Subj : Re: Computers
To   : Bf2K+
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Jul 24 2024 12:01:56

  Re: Re: Computers
  By: Bf2K+ to Spectre on Wed Jul 24 2024 10:15 am

 Bf> THe first hard drive I ahd on my Atari 8-bit BBS was 5mb.  I remember
 Bf> thinking I would never fill that up... :)

:)  My first computer was a hand-me-down 286 PC, in 1992.  It had a 10MB hard drive in it, and after a short while I started to find it wasn't difficult to fill it.  With PC games and utilities etc. being in zip files that could be around 500KB or 1MB or so, downloading several of those, unzipping them and installing them could easily take up the hard drive space I had.  And I think running Windows was difficult due to the drive space it took.  I think I ran Windows 3.1 a bit on that PC, and I must have had a bigger hard drive by then, but I don't remember specifically what I had or when I got one.  I did get the motherboard & CPU upgraded to a 386SX-16 at some point, and maybe that's when I was running Windows..  Maybe at that point I got a bigger hard drive. I remember having (I think) a 40MB (or so) hard drive at some point.

Nightfox
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