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To: Kip Russell

>>My first hard drive had a capacity of 20 megs. We are rapidly approaching the point where an inexpensive external hard drive will store a million times that much.<<

The first HD I had was 5MB Winchester. It was better than the 8” floppies we had to carefully store.

And we had to write our programs in Z80 ASM

AND WE LIKED IT!!!


11 posted on 07/17/2013 9:23:40 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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To: freedumb2003

LOL!


18 posted on 07/17/2013 9:33:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: freedumb2003

+1 for use of the word Winchester.


31 posted on 07/17/2013 10:20:43 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)
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