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In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> 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.
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> 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...
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> /Tore
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 always cost 3000 USD... I think that's going down, at last.
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| (...) Ooooh - this can be a fun game. :-) One of my first (sorry, don't remember the order of them) was a computer I built myself. I ordered the 3-chip set from Intel (8080, the clock chip and the buffer chip), then used a bunch of SRAMS (no way (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek (...) Well, when I was young, we didn't have fancy-schmancy comPUters. We had to use rocks for all of our computations. And it took all day to collect enough rocks to multiply 12x12 and our hands would get (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) 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 (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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