Well as long as we're reminiscing ... I got my first Intel PC in 1986 or 1987.
It had a 4.8MHz processor and 1 MB of RAM. It had a 5.25" floppy with 750Kb capacity and a 20Mb Hard Drive at 2400RPM that was the size of a shoebox and weighed about 8 or 9 pounds. I tried installing 123 on it but after 5 hours gave up. One day I was visiting Software Boutique and saw Windows 2.1 it looked interesting so I bought it. I also bought Excel 2.0. To make a long story short, I had Windows and Excel up and running in about 40 minutes. After an hour, I had a spreadsheet setup for my checkbook. Excel came on a couple of floppies back then. Today it comes on a CD runs at 3GHz on my P-4. It executes more code during program load than there was in all of Windows and Excel way back when. And my checkbook spreadsheet runs almost as fast as it did in 1988. What is wrong with this picture? HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
