OT: computer nostalgia (was RE: Rapid once deployed too)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Mike Schwartz (PC Support) (Thu, 4 May 2006 23:07:45 -0500):
[...]
>      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!!!)
[...]

When I recently got a new system with Windows XP preloaded, there was
already enough pre-installed software on the system to fill over 500
of those 8-meg drives.  And it came with 2,000 times the memory, a
CPU clock speed about 400 times that of the Tandy 6000.  (Of course,
the CPU can do a lot more than 400 times the work in the same time.)

(This assumes that my memory of it having 512K memory and 8MHz CPU is
accurate, of course.)

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