framer
Veteran Member
I use black contractor size trash bags,does the job.
I think the last hard drive I spent good money on was around 1996 or 1997. A quantum bigfoot 6.4GB 5.25" hdd. Large capacity but slow, I paid around $335.00 for it. Ever since I have used used hard drives from work or cheapo ones I can find with big discounts. My days of spending real money on a modern computer are far far gone.. why bother at this point?!
Why do you think so? Remember, IBM was the biggest player in the hardware business for professionals back then. Buying an IBM PC was like buying an Apple Mac Pro today. And I would guess a fully equipped Mac Pro is even more expensive compared to income than the IBM PC was in 1981. :DI don't think that younger people can really get a grasp on how expensive this stuff was at one time relative to income.
I spent tons of cash for computer gear in the 1990's, these days I just use older gear you can find cheap or free and it works fine.
I like to quip that if I spent as much money as I did on computer equipment back in the day instead on woodworking tools, not only would I have a better setup than Norm Abrahm, I'd still have all the tools and they'd still all work.
Did you prove him wrong?My dad scolded me when I got a 20MB hard drive, said, "I would never fill it up and was a waste of money".
A single image from my camera is over 40MB's today. It became a race to see who would buy the next bigger drive. I won... Got a metal cabinet covered in old HD magnets.Did you prove him wrong?
CP/M 86 i take it?A single image from my camera is over 40MB's today. It became a race to see who would buy the next bigger drive. I won... Got a metal cabinet covered in old HD magnets.
Turned my early 5150 on today and booted CPM 1.0 cool...