10-09-2006, 03:49 AM
[quote BigGuynRusty]I guess both of you are fairly young, in the late 70's, and through most of the 1980's, the Hard Drive was constantly in the sights of RAM drives, Bubble Memory, all sorts of devices, that were less complex, and had no moving parts, and were much faster at reading, and writing data. HD size was growing very slowly, and prices were astronomical, 30 MegaBytes (YES, MegaBytes!), was $800! Then the big drive makers started making huge strides, 750 GigaByte drives are now under $500. For awhile it looked damn shaky for the Hard Drive, it has made a full recovery and is on steroids.
BGnR
Yeah I'm young, having learned how to program in Fortran with punch cards on an IBM 1130 in high school in 1970, and starting to use Mac SEs in 1987. I did some of my best artwork on a Mac IIci with 8 Mb of RAM and an 80 MB hard drive. ;-)
BGnR
Yeah I'm young, having learned how to program in Fortran with punch cards on an IBM 1130 in high school in 1970, and starting to use Mac SEs in 1987. I did some of my best artwork on a Mac IIci with 8 Mb of RAM and an 80 MB hard drive. ;-)