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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 06/08/07 02:23
Ed Mullen wrote:
> 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.
How about a 20MB Mountain DriveCard! Got one one on a shelf the goes in
an old XT up in the attic, Got a 32MB Seagate MFM around here too, and
to 8088s in the attic one genuine IBM PC and a Visual 30lbs "compact"
with dual floppys and a full 64Kb of RAM!
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Take care,
Jonathan
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