• quink@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    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.

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      16 days ago

      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.

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        15 days ago

        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.

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          14 days ago

          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.