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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

And I remember when I thought my new 340mb HDD was all I would ever need. LOL!


3 posted on 08/26/2014 7:22:25 PM PDT by doc1019
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I remember upgrading a 2 floppy IBM PC with a 10M hard drive, and then being shocked several months later when it ran out of space.


8 posted on 08/26/2014 7:27:05 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Ain’t that the truth?


19 posted on 08/26/2014 7:36:48 PM PDT by rabidralph
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And I remember when I thought my new 340mb HDD was all I would ever need. LOL!

My first computer that I owned I bought used from a guy who only had it a few weeks. It was a Gateway 386 20Mhz with an amazing 16 MB of memory and featuring a 20 MB HDD. In the old days, DOS used to run a memory test on start up and the first time I turned on that baby, it literally buzzed through the memory test. I still remember how awesome it was!

27 posted on 08/26/2014 7:44:16 PM PDT by BRK
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I remember going from a 10 Mb HD to a 20 Mb HD and thinking how great it was to have all that storage.

Just 2 years later, 100-200 Mbs were common and necessary.


34 posted on 08/26/2014 7:47:15 PM PDT by TomGuy
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And I remember when I thought my new 340mb HDD was all I would ever need. LOL!

Yep, I remember paying $750 for a 20 megabyte hard drive. My gal was mad because she said I would never fill it. She was right... Ahh, those were the days. Having to learn fortran because the program wouldn't work....

Geez. Am I officially an old fart now?

37 posted on 08/26/2014 7:49:17 PM PDT by Wingy
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I remember plonking down $1200 for my first 5MB hard drive, and thinking I’d be in the catbird seat for quite a long time. The number of 8” floppies that thing would hold was incredible, plus it was SOOO fast.


51 posted on 08/26/2014 8:20:16 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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Is that you, Bill Gates?


54 posted on 08/26/2014 8:45:16 PM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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