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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/30/07 16:05
In article <1g7tr2tpj0f036beg62u486fdhtb2k8qjn@4ax.com>,
MassiveProng <MasiveProng@yourhiney.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:28:09 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
><spamfree@nobody.invalid> Gave us:
>
>>On 1/29/2007, Bill Vermillion posted this:
>>
>><Paper Reduction Activity>
>>
>>> Pushing Usenet news around - primarily by UUCP over phones - except
>>> for two large local engineering groups who had a 56 line - most of
>>> us in the Orlando area moved to Telebit modems that gave us
>>> 18Kbit/sec transfer rates [later about 22Kb] long before the
>>> first 9600 bps modem was available for sale. Since we all had
>>> registered UUCP domain names we got them at 1/2 price at $650 each.
>>>
>>> The next year I saw my first 9600 BPS modem. From BT [British
>>> Telecom] . $5000 US.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>
>>Ouch.
>>
>>Just yesterday, reading the Sunday paper ads, I noticed a 300GB hard
>>drive for $80, so in a fit of reminiscence I compared its $/MB to my
>>first hard drive: 10 MB, $800.
>>
>>I came up with a factor 3,000,000, but then I checked my work, and
>>realized it was *only* 300,000 (that's the problem with computing in my
>>head). This much change in maybe 22 or 24 years.
>>
>>The performance is improved some too, but not that much :-)
>
>
> Do not do a disk check on your C drive on an XT!
> At least not if you planned on working on it that day.
I gave us MS for all but a few things back in 1983 when I moved
the the *n*x world. I use XP for a couple of things that only work
there - such as the software for an external video device - things
like that.
The MS file systems were a pain to recover. But it was amazing
what you could do with the correct tools.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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