Subj : Re: Early PCs
To   : Spectre
From : AKAcastor
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 14:44:26

 S> We had people here trying to flog systems with "160Mb" 
 S> HDs in them, which for
 S> the most part turned out to be 80Mb MFM's that had compression added. Back
 S> when 160Mb was still a large drive..

There definitely were plenty of PC sellers from the school of used car sales in those times!  A heyday for that type.

The 'big' disks, due to compression, didn't work out so well for making more space for BBS file downloads!  (amongst other issues, of course)

Disk compression was rather ... underwhelming ... when storing a bunch of .ZIP files.  :)

Honestly though, the times I used DriveSpace and it didn't destroy all my data, it did seem like magic - more disk space for FREE!


Chris/akacastor

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