Subj : Re: 2017/2018 PC to modernize it.
To   : Spectre
From : Avon
Date : Sun Nov 20 2022 09:06:42

On 19 Nov 2022 at 07:54p, Spectre pondered and said...
 
 Sp>  At> I thought a 20 megabyte hard drive for my Tandy was "big" at the time
 Sp> 
 Sp> First HD I had was with the 286 I got for the BBS, a 40Mb job.  It seemed
 Sp> huge at the time, and being DOS 3.3 it was a 30 and 10Mb partition setup.
 Sp> Prior to this I'd only ever had 140k or 800k floppies.

I think my first purchased PC had a whopping 20 megabyte HDD in it, and I recall spending a lot of coin on it at the time. I also remember being focused on trying to get the latest and greatest modem for the computer so that I could call out (and allow others to call my Renegade BBS) at speed.

The fun was listening to the incoming calls and figuring out who had faster modems at the time.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz 

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