Bob forgot to mention that he maintained paperboy.micro.umn.edu, a Mac IIfx running INN for a good long while. That enabled Clarinet UPI news.
Having full text searches in 1992 blew people's minds. Plus you could bookmark a search, which was another game changer!
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Receipts: Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 13:51:07 From: Bob Alberti Clarinet archiving looks to be taking up about 100K blocks (~50 Meg) a month, and if this is the case, we're going to want to get another disk for it, ideally 600+ Megabytes.
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600 Megabytes!?
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In 1991 a GB was ~$7k Still amazed that we could pay for all that expensive hardware and had such lousy salaries.. At $30k/year 1 disk would be .3 SWE/y mkomo.com/cost-per-gigab…
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TBH I had totally forgotten that. Sigh. Having a crap memory is, um, what was I saying?
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