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When I was a kid I helped setting up the computers for my father's small business. The disks did fill up because of documents. I think he counts as people too
by ithkuil 3y ago
When I was a kid I helped setting up the computers for my father's small business. The disks did fill up because of documents. I think he counts as people too
You know, it really depends what you use a computer for.
- rightbyte 3y agoWith a 500 Mb HD? How is that even possible (at the time)? But ye, of course I am exaggerating. Surely there were maybe a handful of persons.
- jfil 3y agoI took some artistic liberties in the introduction :-) In practice, it seems that the ideal customers for this system were Sysops/BBS operators, small businesses that used their 1 computer to the max, and people who had lots of logs (possibly astronomers or academics running experiments). This also explains why it never hit mass-production: very few people needed 2GB of storage (a single tape). Let alone needing multiple tapes.
- rightbyte 3y agoI just needed something to nitpick nice write up :)
- ithkuil 3y agoI don't remember the exact sizes of the harddisk(s) but it was late 90s early 2000s and the small business I was talking about was a small publisher, so many of the documents were large DTP files, postscript files ...