Subj : Re: Computers
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Spectre
Date : Tue Jul 23 2024 06:35:00

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

Phwoar, you had an 80Mb drive?  The first thing I had came with a 40, thought
it would take forever to fill, coming from a land of 140k floppies.  Of
course it didn't last longer than a few months.. went out and acquired a 60..
but being a PC noob, I ended up with the 40 being IDE and the 60 being MFM...
traded the IDE with a friend for their MFM 40 and went from there...

Spec


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