To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
My first hard drive had a capacity of 20 megs. We are rapidly approaching the point where an inexpensive external hard drive will store a million times that much.
9 posted on
07/17/2013 9:08:34 PM PDT by
Kip Russell
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To: Kip Russell
>>My first hard drive had a capacity of 20 megs. We are rapidly approaching the point where an inexpensive external hard drive will store a million times that much.<<
The first HD I had was 5MB Winchester. It was better than the 8” floppies we had to carefully store.
And we had to write our programs in Z80 ASM
AND WE LIKED IT!!!
11 posted on
07/17/2013 9:23:40 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
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To: Kip Russell
My wife gave me a 20 meg drive as a Christmas present when we had our original Mac 128...oh, the thrill of such massive, nearly unlimited storage compared to those floppy drives! I remember it cost $600.
To: Kip Russell
These were a bargain back in the day:
35 posted on
07/17/2013 11:46:53 PM PDT by
DigitalVideoDude
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