On Feb 1, 2013, at 13:03 , Charles Robinson wrote: > The first harddrive I had in my OWN computer (not my dad's) was 20Mb. > > Then we upgraded to TWO 20Mb harddrives. > > Then I connected them to an RLL controller (I think?) and some games were > played making them each 30Mb in size. > > Ugh, what a lot of work for such a small amount of storage. > > -Charles
I once had three of Apple's 5 Mb ProFile drives sold for the Apple /// and the Lisa. Fortunately, I was an Apple Developer in those heady days. Only had to pay $1350 for my first one vs. the $3495 list. The second and third I was given by a client who was upgrading to the 10 Mb Profiles. That was plenty of storage. And it allowed you to partition it with a ProDos segment for your Apple IIgs! As usual, a clean and lovely case design from Apple. Wasn't long before the 20SC(SI) came out for use with my Mac 512. Later made myself portable with a hanging backpack style 20 Mb drive mated to my Mac Plus. It sickens me to realize how much money I have spent over the years to try to keep abreast of Apple's hardware march. My 24" iMac (2008) is now getting pretty long in the tooth. I almost replaced it with a newer 27" last month (the time for personal christmas presents). Trying to keep up with it even as a developer (50% off) threw me out of the game by 1995. Joseph McAllister [email protected] It seems that I need to stop my mind running off at the fingertips. — Mike Wilson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
