Amen Pj...Amen!
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Mark
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Pj wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >--
> >
> > -- C^2
> >
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> >
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