Subj : Re: Computers
To   : Spectre
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Jul 22 2024 06:53:00

-=> Spectre wrote to tenser <=-

 Sp> Its kind of weird in a way, a lot of stuff was optimised for slow speed
 Sp> transmission, 2400bps or so.. so things tended to be fairly small, then
 Sp> you'd compress it to get it down further...

 Hard drive space was at a premium, too - I remember people switching
 archivers to ARJ when it came out for a single-digit improvement over
 PKZIP. Then, some people liked LHArc. Some people said to hell with it
 and stuck with ARC. Back then, it made a material difference when your
 perimary storage was an 80mb hard drive.




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