how times have changed

[Don Fernando]

Originally Posted by macpappy

I was going through some old boxes in a closet today. (Actually, my wife was).
She hands me a small box and asks, "Are these any good?"

It was a internal hard drive that I had salvaged from a computer with a blown motherboard about 6 or 7 years ago. How big was it? 1.2 GB. Remember when those used to be big?

back in 1993 I bought my first real pc (I had a C64 for years before that). A 486 with 540mb harddrive and 8mb memory, boy, that was hot at the time and would last me for years