Re: now's the time to buy a hard drive!

[sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

In article <25rnq4$j96@jadzia.CSOS.ORST.EDU> yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Jeremy Chadwick) writes:
>I never run out of room, therefore I don't see why a personal-computer
>user would need more than 200MB, unless they're doing software
>development, or enjoys leeching stuff so badly that they need to be
>shot and learn how to delete files :).

...or unless you run some bloated operating system (like Windoze NT or
NeXTstep 486) or you run a BBS on your system.  My GS only has 40 megs
plugged into it (and that's usually enough since I use mostly 8-bit
apps), but my BBS box has a woefully-insufficient 125-meg drive.  I
thought that would be plenty of space when I bought the drive, but I
now have about 235 megs of files that I could make available if I had
more disk space.  As it is, I can only put about 25-30% of that
selection online.  (I hope to get a bigger drive sometime in the next
few months...hopefully something in the 350-meg+ range.  Part of that
space will be eaten up by OS/2, though.  OS/2 is a bit on the big
side, though it's not as big as NT or NeXTstep.)

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