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minus-squarequinklinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-25 days agoPeople very much had 20GB drives that year. Sure, 8GB, 12GB, 13.6GB we’re more common capacities but any mid to high-end system that didn’t have (near enough) 20GB was bad value and drives bigger than that were available.
minus-squarePsythik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·5 days agoI’m sure they existed but only on high-end PCs. 20GB drives didn’t become the norm for another two years. I remember; I was there.
minus-squarequinklinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-25 days agoI replied to a post saying that nobody had a 20GB system. Sure it was more of a mid to high-end thing, but very much far from nobody. And I was there too, the low end cheapo PC I got that year had 12GB. https://vintageapple.org/pcworld/pdf/PC_World_9912_December_1999.pdf And by 2001 that 12GB got an 80GB companion. Sure, 20GB was some low-end baseline maybe, but I had 12+80 by that year and it was in no way unusual. Edit: and just checked the Wayback Machine for the local computer shop. The cheapest Celerons had 40GB. In 2001.
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoI said no “normal pc owners”. Normal pc owners don’t have high end systems. I didn’t say “nobody”. 2 years in the late 90s early 2000s was a millennia. You can’t compare 99 to 01 in any manner.
People very much had 20GB drives that year. Sure, 8GB, 12GB, 13.6GB we’re more common capacities but any mid to high-end system that didn’t have (near enough) 20GB was bad value and drives bigger than that were available.
I’m sure they existed but only on high-end PCs. 20GB drives didn’t become the norm for another two years. I remember; I was there.
I replied to a post saying that nobody had a 20GB system. Sure it was more of a mid to high-end thing, but very much far from nobody.
And I was there too, the low end cheapo PC I got that year had 12GB.
https://vintageapple.org/pcworld/pdf/PC_World_9912_December_1999.pdf
And by 2001 that 12GB got an 80GB companion. Sure, 20GB was some low-end baseline maybe, but I had 12+80 by that year and it was in no way unusual.
Edit: and just checked the Wayback Machine for the local computer shop. The cheapest Celerons had 40GB. In 2001.
I said no “normal pc owners”. Normal pc owners don’t have high end systems. I didn’t say “nobody”.
2 years in the late 90s early 2000s was a millennia. You can’t compare 99 to 01 in any manner.