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[telophase]

I was reminded today that the first computer I bought myself (as opposed to being a hand-me-down from my parents) had a whole 110MB memory, when Toby wandered in to tell me his plan for getting a backup drive and said "I don't need much space. A terabyte is fine."

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[hunningham]

Yes. I remember (back in early 90s) having my work computer upgraded from 8 mbytes of memory to 32, and colleagues talked about it for days. Now ... I'm living in the future.

[telophase]

It's been said so often it's a cliche now, but my PHONE has more storage space and computing power than any computer I had until 2002 or so!

[torachan]

LOL Yeah. I remember when I was, eh, I guess middle school age or so and my friend's family had a computer and they got a hard drive installed and we were all confused about how to play games now, since we didn't have to insert the disks. XD (At one point I got angry because we couldn't find how to access the game we wanted (Jeopardy!) and was like "who needs a hard drive anyway!?")

[telophase]

Hee! We had two disk drives, and I remember playing games by swapping disks in and out and wishing there were some way not to have to do that. Dad got a ...either 386 or 486PC with one, but I didn't get to use that one. Once he bought a Mac II, I started using that one for games and writing papers in high school and such.

I had a friend that had a TRS-80 that used a tape recorder as a drive. We'd hook it up to the TV in the living room and play Infocom games on it. :D

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

My first computer had 512K.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The first Apple we had was an Apple II+. Dad had a thing he built from a kit that ran on Pascal before that, but I have no idea about any of its specs.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

My father informed me, when he bought my first computer for me after graduating high school, that a 30 MB hard drive would be "all the storage space I would ever need."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I thought that 100MB was going to be way more than I'd ever need, and within two years it was nowhere near enough. Now, I've even got individual art pieces that are larger than the entire drive of that computer.