Posted by MassiveProng on 01/30/07 01:24

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.

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