On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 10:44 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Blimey you guys are greedy, when I was a lad we used to have > to get up > half an hour before we went to bed *and* get by on 32Mb > running System > V. My Unix desktop had two 16Mb cards that cost (wait for it) > $1600 > each, I.E $100/Mb. Mind you that was only shortly after 80Mb > disks for > Vax systems used to be shipped from the States in a plywood > box 3'x2'x2' > (note: 80*M*byte!). We thought 32Mb of RAM was outrageously > generous > especially when others thought 640K ought to be enough for > anybody. > > Sigh I miss the bad<del><del><del>good old days. ;-)
Sheeer luxary ... When I was a lad (this is cross my heart true) my first unix box was a pdp-11 with 100K ram and a 15M hard disk that dimmed the lights when you powered on. Oh a 1M ram card cost $11 000 James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
