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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Eager wrote:
> 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! :-)
> 

Well, if BSD had the applications that are available for Windows. . . .