John Husvar wrote:

In article k.net,
"Tomes" wrote:


I remember getting a 20MB hard drive and being ridiculed for opulence.
"How are you EVER going to fill THAT up?" That was on a 8088 machine.
Tomes


Similarly, I remember, when the 10MB Winchesters came out, wondering who
on Earth would need to store 10MB of data _on_ an internal drive? Of
course, those were the days when there wasn't much but text or binary
files and a whole big bunch of text or data files would fit on a floppy.

What was I thinking? A whole big bunch of text and data files will
_still_ fit on a floppy. It's just that floppy drives are being replaced
by inexpensive CD and DVD RW storage that store more and have better
data retention, more or less.


Yea, but that's before Uncle Bill stole the idea of windows from apple
who stole it from Xerox Parc and started the world down the bunny trial
of bloat ware. Long live CP/M!

If were were all still working from the command line, the computer world
might be a much more secure place. Of course, i would be living in a
stone house with a car that used feet for motive power...

Bob



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