History in the making - was Re: [plug] FIXED! On reboot the whole volume dissappeared!

[Steve Boak]

On Sunday 24 September 2006 00:04, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 08:11 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> > I've now got an
> > 80Gb, a 120Gb, a 250Gb SATA, and another 250Gb sata.... It's nice
> > having lots of space spare :p
>
> It always makes me chuckle to myself when I read such things :-)  Keep
> your statement archived somewhere - just for a laugh.  Sad truth is that
> five years from now you'll look back and laugh at how you could ever
> think that much space was generous ;-)  Remember when we booted and ran
> a complete OS off a single 740KB (or was that 360KB?) floppy and hard
> drives were the stuff of dreams?  The need for space and speed continues
> to grow and grow ;-)
>
> Gavin

I was in PLE on Saturday, looking at 256MB Flash memory for $19, and 
remembering when I bought my first 240MB hard drive for $1400 :-)

Steve

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