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In lugnet.cad, David Laswell wrote:
> Okay, my first computer came with a
> 16GB hard drive, so yeah, space was pretty cramped then. My second computer
> came with a 100GB hard drive, but even after I bought that I was still seeing
> people getting all tied up in a knot over how large an LDraw part file was vs.
> how large they thought it should be.
My first PC had no hard drives, just two 360 kb floppy drives. One for the OS
and the other for applications and documents. My second PC had a 10 Mb hard
drive that took the physical space of two 5 1/4" drives. The Michelangelo virus
took its real-time clock app...
/Tore
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| (...) Oh, we're playing "first PC", eh? My first PC had *no* floppies, just a cassette, until I added a floppy at horrendous expense. 80K capacity each... Foolishly, I bought 2. For the longest time, whatever year it was, a pretty good PC seemed to (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) But that was a long time ago :-) Nowadays we *do* have an awful lot of disk space, and don't really have to squeeze the files. OTOH, every 'unnecessary' byte to read will take time, again and again while rendering, unless the rendering program (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I've never really understood that either. Okay, my first computer came with a 16GB hard drive, so yeah, space was pretty cramped then. My second computer came with a 100GB hard drive, but even after I bought that I was still seeing people (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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