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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
Do you ever find yourself starting to panic when you fill your disk more than half full, before remembering that, actually, you've still got tons of free space left?
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My first 'real' computer (IBM286) had a 20M hard drive that held all my software and data. DOS 2.0 was the operating system. I bought it to write my graduate thesis. WordPerfect 5 (complete with Keyboard template for the function keys,) had all the correct pagination, footnote, headers, etc., built right in! (If those weren't correct, the thesis committee wouldn't accept your work!) All text-based, no GUI yet.... And I never worried about running out of storage space.
These days I have over 4.5 terabytes of storage on two internal and four external drives... and I worry.
(But I've got back-ups of my back-ups
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I miss my Vic20. 20k of computer hooked to the TV, playing interactive games in text! Yellow text on a black screen. Those were the days...
Stitchawl