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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>The times they have a-changed
indeed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>My first computer experience was on a
VAX 780. 2 MB Ram, 550 MB hard disk. It ran most of the Lincoln
University campus - some 60 screens, probably 200-300 user accounts, each with
what seemed an enormous disk quota. Phd students had huge data files
stored on it. It ran big statistics programs - SAS, Minitab, SAAM. (SAAM
was some 5 million lines of Fortran for instance). We would never have
believed a single PC could have 1000 times as much memory and 1000 times
as much disk space. We would have said "how can data files ever get so
big?"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Mind you I can still fit my entire
700 person address book in a 128KB memory organiser...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>John</DIV></BODY></HTML>