A materialistic thing of beauty

[donkey_hokey]

A 500 gig external hard drive for under $150.... all I have to do is plug it in (Firewire! Yippee!), and I'm good to go. One of my current projects is creating a mirror of the entire Gutenberg project, for archival purposes. I hear it will be ~150 gigs. I'm not sure quite yet what I'll use the other 350 gig for, but I know I'll find a way to

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[thewayne]

Heh. The first computer that I owned was a TRS-80 Model 100. I, too, had a cassette drive. I still have that computer: it runs off 4xAA (or a 6-volt lantern battery FOREVER) and I don't recall if it had 24 or 32K ram in it. 8 row by 40 column LCD display.

My first PC was a 386SX/16 with TWO MEG OF RAM! I don't remember how big the HD was, probably 10-20 meg. Hercules monochrome graphics card. And I'm sure it cost quite a packet.

My Macbook Pro has 2gig of ram, a 160gig HD, and is powered by 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. It absolutely kicks ass, and in World of Warcraft, with all the graphics setting turned to max, I still get 50-60 frames per second in the most densely-populated areas.

Yeah, things have changed just a bit. :-)

Many years ago my mom asked me what I thought computers would be like in X years. I told her no idea, except they'd be smaller and faster. Still holds true, along with the best time to buy a computer is six months from now.

I like the concept of the Project Guttenberg mirror. I have GOBS of disk on my web site, I'll have to check into doing that.

[donkey_hokey]

If you want to mirror Gutenberg, here's the info:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Mirroring_How-To

I use Filezilla to point to the FTP site, and log in anonymously.