Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
> ::Can anybody tell me what the first external hard drive for a Macintosh was?
> ::I am trying desperately to remember who made it and how much memory it had
> ::and how much it cost. I remember that it was very big and very expensive.
> ::Any insight would be tremendously appreciated...
>
> My buddy's Mac Plus had a CMB or some such hard disk (30MB). And it was
> *expensive*, yes. But we had *no idea* how we would use *so much* space! ;-)
>
> If you'll excuse me, I have a 170K Commodore disk to archive on my 7.2GB
> work hard drive. The Commodore disk is only half full, but the project on it
> is completed. Just thought I'd editorialise a bit. :-)
Well, in the tree where I've got a gagload (all that I've found) of
source code, binaries, etc. of material for the TRS-80 1/3/4 line
and the Color Computer line, plus all of the Caldera CP/M material,
I'm using less than 100Mb. And a _lot_ of material is duplicated,
haven't had the time to sort everything out. Oh yeah, all of the
Orchestra 80 and descendents stuff is in that tree, as are all of
the emulators and such for TRS-80 and CoCo (for many machines/OSs)
and several tons of message bases related to all of the above. I
had to leave a Win95 partition and install four distributions of
Linux to justify that 8Gb drive to mi esposa -- of course, most of
the space is naturally being used to hold pornography from the
Internet, since it was being wasted otherwise.
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Received on Fri Nov 20 1998 - 16:55:19 GMT