Re: [Nolug] Hard disks

Greetings from Texas,

Hard drives??? How about storing information on cassette tapes? Or only
having 3k of memory and not 6 meg. We are definitely spoiled today.

The first computer I owned was a Commodore Vic-20. That was a step up from
the terminal we used at school that used paper and could make a bell sound.
The vic had color, and sound. I had got tired of having to reenter all the
code for the programs I have written. That first tape drive cost $100.
That was in early 80's dollars while I was in middle school. I did hate
those dreaded out of memory error messages.

Thanks,

Jonathan Hutchins
CEO
Integral Security Inc.
(254) 541-4225
jhutchins@integralsecurity.com
www.integralsecurity.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Johnson" <ronjohnsonjr@yahoo.com>
To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:17 AM
Subject: [Nolug] Hard disks

> Ok,
>
> Who here remembers when hard disks were measured in dollars per
> megabyte? How about hundreds of dollars per megabyte? Joey and I
> are old enough. Scott? Who else?
>
> Machines are so fast today, and yet, in the early 80s, IBM was able
> to build a system with 1.9 MIPS & 6MB RAM that delivered sub-second
> response time to 70 on-line users.
>
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