Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Damned Windows Bloat Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:33:50 +1000 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net BXDeNbVihFA4GEz3z+dyDAp1jdtwQUQvD6nBoIyc0cVIHlloWo Cancel-Lock: sha1:cAB16XLZIktZibUI4/JcwJOmRss= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:12066 On 18/09/2016 8:58 PM, Andy Burns wrote: > Sylvia Else wrote: > >> Paul Sture wrote: >> >>> Rich wrote: >>> >>>> I knew people in 1997 that if you asked them how much 'memory' >>>> their computer contained, the would say 200 Gigabytes >>>> (or whatever was the common hard drive size in 1997). > > Around that time (likely a year later) I was building 'huge" 50GB > fileservers with 4.3GB drives in DEC RA3000 pedestals > >>> I bought my first 2 GB drive* in 1997, and the previous year's >>> laptop had a 250 MB drive. and wondered how on earth I'd fill it. >> >> Way back, a colleague and I both got the opportunity to obtains Windows >> PCs subsidised by our employer. I opted for the 250Mb drive, thinking >> that his choice of the more expensive 380Mb was unnecessary. > > I remember being disappointed to have to "hide" a few MB of my 512MB > drive to fit within the 1024 cylinder limit. > And later, I installed Windows NT 3.1 on it - off floppies. Sylvia.