Longshadow wrote:
I went to a 20MB HD at home in the mid 80s. thought I'd never fill that.
I probably replaced the computer before I filled it.
Yep. Today it could easily be a 20 Terabyte conventional drive and cost well under $400.
It's an exciting time to buy a computer.
ecar
Loc: Oregon, USA
BBurns wrote:
There are a bunch of us out here that will know this one.
And there will be some younger up-starts who are clueless.
My first was win95 v-1
Win 98 v-1 was after I had the full version of win95 installed. And then, Win98 v-2 was the best of the 98's.
But my all time favorite was XP.
ecar
Loc: Oregon, USA
tokeefe1554 wrote:
Yeah, I'm old enough that I remember 3.1 and 95. And I'm 72.
Tim
yeah, me too.
I wasn't until Win95 that the computers did enough to make me want one. Win 3.1 and the DOS machine's didn't do enough to make me want them, although we used a 3.1 machine at work, using wordperfect for reports, and they worked fine for reports.
Yep, I'm that old. I hearken back to the days of DOS.
I harken back to programming on punch cards on a tape OS on mainframes. The first mainframe I worked on had 16k, thus why I wrote in Assembler.
dhspeck wrote:
Yep, I'm that old. I hearken back to the days of DOS.
DOS came out nine years after I started learning programming...
Longshadow wrote:
I went to a 20MB HD at home in the mid 80s. thought I'd never fill that.
I probably replaced the computer before I filled it.
I did the same thing. I paid AUD$750 (though the first IBM 5MB was AUD$5,000 so that was relatively cheap).
So at AUD$750 for 20MB that's AUD$37.50/MB
At that price a 4TB HDD would cost a staggering AUD$157,286,400...in fact they cost AUD$149 (and that's in today's dollars) or 3.552436828613281e-5 /MB.
These are still some bargains to be had!
twosummers
Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England
Crikey! - I'm pre-Windows. My first computer was an Olivetti M? I can't remember - it was but like a tank and came with PC-DOS which I grew up with and managed to write usable programs in power BASIC - which I think I could compile into an EXE. Oh the the days of config.sys and autoexec.bat. Does anyone remember edlin? Jeez
I started learning programing in 1978.
twosummers wrote:
Crikey! - I'm pre-Windows. My first computer was an Olivetti M? I can't remember - it was but like a tank and came with PC-DOS which I grew up with and managed to write usable programs in power BASIC - which I think I could compile into an EXE. Oh the the days of config.sys and autoexec.bat. Does anyone remember edlin? Jeez
Wow. I remember edlin. Don't
remember using it much though.
THAT was a while back!!!
Longshadow wrote:
Wow. I remember edlin. Don't remember using it much though.
THAT was a while back!!!
Yeah I used it but it's a pain. When DOS put the text editor edit in DOS 5.0 it was a very good thing. I would say DOS 5.0 was the best upgrade. The newer version didn't bring anything important.
BebuLamar wrote:
Yeah I used it but it's a pain. When DOS put the text editor edit in DOS 5.0 it was a very good thing. I would say DOS 5.0 was the best upgrade. The newer version didn't bring anything important.
Editors have come a LONG way since then.
Like Spider Pad and Komodo, which I use for HTML coding.
Then there is MS Word.....
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