Reply 20 of 43, by BitWrangler
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wrote:Bitter end of the DOS era. Everyting old was old and cheap, not "retro" and expensive. But hard drives were bigger. CD-Burners w […]
Bitter end of the DOS era. Everyting old was old and cheap, not "retro" and expensive.
But hard drives were bigger. CD-Burners were affordable.And the last 15 years i have the same formula for retro.
ISA based motherboard.
CD/DVD burner.
Largest and most modern hard drive that the motherboard bios can detect and use.But in reality the most ipressionable years were the 486/Pentium years. But if you have a 250MB hard drive, then you have to make a permanent choice, bunch on dos games, or windows 95 and really nothing more. So no multiboot, or no large game collections.
Yes there was definitely a point in early/mid 486 era where software bloat had exceeded cheap disk capacity, I think '92ish an 80MB drive was a "month's rent" kind of price. But not too many games came on more than 5 disks then, so you might have got 3 big games, windows 3.x, word, 123, crammed on there. Then everything just got bigger and I don't think it was until about 95 we were getting much of a break, then there was a lot of price movement, so that year a 500MB dropped below about half a months rent, and 1.5G was about that price by the following year.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.