[angry-sw-dev]

It's amazing how fast capacity and pricing changed back then, and it still happens today.

I remember my first PC clone in 1992 it was a white box with a 40MB hard disk and 2MB of RAM, within 6 months or so I spent $200 on two more 1MB 70ns SIMMs.

Our high school had a small lab running Mac IIci's with 8MB of RAM and those things were probably $8K each with display, it was a big deal to get time on them. We had more physical space than money, so we had an IBM PS/1 lab, a couple of ][e labs, and my personal favorite was a networked TRS-80 Model 3 lab where the master machine had a 10MB hard disk. Those things were beasts -- we used to play some sort of a networked crossword puzzle game while wearing an onion tied to our belts (which was the style at the time). Give me 3 B's for a quarter you'd say...

[jacobush]

Onion?!

[cesarb]

AFAIK, "I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time" is a Simpsons reference.

[A_Parr]

They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

[IntelMiner]

Gimme five bees for a quarter!