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The "mini" distros were fun in the time of 128mb usb sticks, where you had to find some tiny distro to fit onto it... But now, i can buy a 128gb usb drive for

• chrismorgan 3y ago
  Strange the things that stick in your memory. APC magazine from mid-2003, Lindows OS Live CD on the cover, and somewhere in the text inside the corresponding article, “—pair it with a cheap-as-chips 128 MB USB disk for $70—” (that’s Australian dollars; and the wording may be inexact). I was always curious what kind of fish-and-chips shops they were going to where chips cost $70. And yeah, now twenty years later you can get a thousand times the capacity for a tenth of the inflation-adjusted price, and it’s maybe 10–100× faster for vaguely comparable units and loads.
  • chrisweekly 3y ago
    "stick in your memory" haha, great word choices in a discussion about memory sticks.