red_avatar wrote on 2021-02-03, 11:24:
A good thing too since 4GB is absolutely tiny for a Windows 9X machine.
It's so funny how much we take for granted these days. 😁
I remember back in ~1997 or so my brother had our system (only computer in the house other than a Tandy 1000HX) running Windows 95 with a 133Mhz Cyrix at that time (later upgraded to a P200 MMX), a Scream'n 3D Verite 1000 (which I still have) and I believe an Aztech Sound Galaxy Washington 16 (could never forget that name). He was using a ~500MB drive for Windows (left over from a Packard Bell) and a secondary 1.2GB drive of some sort. The 1.2GB died (he lost a bunch of 3D rendered artwork, very sad day...), which didn't leave us with much! To add insult to injury, we had just mail-ordered Westwood's Bladerunner game after waiting for it to come out. Once it arrived, we had this horribly tiny drive to work with and had to run it mostly from the CD, which I believe was a 2x drive also left over from the PB. Not a good time! 🤣
He eventually bought a 2GB Quantum Bigfoot, which helped tremendously... even if it was a Bigfoot.
4GB solid state storage purchased in bulk for a few dollars each is so far removed from what we had back then. I remember the 6.4GB Quantum Fireball drive in my cutting edge ~$1700 Gateway G6-400 in early 1999 seemed positively massive.
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.