Re: [Nolug] Hard disks

From: LinuxLaw <linuxlaw_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:33:31 -0600
Message-ID: <3FA2AAFB.6080208@bellsouth.net>

I'm still partial to the Texas Instrument's TI-99-4a-plus...cassette
storage...programming my own games in BASIC...and an excellent and very
original 3D RPG: Tunnels of Doom! I've still got mine somewhere.

Ron Johnson wrote:

>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.
>
>__________________________________
>Do you Yahoo!?
>Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears
>http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/
>___________________
>Nolug mailing list
>nolug@nolug.org
>
>
>

___________________
Nolug mailing list
nolug@nolug.org
Received on 10/31/03

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : 12/19/08 EST