[geeks] musings

[Michael S. Schiller]

I remember thinking about getting a HD for my newest system, an Osborne1. A
company was selling a 3mb hd but I didn't have the 5k to spare :) And I
remember when I got my Amiga 3000 getting a real DEAL on memory, got 16mb for
ONLY $100/mb !!! Times sure do change. Looks like the time when Scotty's
comment 'A keyboard, how quaint' is a reality ain't that far off!

-Mike

Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 04:09:35PM -0500, Tugrul Galatali wrote:
> > *another random musing*
> >       Whatever happened to the days when I thought P5s should have been
> > where Intel stopped developing CPUs and the world should have started
> > developing efficient software instead? I remember P5 60s running Win 3.1
> > like lightning for what its worth... (that was the first current computer
> > I encountered after using second hand Apple IIes and IBM XT at home. I was
> > blown away :)
>
> Software will expand to take up all available RAM and CPU processing
> power.  MP3s and net pron will expand to take up all available HD space.
>
> I remember when a 1G disk was HUGE... now I have a 20G in this system,
> and its considered SMALL.. You can get an 80G for LESS than what I paid
> for (at company-cost-prices) for a Seagate 1G IDE back in 1995.
>
> ($250 for that drive... and $700 for my first SPARCstation 1.. *sniff*)
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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