Re: Terrabites of storage

whheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wilson Heydt) wrote on 09.04.06 in <IxFuBG.Lr@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

In article <9rThU5tmw-B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Kai Henningsen <kaih=9rThU5tmw-B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Friedman) wrote on 06.04.06 in
<ddfr-764958.11063406042006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
In article <1hddaat.b6vv6wo8e3rmN%usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Catja Pafort) wrote:

Kevin J. Cheek wrote:

OK, so how many of us are saying "What are they going to do with
1TB?" Just like we did with 120GB, and 8GB, and 2GB and . . .

My first computer had 20MB. My next - yay! - 350MB. My next - yay! -
6GB. And every time I filled the hard disk.

Its RAM, not hard drive, but my wife still teases me about my view that
my first Macintosh, with 128 K of memory, clearly had all it would ever
need.

When I saw the first Mac, my then-current machine was an Apple ][+ - 64kB
RAM, I don't remember exactly what I had for drives - probably not yet the
20MB hard drive, but certainly more than one floppy, perhaps already the
larger ones, that would be 2*640kB, I think; 80 column card, that's 720*I
forget the vertical resolution ...

That Mac had 512*367 pixels, 128MB RAM, one 720kB floppy.

David has already addressed the RAM issue... The first Macs had a

.... and of course it's 368, not 367 ...

signel-sdied 400K floppy.

Oh, right. I forgot those. (And later, of course, it was 800.)

MFS, anyway - no real folders (the Finder simulated some). Which was
borderline for floppies, and deadly once they finally had hard disks, so
they finally got their act together and made HFS with real folders.

Whereas ProDos for the Apple ][ had had subdirectories for a long time ...
hmm, didn't the Apple III's SOS use a related disk format? I almost forgot
*that* machine ... almost as exotic as the Lisa.

Looked like a toy to me.

Certainly did.

After I sat down in fromt of one and tried to start an app from a non-

Hmm, my typing and proofreading was definitely sub par on that article.

Kai
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