Geeze. You kids today. My first HD was a Davong 5MB that cost several thousand dollars (fortunately, a client paid for it). But that's not the amusing part.
No, the amusing part is that I partitioned it into two 2.5MB partitions so I could run both PC-DOS and the UCSD p-System (and the p-System was far superior, by the way). After living for some years with 90K diskettes (and cassette tape before that), I could not imagine how I would ever fill either partition. > -----Original Message----- > From: Computer Guys Discussion List [mailto:computerguy...@listserv.aol.com] > On Behalf Of Rev. Stewart > Marshall > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:05 PM > To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days > > My first PC (not commodore) had dual 5.25 floppies no HD. > > My first HD was a 30 MB Hardcard (fit into a full size slot) I paid > over $300 for it. The most expensive HD I ever bought. > > Stewart > > > At 06:49 PM 12/22/2009, you wrote: > >I think my first computer had a 250MB hard drive. I don't remember > >how much ram. At work we were wowed when the CAD guy got a 500MB and > >then a 1 Gig hard drive. I had been using DOS a lot at work for CNC > >machine programming and thought it was kind of fun. I found Windows > >3.0 pretty frustrating, but the computer played Doom really well. > > > >Jordan ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
