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If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive.
You'd have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity.
That's a lot more than I paid for my iPod.

Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to
get to the music on another card, well...


You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having
a PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became
very frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy
disk so the hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I
still have, even though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus
an additional backup drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc.
stuff that I really don't need.

I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out
of space.

Eisboch

My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my
hands on an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive,
but I think it was only 20megs...


Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running?


Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more
than 20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your
jockey shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the
marine barracks.

Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box.

What OS did you run on this Compupro '286?


DR's CP/M-86, licensed to Compupro.

But...there was a bootleg MS OS around, too. It sorta ran an early
version of Flight Simulator. You could boot the MS OS from a floppy.

I don't remember a whole lot more. It wasn't "my" Compupro, it was an
editorial review model that I had for about six months. It was a beast.




I remember a version of Flight Simulator than ran from a floppy on the
pre-286 machines (forget the nomenclature). The "airplane" was nothing
more than a cross and there really wasn't any terrain to speak of.

BTW, the Laser Pal 286 computers I had (the first computers I had in the
company) ran on DOS 4.1 and were loaded with the GeoWorks Ensemble and
Prodigy using a 2400-baud modem.
The GeoWorks Ensemble was a Windows-like program that included a
wordprocesser, a spreadsheet and something else that I can't remember.

Processor speed was either 8 or 12 MHz (no typo), depending on the
position of a "turbo" button.
It seems that 12 MHz was too fast for some of the software of the day.
It had 640k (that's "k") of memory with an additional 384K of
"extended" memory.

Drives: 5 1/4-inch 1.2MB floppy, 3 1/2-inch 1.44MB floppy, 42MB hard

With monitor, it was just under $2000.

Eisboch


I remember Geoworks...at least the name. Not much else.