Blow me!!

[Eddy Matthews]

I've just done a full backup of the website, and for the first time we've exceeded 2GB of data (2.351GB to be exact). I thought it was taking a long time, even with a 10Mbs broadband connection!

So for anyone that wants to download everything we have online, now you know how much stuff your going to have to grab!!

[derekwarner_decoy]

Well Hi PD's...Eddy....in OZ due to the distance,,,,I have just installed a Western Digital 1TB external backup drive ...seems simple .....possiby like the owner/driver 

[bogstandard]

Oh! thats where it went.

I threw that away into the wheelie bin a few weeks ago 

I used to service the Maxtor cleanroom production line in the UK many years ago.

A big full height one was 470MB unformatted capacity, and in those days we thought no-one would ever be able to fill it, (and a price of about £1500, about the same sort of price as a car)
I was also involved in the development of the worlds first 3 1/2" hard drive (the forerunner of what you are fitting now), 53MB unformatted with 18ms access time.
They've come a long way in twenty odd years.
Not even a CD's worth now.

John

[Eddy Matthews]

I'm showing my age now, but I started in computers way before IBM ever produced the first PC that we all now use....

I remember using CP/M machines which had a massize 512Kb of memory, 160Kb 5.25" floppy disks, and 5Mb of hard drive space - VERY advanced at the time, but now it just sounds silly.... I recall changing from CP/M to MsDos and it took an age to get used to silly changes, even though MsDOS was derived from CP/M. For example, the "Copy" command was reversed - Instead of Copy <to> <from> as you did in CP/M, allof a sudden it became Copy <from> <to>..... Way before graphical interfaces had even been thought of!!

Then came the multitude of Hard drive format - we had MFM, RLL, ESDI, SCSI etc etc.... I remember buying two 330Mb ESDI hard drives which cost me almost £1500!! And that was 20 years ago!

Same thing happend with modems, my first was a split baud rate 300/75bps unit - Yes BITS per second, not MEGABITS! Eventually the 14K4 modem came out and I spent £800 buying one - It was obsolete within 6 months!

If I'd saved all the money I've spent on computers over the years I could have bought a house!!! And no, I'm NOT kidding!