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As I am downloading BIAB 2010 and looking at the massive files sizes a thought came across to me, does anyone remember the days of hard disks that were measured in MegaBytes? Or, how you contemplated the worth of installing a program on your computer that was larger than 10MB?
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Back in the mid 1980's I used to sell 10meg drives foe $1000. That's when the US $$$ was worth a whole lot more than today. Wyndham
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Yeah well, I remember the old IBM AT that I once had ... actually kept it around for many years as I moved up in "technology". That old machine just had two floppy drives, if I remember correctly. And - memory??? Good grief, I can't even remember.... LOL! (Pun intended). Started out with the Commodore 64, way back in Germany! Good times!!! HEH!!!
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Wow. I traded a beautiful Takamine 12-string for a Zenith/Olivetti XT with a 20 Mb drive and DOS 3.2. The other guy got the better end of the deal moneywise, but it was the beginning of the education that led me to become a computer musician. I miss the guitar, but it was worth it.
I've got a box of drives in the 50-100 Mb range with old MIDI files on them from Win 3.1/95 days (and BIAB 7, which came on two floppies. I also have boxes and boxes of floppies with old software . . .). Need to get an IDE/USB case so I can get some of that stuff off and resurrect it.
I remember dreaming of recording to disk and of virtual effects simulators. ("Gee, if there was only a way to get audio into my PC.") That's why I still have the four-track RTR machine and the distortion stomp boxes. Maybe if I'd had an Apple II-e . . .
We've come a very long way in a very short time, haven't we?
R.
"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
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Wow, do I ever! We started with a IBM 5150...64k of memory, 2 5 1/4" REAL floppy drives, green monochrome screen........ When we got a 386 with 128mb of memory & 512mb HDDI was in HEAVEN!  But I do have to say this....it sure seems like everything ran a lot faster on less, and for certain things, like word processing & midi, it still seems to have ran a lot faster.... 
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unlike the old DOS days, programmers seem disinterested in file size so tend to favor gluttonous 'eye candy.' i marvel at what a dos programmer could squeeze onto a 5-1/4 inch floppy. but then, i even remember wire coat hangers that were used for EVERYTHING!
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Sure I remember.
I started using computers in the 1960s, during the punch card era. Our high school's computer was a terminal to Dartmouth, 150 miles away. I also got to test one of the very first pocket calculators at Wang Labs in Boston.
The first personal computer I bought in 1977 had a cassette deck for storage. It was a great day when floppy disks were added to the product line, then 10 Mb hard drives. A RAM upgrade from 4K to 16K was $300, and we were happy to pay it.
In the late 1970s, I was in charge of microcomputer sales for Northeastern New York for Tandy Corp. It was the wild west, really, for personal computers.
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My computer journey was like most of your:
1. a Commodore 64 with a tape drive (5 mins to load a program.
2. a bondwell CPM80 machine with 2 - 5 1/4 floppies (CPM 80 was before Dos)
3. a epson CPM 80 machine with 1 - 5 1/4 floppy and one 10 meg hard drive.
3. a custom built clone with a 20 meg drive and 1 5 - 1/4 floppy ($1,850)
4. a custom built clone with a 30 meg drive ($2,400)
5. a 286 laptop with a 20 meg drive and one 3 1/2 floppy
6. a 386 clone 40 meg drive
7. a 486 clone etc and again and again with the upgrades until now there are computers every where!
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Hard drives have to be larger because increasingly software is large, bloated, and inefficient, not to mention s-l-o-w.
Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"
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I remember the neighborhood bulletin boards and doing RTTY at 300 baud on my Radio Shack color computer.
Don S.
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My 1st computer was an Adam made by the toy company Coleco. I remember when the printer was operating it would sound like gun shots as it would print each character with about a 1/4 second delay inbetween strikes.
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Man I thought it was a gem!
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I remember the neighborhood bulletin boards and doing RTTY at 300 baud on my Radio Shack color computer.
Don S.
Yep, those were the good ol' days
Don't forget tape storage  NO harddrives back then 
Beep...............beep........beep
When you are at the checkout line and they ask if you found everything say "Why, are you hiding stuff?"
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I remember the neighborhood bulletin boards and doing RTTY at 300 baud on my Radio Shack color computer.
Don S.
Yep, those were the good ol' days
Don't forget tape storage NO harddrives back then
Beep...............beep........beep
Totally forgot about my BBS days. I actually ran one in the mid 80's, using a BBS software called "Opus".
Man, back come the memories! LOL!
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The C-64 was great. It was a microprocessor lab in a box.
Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"
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I used to write graphics code for HUDs. We would do whatever would we could reduce even a single clock cycle.
Like the man said, "ain't that a kick in the head!"
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