Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?

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From: Tom Bird
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 00:00

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Tim Stannard <Tim@adhoc.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<Czx7BGA37yg0Ewqh@adhoc.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <34824337.CAA79322@prodigy.net>, Jason <jneus@prodigy.net>
> writes
> 
> <SNIPS>
> 
> > Me, I just like the fact that I can hook up to 32 devices to one
> >controller.  I'll never have that many, but, you never know.  8^>
> >
> 
> And I bet once upon a time you never thought you'd need 16Mb RAM or fill
> a 500Mb Hard Disk either <BG>

I remember thinking about the daunting task of filling a 250  or using all
the processing power of a DX2/50 or indeed, needing any more than 8Mb RAM -
ahhhh, 1992, them was the days.

Now I have 8 squared of RAM (64 for the mathematically challenged) and even
that gets tight with PhotoShop!

TB

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From: "Tom Bird" <hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
Date: 1997/12/02
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