----- Original Message -----
From: "John Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Pj:
> > > From: Using MS-DOS 6.2 (QUE book) 1993
> > >
> > > Pg. 140; pgph 5:
> > >
> > > "Hard disks have changed the most. A number of technology have come
and
> > > gone as hard disks have steadily gotten larger and faster. Drives
capable
> > > of storing more than two gygabytes(two billion bytes) now cost less
than
> > > $2,500.
> > >
> > > Who remembers when 10GB cost $10,000?
> > >
> >
> > I remember when a 20 MB drive was top of the line and cost more than
> > the rest of the machine :)
> >
> Yeah...I had an IBM PS/2 model 25 (built-in monitor) and I
> thought "wow! A whole 25 meg hard drive! What am I going to
> do with all that space!?!?!?!" :-) Boy, how times have
> changed. :-) I've now got about 40 GIGS in my linux box and
My first Intel box was an original IBM PC (with a tape cassette connector
and 256k !! of memory) with a 10MB Davong hard drive with an external PS the
size of a shoebox. I used a spreadsheet program called dss/f that had to be
programmed in Pascal. Ah ... the good old days.
Hoyt
