Subj : Bluetooth Keyboard
To   : Ed Vance
From : Barry Martin
Date : Thu Sep 19 2024 07:04:00


Hi Ed!

 > <Visualizing Clippy wielding a machete, hacking through strings of text>

 > Yes, and there's a small problem with that: the hard drive (OK: storage
 > media) is partitioned into blocks of certain sizes -- in the old-old
 > days 1024 bytes.  1023 bytes of data, great!  Use 1025, just used two
 > blocks and 99% of that second block is empty.  I've always stored a lot
 > of potentially useful information on my computer just so I could have it
 > handy.  With a 20 MB hard drive I wanted to maximize that capacity so
 > would spend time editing files to fit in that 1023 parameter. ...It
 > seemed to work, but probably in the long term not worth the time and
 > effort.  And of course now a TB of starage - no problem!


 EV> In 1994 Computer Sellers put 120MB or 220MB HDD's in the PCs they
 EV> sold.
 EV> Me, I asked the fellow who built a 486DX33 for me to put a 330MB
 EV> HDD in the
 EV> Tower case for me
 
My first computer was a DEC Rainbow 100: a 1 MB hard drive for it would 
have cost around $1000.

My first XT had a 20 MB hard drive.

My second XT had a 40 MB hard drive.

I had networked the two XTs so had a combined capacity of 60 MB.

Now, the video cards around here the smallest capacity is 512 MB!


 EV> Later when I got a Dial Up account with a local ISP the CD they
 EV> supplied had
 EV> Internet Explorer.
 EV> I used IE to d/l Netscape Navigator (Communicator?).

May as well use what you prefer!  As for CDs, I remember received tons 
of AOL CDs.  Kept the metal boxes and used a few to ship the occasional 
DVD to Dad.  


 EV> After a while of using either browser I found out Netscape
 EV> Bookmarks were put
 EV> in the HDD until the Sector/Cluster was full before opening
 EV> another space.
 EV> IE used individual HDD spaces for EACH bookmark.
 EV> To my way of thinking Bookmarks is the lifeblood for Internet
 EV> use.
 EV> Plus IE was eating up precious HDD space.
 EV> After learning that I used Netscape only.

Now that indivual bookmark file would not have been so bad but back then
should have been High Treason to waster drive space like that!



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