Rapid once deployed too

[Bob Stockler]

Mike Schwartz wrote (on Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:07:45PM -0500):

[snip]
|      I recall several other "light speed" jumps in technology, too.  Going
| from Profile II on floppies to a Tandy 16 with a hard drive was a lightspeed
| jump of at least 100 times.  It uses to take almost all afternoon to process
| just one metal plating schedule report on the floppies, but that same report
| printed in just a few minutes after we got the hard drive.  (My boss's boss
| thought we would NEVER fill up an 8-meg hard drive, so he didn't splurge and
| get the 15-meg!!!)
[snip]

You bring back some great memories.  I'll never forget how
elated I was when I replaced my 3 floppy drive bay with an
8 Meg hard drive, using a MODEL II running Profile II and
TRSDOS II (and Bob Snapp's mods to BASIC).

Repeated when I moved to a Tandy 6000, Tandy Xenix, and
Profile 16 (?).  The program to move the PROFILE II stuff
to the Tandy 6000 Profile was terrific.

Those were the days . . .

Bob


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