[OT] One terabyte drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:26:47PM -0400, Alex Beamish wrote:
> Not quite in the same league, but in the early 90's I spent over $200
> to upgrade my 4M 486/66 system to 8M (so, an additional 4M) so it
> would run dBase IV under DOS for a client project (anyone remember
> extended memory?). I earned $250 on the project which paid for the
> extra memory, and also allowed me to run OS/2 faster, so that worked
> out.

My 486/66 started life with 16M when my dad bought it for CAD.  It now
has 48M and still runs nicely as a firewall machine.  At university i
even ran X on it all the time and often with a remote X session on a
sun3/50 as well.

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Len Sorensen
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