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Posted by Ed Mullen on 06/08/07 00:00
dorayme wrote:
> In article <m2ps47r0sq.fsf@local.wv-www.com>,
> Sherm Pendley <spamtrap@dot-app.org> wrote:
>
>> Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> writes:
>>
>>> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>>>> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This system has three hard drives, the oldest of which is a geriatric 7.
>>>> Geriatric 7? What's a seven? IS this some Mac thing?
>>> I think she means 7 years old. ;) In PC terms, that is pretty old.
>> Or maybe 7 GB. That'd be pretty old too...
>>
>> sherm--
>
> I still own or have owned 400MB, 1GB, 2GB, 3GB (I'm sort of sure
> about this 3), 4GB and then 9G and 18G. All SCSI from older Macs.
> Never seen a 7GB?
>
You haven't lived (or have no room to brag) unless you've owned a 15 Mb
hard drive (circa 1987) that was housed in an enclosure larger than the
largest of today's modern tower systems and that cost several thousand
(that's the closest I can come to accuracy without searching my price
list archives) US dollars. No, I'm not as old as dirt: It just seems
that way because I was in a business area that was "bleeding edge."
No matter. Still, us "old farts" technology-wise will always have great
"war stories" to tell.
Heck, before that (circa 1986) I remember visiting an IBM facility (my
wife just retired after 24 years as an exec with IBM) back in the 80s
and learning about DASD (Daz-dee) storage. Wow! Attached storage for
main frames and servers (a very new concept back then) that was sold in
about 6 Gigabyte increments. Very large, needed to be housed in a data
center configuration (clean and cooled). And 6 Gb back then (even at
tens of thousands of dollars) was considered to be very bleeding-edge.
Now, I have 4 computers in my house, on a wired LAN with wireless access
points (multiple) and a total of (adding quickly now) about a half a
terabyte of disk storage, and that's all online, R/W, hard disk space,
not including any DVD or CD-ROM backups.
Now here's the sobering thought (which I know full well): It could all
fail tomorrow. And then it's all about "How good are my backups?"
--
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