Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

[Dom <toyer@rpdom.net>]

On 23/01/15 19:21, Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:08:56 -0300
> Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 +0000
> > Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Touché. :-(  Yes, that wasn't very nice.  But one can hardly
> > > compare 1985 with now!  Hard drives were in single figure gig sizes.
> >
> > More like meg sizes...
>
> I was thinking that. My ARM-based Archimedes of 1989 had a 40MB drive
> option, and my first PC in 1996 had a 1G drive, which was typical then.
> A fresh Windows 95 installation occupied about 25MB... and RiscOS in
> the 1989 Archimedes was a half-MB ROM. One-second boot.
My Archimedes originally only had the 800MB floppy, then upgraded to a 
20MB HDD and shortly after to a 105MB SCSI HDD.

Then I upgraded my BBC B to a 42MB HDD :)

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Dom