take.out.'takeout'.to.reply writes:
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>I can remember when IBM maintained no one would ever need a hard drive
>larger than 10Meg.
Gee, my first computer was state-of-the-art with dual disk drives. LOL
And very, very expensive compared to today's.
Two years later, when I bought the 10MB hard drive and could run more than
one program at once, I thought it was heaven!
Now my first flash drive holds 256 MB; the external hard drive . . . won't
even go there as I do video work where 5 minutes of raw video uses 1 GB of
space. Back in 1982 and 1983, we "home users" could not even begin to
imagine a hard drive of more than 800 GB, and that being small. LOL
How time flies, and technology moves forward.
Glenna
loving Panther!
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Glenna Rose) wrote:
> How time flies, and technology moves forward.
>
> Glenna
> loving Panther!
I still recall driving from Windsor ON to Buffalo NY to look at a hard
drive. Hooked up to a Mac Plus, the thing came to life and plopped
itself on the desktop, the room gasped. I put my $795.00US down and
bought one on the spot. I waited for 3 weeks to get it. It was heaven.
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5 MB
I still have my first 128K Mac. WITH extra floppy drive.
sn 4016. I am NOT going to say what I paid for that (new) should my ex
ever read this and explain why she didn't get that swimming-pool that
year....(Wringing hands with glee) Yessir.. 128K of whopping RAM (more
in my watch now)
I'm happy with Panther also, but with my wife's XPpro on a big Dell...
not enough of a difference to matter. The biggest reason why my Mac is
still my #1 box, is that all my Filemaker RDBMS stuff and CAD docs are
accessed every day. But the days of having the best computer by miles
are gone. So I hung my smug face up next to my Fender Telecaster.
This coming April, this box (G3 B&W) will have been on and running for 4
years without a single crash... and I make it jump through hoops.
It went down with a couple of power failures (One big one a cpl of
summers back) but it righted itself right after the power came back on.
Not a virus or a worm...dead solid, flawless performance.
And as far as the wife's XPpro box at work is concerned? They have an IT
department that keeps the hospital humming. All is well.
*whispers* (psssst... she finishes her presentations off at home, MS
Powerpoint, on her Mac G-4 Powerbook.... and don't tell anybody, but
Bill Gates' 'Residential Compound' was designed on Macs...fact.)
Hell, if Mary Matlin and James Carville can live together, I can have a
PC and a Mac in my house, right?
Okay.. tea is ready...*poof*