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Post #12 by Blessed Cheesemaker
Source Forum350mb dosent go very far! — #12
CategoryHardware
Post DateSat, 15 Sep 2007 - 13:11
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/350mb-dosent-go-very-far.9837/
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Well, I ran out of room on my quadra 800s HD. Downladed 20 MP3s and it turnes full. Any sugestions on a good 1GB SCSI hard drive?
When I bought my first Macintosh, I had to make do with only a 40MB hard drive. I was never able to fill it up though. Macintosh software was hard to come by in my area. And the little compact Macintosh with its black and white screen couldn't run much of the software I was able to find. I remember running into dialog boxes quite frequently with the cursed reminder that "this software requires a resolution of 640 by 480" or "this software requires the monitor to be set to 256 colors". None of these requirements could be satisfied on the compact Macintosh.

My next Macintosh was a compact with a 640 by 480 screen that could do 16-bit color. I no longer had the problem of inadequate screen resolution or color depth. Instead, I was now faced with having a woefully inadequate hard drive. You see, my second Macintosh had only a 160MB drive. So it was constantly full because I could now use all of that software that had been previously unuseable.

Yeah, life sucked as a Mac user.
LOL...my first Mac was a 512k back in '85. With my experience with this, and my TRS-80, when I bought my next Mac (a Classic II), I knew I wanted the most RAM possible (4MB), but when I saw the choices of a 40MB or 80MB drive, I was there like, "Geez, I'll never fill up a 40MB hard drive."

Well...I started having all the problems pee-air described above...and then when I bought my Performa 6116, with a 700 MB drive...well, let's just say that one copy of Marathon and one copy of Dark Forces, and CodeWarrior, and...I was screwed...

Ahh, the good old days!

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