[alt.fan.cecil-adams] Re: Hook me up
Rick Burger
From: John Hatpin <RemoveThi...@gmailAndThisToo.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
Opus the Penguin wrote:
> I've decided not to go back to the 18th century because of the
> penicillin problem. Instead, I want to go back to 1977 and sell hard
> drives. This ad offers 80 Mbytes for under $12k and 300Mbytes for under
> $20k.
>
> http://www.2spare.com/_media/imgs/articles/a155_a1.jpg
>
> Getting cheap hard drives with more memory than that is easy. But how
> difficult would it be to make them work with the minicomputers of 1977?
I think I know how my old Acorn Atom 12K would deal with a 1TB drive:
ACORN WINCHESTER CONFIGURATION UTILITY (C) 1979
READY
AWCU> add
CONNECT WINCHESTER DISC; PRESS RETURN WHEN READY >
CHECKING DISC FORMAT ...
LOOK, THIS IS A JOKE, RIGHT? > no
YOU'RE HAVING ME ON! > no, i'm not
HAVE YOU SEEN THESE NUMBERS? > yes, of course
DO YOU SERIOUSLY EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE YOU HAVE THIS MUCH DISC? > yes
WHO ARE YOU? J. R. BLOODY EWING? > who?
DON'T TELL ME YOU DON'T WATCH DA ... NEVER MIND.
HOW BIG IS THIS THING ANYWAY? > 1 tb
1 WHAT? > 1024 gb, then
1024 WHAT? > ok, 1048576mb
YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I'M GETTING HERE TOO.
BUT HOW BIG IS IT PHYSICALLY? > about the size of a packet of
cigarettes
LOOK, I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE OR WHO YOU WORK FOR OR WHERE YOU CAME
>FROM OR ANYTHING, BUT THIS IS WAAAAY OUT OF MY LEAGUE. I'M JUST A
PIECE OF FIRMWARE TRYING TO GET ALONG IN LIFE, AND I DON'T WANT NO
TROUBLE. SO JUST TAKE YOUR 1048576MB CIGARETTE PACKET AND GET THE
HELL OUTTA HERE.
EXITING TO BASIC ...
ACORN BASIC
4294967296 BYTES FREE
WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE TO THE RAM?
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