On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:52:09 -0500, Paul
wrote:

philo wrote:

[snip]

At the time the machine was made 16 megs of RAM would have been (almost)
an impossibility and probably cost over $50,000

The RAM was probably bigger than the biggest disk drive
at the time :-)

Hardly. I bought a system (XT-compatible) with a 20 MB hard
drive in 1988. That was a run-of-mill size then.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko