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Originally Posted by Dennis
You must be a young whippersnapper Roger – I remember using punch cards and having to compile programs overnight in batch, as well as 8” floppy discs on an IBM System36 mid-range computer! LOL!
Cheers
Dennis
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Originally Posted by avandonk
In 1968 my PDP 8 had 2k of memory. We quickly up graded to 4k then would you believe 32k! Oh such joy and power! Whats a hard drive?
We were far more cunning to keep the code very slim as we had to.
Bert
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Originally Posted by leon
We started with the Comondore 64 back in the old days, actually it belonged to my some, now that was some real technology in those days. 
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My goodness, I am feeling young at 50 (compared to some of you guys)
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Originally Posted by AlexN
I have 3Tb in my desktop, 160gb in my webserver, 60gb in my notebook, 50gb in my gateway and a WD 1tb NAS...
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Yeah, it's a worry - the more storage I get, the more I store
- life was much simpler with floppy disks
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Originally Posted by g__day
Being on my 15 custom built PC, I have about 8 active round the house plus a NAS - so about 300GB on a normal node, same on the NAS and 700 on my personal PC - it all adds up, and is very cheap nowadays.
When I started a 5MB Winchester cost $5,000 exc tax and you had to write your own device driver!
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Gee, we've come so far eh! HD space is so cheap, I run two 500 gb drives (replicated) to store my photos but I still burn to DVD.........
Peter