Subj : I remember when: 10MB hdd
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Mon Mar 29 2021 00:26:00

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..

AA>Just 4 digits?  I thought it was a minimum 7 digits since the
  >50's everywhere in Ontario.


Likely the Bell box my phone was (and is) attached to was at least that old
but I guess the network finally outgrew the 4 digit dialing, then later
outgrew the 7 digit.

AA>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 never got around to trying out tape backups. The first back-ups I got into,
I paid a small fortune for a CD Burner and about $10 each for blank disks.
Recently I paid $9.99 for 50 blank DVD disks..    B)

AA>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.

It sounds like you may have the same 'problem' I have. I tend to buy extras of
a lot of hardware (and blank disks) in case I need them. I have things like
Windows 98 era motherboards that are brand new, and cost quite a bit at the
time, but will likely never be used now. New keyboards they don't even make
adapters to USB for anymore, not to mention drawers and boxes full of modems
and joy sticks and memory chips and old printers and scanners and 6 or 7 old
computers (i.e. a still working Laptop running Windows 3.1 on 2 meg of Ram).
It will break my heart but, some day, I'm going to have to 'clean house'..

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