Subj : Re: Bluetooth Keyboard To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Fri Sep 20 2024 09:06:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ed! > My first computer was a DEC Rainbow 100: a 1 MB hard drive for it would > have cost around $1000. My high school had an IBM1620 with a... 5MB hard drive... the size of a washing machine. You could have chiseled the bits on stone tablets in less room, and with less noise.... and possibly faster! Could not boot from it and it would intermittently decide to not work. I vaguely recall we got it as a donation rather well used, but new it cost $25,000 !!! > 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. Climbing the network to data heaven! > Now, the video cards around here the smallest capacity is 512 MB! Not to mention all the CPU cycles! My 286 12MHz used to have bragging rights! > 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! At the time Microsoft did not understand the concept of databases for external data... þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .