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| 2466.1 | | NZOV01::MCKENZIE | Support your right to arm bears | Tue Apr 11 1989 17:17 | 6 |
| this is a tough choice - particularly if you intend programming...
I personally bought my external drive first and followed up with
the mem expansion shortly afterwards....
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| 2466.2 | Go for the drive. | AYOV28::ATHOMSON | C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie | Wed Apr 12 1989 04:53 | 6 |
| Yep, it's a tough choice. I would recommend the extra drive first
though, as I certainly found the infernal disk swapping a bigger
pain than running out of memory and in spite of all these 'murcans
with their mega memory, there is a lot you can do in 512k.
Alan T.
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| 2466.3 | None of the above | TALLIS::JFOLEY | | Thu Apr 13 1989 10:59 | 7 |
| If you're interested in doing real programming, I suggest saving up and
getting a hard disk. You can't beat having both the compiler and
the programs you're working on (not to mention the editor, link
libraries, terminal emulator, and all the other software you use
regularly) always there when you power up the system.
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| 2466.4 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Thu Apr 13 1989 19:19 | 10 |
| another vote for the floppy. I just added a 2nd external floppy
to my 1000, now I can leave my workbench disk in all the time, even
when doing disk copying.
Disk swapping isn't fun.
But then again, neither is discovering that new, wonderful game you
just have to buy, requires 1 Meg when you have only 512K.
-Dave
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| 2466.5 | make a big ram disk | VQIS05::CYBER | | Fri Apr 14 1989 17:32 | 8 |
| If you get a couple of meg of memory, you can skip the second drive.
Just load a couple of your disks into a recoverable ram disk and go.
I did this with my 1000 for a few years and it was blindingly fast.
( I did have the second drive but seldom used it once I had set
up my disks to boot up and auto load into ram. You do have to keep
the machine on 24 hours a day but that's probably better for the
machine anyway )
Dick
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| 2466.6 | | ADODEM::MCGHIE | | Sun Apr 16 1989 04:20 | 11 |
| I bought the A501 1/2 meg expansion first. A couple of days ago I
bought my second floppy drive (Commodore were selling 1010 drives
cheap). I found that 1MB of ram came in handy when downline loading
or basically anytime when I wanted to use multi-tasking.
I also recently bought Benchmark Modula-2. One of the interesting
things it seems to have is the ability to load the compiler into memory
so that you can edit/compile/link very rapidly.
regards
Mike
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