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Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail



On Friday 23 January 2015 15:41:06 Ric Moore did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 01/23/2015 03:09 PM, Dom wrote:
> > 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:
> >>>> Touchأ©. :-(  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 :)
> 
> Online Uncle Al once wrote that Canada was where all the 40 meg hard
> drives went. :) Ric

I don't recall that I ever had the experience of reading his output, Ric.  
How far back up the log was that?

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