[PAR35]

23 years ago I was using WordStar on a multiuser CPM machine using 64K Z-80 processors - and with a whopping 10 meg hard drive that was the size of a breadbox. Televideo terminal and a daisy-wheel printer finished the package.

Man, you had a fancy system. I had 2 5.25 floppies (no hard drive). The ROM ate up 4 or 5K of memory, so I only had about 59K usable by the system. I still have the daisy wheel printer and the computer in a closet. I did find a site the other day where you can download various flavors of CP/M.

[dirtboy]

I used some machines that had 8 inch floppies. Now a lot of machines don't even have floppy drives.

I still remember the first time I heard the term "gigabyte" - and remember thinking "man, that's a lot of disk space". Now you can blow multiple gigs in one sitting.

I remember that 10-meg winchester drive that was bigger than a dictionary and now I see those USB drives with 512 meg that are smaller than a Bic lighter and I marvel at the changes.