>thank goodness it was a while ago and hard drives were measured in
megabits and a fast modem was 9600 baud my first one was 300 baud becker
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How quickly it all changes.  We had a donation to the museum of a 1981 Texas 
Instrument PC, the first on the market, purchased along with some programs 
for $20,000 by a local business couple.   It still boots up and runs 
perfectly.   One of the programs they had with it was a game, a "Flight 
Simulator" with a drawing of a man piloting a Piper Cub on the instruction 
book cover.   Just below the picture, a large bold print message in giant 
letters shouts, "WARNING - Insure that your computer has at least 136 kb of 
memory available before running this program."

Today, a former student sent me pictures of her flat in London, England 
using 15 MB for the "snapshots".   You can count the hairs on her husband's 
bushy head from 30 feet away.

cp in bc

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