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12 megs in 92? Fancy.

Haha, tell me about it. I think the 4MB upgrade cost around $300 or $400 at the time? Similar to my first 1GB hard disk which came a few years later that cost $500.

I was a little spoiled since my dad worked for a telco, so we tended to have decently modern computers and modems for that reason. I was REALLY fancy when I got 128k ISDN in 1996.

I had 1.1 up /2.2 down mbit Adsl in 1997, was pretty awesome!

Slashdot would fly under Netscape/Opera :p. Under Lynx, it would be like switching off from a bike to an F16.

I worked for an ISP so that my day job was 1mpbs, this was enough to serve 50 concurrent dialup customers back then!

my 1st HDD (1992) was a 20MB one ... 20 - MEGA-BYTES (about $300) and quess that I totally screwed it using the debug -mistyped some params- in order to Low-Level format it, luckily I ve managed to return it back.

I worked in a lab once with a five megabyte hard drive from the 80s being used as a door stop, it was huuge, like the size of a large shoebox. They also had a WORM drive from the 80s that I dug up an ad for and it cost $25k for the writer and it could store 4Gb!!! On what looked like a laser disc in a tray. It’s wild the range of available technology at any given time, depending on how much money you have.

I do remember being very cautions when I first setup linux because things actually cared about the number of blocks, cylinders, etc, and if you got it wrong things broke in confusing ways.

> 12 megs in 92? Fancy.

Absolute luxury! I had 4MB three years later in '95... and in '96 I got the Linux Kernel Internals book which came with a slackware CD, forcing me to purchase my first CDROM drive.

The computer I was using at work in 92 had a whopping 16mb! It was amazing. It might have been a 386 20MHz (before the cache was added to the systems so was very slow compared to a 25Mhz that came out soon afterwards).

Lucky you! In 1991, I moved from a Timex 2068 to PC, while the technical school was still using 8086 and 286 systems.

A 386SX with 20MHz, 40 MB and 2MB, running Windows 3.0.

16MB was indeed another level!

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