Subj : I remember when: 10MB hdd, 7-digit phone #s
To   : Rob Mccart
From : August Abolins
Date : Sat Mar 27 2021 20:04:00

Hello Rob!

** On Saturday 27.03.21 - 00:40, you wrote to me:

 RM> ..It also wasn't until a few years after I got here that,
 RM> on local calls, we had to dial more than 4 digits. These
 RM> days a local call requires 10 digits..

Just 4 digits?  I thought it was a minimum 7 digits since the  
50's everywhere in Ontario.  I still remember the phone number  
my family had when we lived in Toronto in the 60s.

 RM> I remember when a 10 MEGAbyte hard drive was Huge..
 RM> Who'd ever need anything bigger than that ?     B)

I used an external Jumbo 250 tape system for backups.  A 100MB  
tape seemed to take a long time to back up a modest 30MB drive.

I think I gave up on the external unit after a while, but I  
still have a brand new internal model (still sealed and shrink- 
wrapped) and a bunch of tapes - some used, and some completely  
new.

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  ../|ug

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