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I bought my first computer, a real powerhouse, Commodore Vic 20. I knew before I brought it home that 4K was not enough RAM so I bought the 16K expansion card, so I was a power user. The expansion card would get HOT so I was a power user, of electricity. I had a cassette drive or storage. When the Commodore 64 came out I grabbed one. And a 300 baud modem that was manual dial. I soon realized the cassette drive was just painfully slow, so I bought a single sided 5.25 inch floppy drive.
But 1984 I bought a Compaq Luggable, because it was on sale. It only had twin floppies, 356K of RAM and DOS 2.1. I soon added the ram to bring it up to the max, 640K and a 10 MB hard drive, and a screaming fast 1200 baud modem.
Over the years I bought a lot of parts and built a lot of computers. I would never believe that someday I would have CPUs like the i8 Intel, and 128 gig of RAM and 6 TB hard drives, and 24 TB RAIDS. The video card I have is a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with a total available graphics memory of 27614 MB or 27gig.
I remember with dial-up we finally got to a point that one MB took "only" 12 minutes. That was fast. I just ran a speed test:
112.6 Mbps download; 8.92 Mbps upload; Latency: 11 ms
It just astonishes me, I love it.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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