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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/29/07 22:15
In article <mn.eb287d711dbb26b2.1980@nobody.invalid>,
Gene E. Bloch <hamburger@NOT_SPAM.invalid> wrote:
>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.
If we're playing un-upsmanship - my first HD was an 8MB eight-inch
that I got for $1500 as part of an as-is where-is closeout
on Radio Shack Model 16's. It came with Xenix and the kernel
on the 1.3.? was only about 78K long. And I decided to get the
full development system - that was $750. But within 6 months it
had all paid for itself, and I inadvertantly wound up being a
self-employed SA/HW/SW person - all by accident.
>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.
Just fire up 'bc' and be sure of your math. Don't forget to set
the scale :-)
>The performance is improved some too, but not that much :-)
What do you mean NOT THAT MUCH.
I just moved to another terminal session and logged into a system
I'm just building up to replace an aging server. With nothing
extraordinary with a 150Mhz SATA 150GB drive, I just measured
82MB/sec writing and 80MB reading.
My first ESDI drive [ I misjudged how popular SCSI would become]
had a 1.5Mhz interface [most cards were 1MHz] so that meant
on a good day going down hill with the wind at my back I could
get a bit over 1MB transfer rate on a UFS file system. The old
S51 file system from AT&T - which I had on the same drive - was at
least 5 times slower because of the inefficieny of that FS - with
allocating 2 512 byte sectors at a time instead of 8K allocations.
>Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
>letters617blochg3251
>(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
I do not miss the old days - it's too much fun now!
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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