[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bob Eager]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:33:12 UTC, "Richard B. Gilbert" 
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hey, when you come out of the dark ages, as I do, it's a miracle of 
> modern technology.  You learn to live with the quirks and problems 
> because it's so much better than it was a few years ago.  I can remember 
> when a 5 MB hard disk, 2.5MB fixed and 2.5MB removable, weighed more 
> than I do!

I agree. My dark ages started with 2MB disks that were heavier than 
me...!

> It was only a couple of years later that our secretary's PC was equipped 
> with a 5-1/4 inch 5MB disk.

That was about 12 years later for me...that would be 1982.

> Now I can carry a few terabytes around with me.  A couple of times a 
> year, I tell my PC to defrag its disk, go to bed and stack Z's for a few 
> hours and it's done.

Same here, except with BSD I don't do the defrag! :-)

-- 
Bob Eager