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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 schwepes@netaxs.com wrote:
> Ah, the old man remembers the good old days. There was that ten meg
> hardrive that took up the space of a file cabinet dedicated to CD's that
> lived next to the 64K Ram 8088 computer that one wanted to expand to
> 254K. This ten meg hard drive swallowed all of those programs easily
> as they were all on single 360K 5 1/4" floppies. It had acres of room
> that would never be filled. Actually, my drive was never filled. It
> died first.
> Of course, your work will expand to fill whatever you have for it. Jpg
> files have steadily increased in grainularity since they were introduced
> and have been followed by sound and video.
> Just logging on to a website forces your computer to throughput pure
> unadulterated junk that lives on your temp files until you clean them.
> And the junk has increased in bits over time. If you could fore the
> issue and only accept text, you can use a slower device and require less
> memoroy.
> Oh yes, who here is old enough to remember the great speed increase from
> 300 Baud to 2400 at the modem?
Yea, I remember thinking how great 1200 was and all of the hype that surrounded
it. I just recently got rid of my 300 Baud modem. For that matter I do not think
I have any of them except the my courier 56K and a couple of sportsters. All
externals.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
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