On Friday 23 January 2015 15:41:06 Ric Moore did opine And Gene did reply: > On 01/23/2015 03:09 PM, Dom wrote: > > On 23/01/15 19:21, Joe wrote: > >> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:08:56 -0300 > >> > >> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote: > >>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 +0000 > >>> > >>> Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> Touchأ©. :-( Yes, that wasn't very nice. But one can hardly > >>>> compare 1985 with now! Hard drives were in single figure gig > >>>> sizes. > >>> > >>> More like meg sizes... > >> > >> I was thinking that. My ARM-based Archimedes of 1989 had a 40MB > >> drive option, and my first PC in 1996 had a 1G drive, which was > >> typical then. A fresh Windows 95 installation occupied about > >> 25MB... and RiscOS in the 1989 Archimedes was a half-MB ROM. > >> One-second boot. > > > > My Archimedes originally only had the 800MB floppy, then upgraded to > > a 20MB HDD and shortly after to a 105MB SCSI HDD. > > > > Then I upgraded my BBC B to a 42MB HDD :) > > Online Uncle Al once wrote that Canada was where all the 40 meg hard > drives went. :) Ric
I don't recall that I ever had the experience of reading his output, Ric. How far back up the log was that? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501232117.30912.ghesk...@wdtv.com