[Coco] Cartridge size limit?

[Dave Philipsen]

Well, it was right around 1979-80 when I paid $50 for the DRAM but I 
suppose SRAM was even more precious at that time.  Prices were also very 
volatile during that period. I can remember in the mid 80s a company 
that I worked for bought a ramdisk card for a DEC PDP-11.  I think it 
must have been maybe 128 or 256k and it was somewhere around $900 I 
think.  The instructions that came with it required us to type in a 
bunch of octal codes into a monitor/debugger with a serial terminal to 
patch the OS so the ramdisk would be recognized. I have no idea why that 
couldn't have been put on an 8-inch floppy.

Dave


On 5/4/2016 10:01 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 May 2016 09:45:08 Dave Philipsen wrote:
>
>> Maybe he hails from our era when 64K for the original CoCo 1 was $50
>> and that was a good deal!
>>
>> Dave Philipsen
> Chuckle.   You aren't reaching far enough back up the log Dave, I can
> remember paying $400 of KRCR-tv's money for a 4 kilobyte static ram kit
> that sat on the S-100 buss, circa 1979 that it took me a day or so to
> build.  Worked as expected when I was done too.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett