program
to recognize the real size.

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