I recently saw a memory chip on the wall of a computer store. It is a full
12-inches square and 2-inches thick. The funny thing is--the size of the
memory is actually quite small.
Thanks for the blast from the past! I was sure we had some old 'heads' on
this list that were contributing answers to us newbies. You know who you
are and you're terrific.
<Whisper>Now all we have to do is convince the newbies that do not have any
patience; that do not understand Linux; that do not know how to install;
that do not know how to compile or tweek, our Mandrake is a superb product
produced by a band of developers who are visionaries and thinkers. A bad
attitude doesn't win awards or get much help from the list. We are,
afterall, volunteers, not nurse/maids or babysitters.
</Whisper>
Mandrake, you're getting better and better with every new release.
Pj
At 09:45 AM 7/24/00 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:20:52PM -0700, Anton Graham 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 :)
>
>I remember when the first manufacturer of a microcomputer offered a hard
>drive. It was Ohio Scientific, which made a 6502-based multi-user computer
>which did everything in BASIC. The hard drive was an OEMed 74 MB 14" rack
>mounted hard drive. The controller was on two cards, each larger than any
>card you are likely to find today, larger than some modern moterhboards.
>
>
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