I hear you...Remember Bill gates said he could never imagine a need for more than 16meg of RAM...Then he went out and wrote a pig of an operating system to prove himself dead wrong...Find a door that needs propping open or a boat that needs securing, and git yourself a nice AMD Pentathlon with about 200meg of RAM...It might save your marriage! And cure you of road rage...I find that a bad day on a computer gets compounded in Seattle's 2 hour commutes. Best Regards,SS
The advance of hardware and software over the years has been interesting, to say the least... while trying to "bring up" the older 486 to a level close enough to the newer machine ( so I didn't have to keep switching between different OS's and browsers ) it briefly ran DOS 6.22 and then Win 3.1-- geez, what a pain they were!
I used to be something of a Power User in DOS ( you had to be to get it to do much of anything besides c:.... )and trying to recall arcane stuff like diskcopy a: a: was, ahem! a bit of a challenge. I can recall the thrill of upgrading my old Trash 80 from 384K of RAM to the full 640K... the expense, the long wait to get chips.... and now people throw away old memory that we would have killed for back then... I found a pile of 72 pin SIMM's being used for key fobs at my wife's office. They weren't of any use in my machines, but that shows how common more memory has become.
2-hour commute, huh? Seems like I used to allow 1 hour to get anywhere... always had a rule of thumb-- "in any city, allow at least 15 minutes to do anything, including driving around the block...."