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Originally Posted by Quoth
Frightening it's over 40 years ago. I feel very old  |
I actually lived when people used slide rules... and typewriters. My first computer was a Timex-Sinclar 1000 with 2k of memory. But no worries, I invested in a 16k add-on module. When I got my first PC XT, I bought a hard drive on sale for it. 40 MBs (not Gigabytes) for only $250 at Radio Shack! I think it was the RLL format (i.e. slow, and even slower when I used the "disk doubler" software that was built into DR DOS). When I was working for a local telephone/computer store a few years later, we were thrilled when we got our first 1 GB hard drives. It was slow as molasses, 5-1/4" format, but it was ONE GIGABYTE. Now for $7 I can buy a name brand 32 GB thumb drive, even when they're not on sale.
(Yes, I'm old.)