The first networked computer I used? Didn't have a monitor.

[demiurgent]

I'm enjoying Leopard. And Time Machine stuns me with just how good it is.

But I just had a weird, almost surreal experience.

It did its thing at 2:30. It was next scheduled to do it at 3:30. At 2:53, I decided "eh, I'm curious how much it'll back up if I do it now," so I opened up the Preferences page so I could watch it copy, and I triggered a copy.

23 minutes after its last copy, it breezily sent over the 28.6 megabytes that had changed.

28.6 megabytes. That's more than one megabyte a minute.

I remember. My first "computer" had a miniscule amount of RAM -- 16k, maybe -- and got its programs off a cassette drive. My first real computer had 128K and a single 5.25" floppy disk drive which pretty much everything ran off of. You had to take the program disks out and slide the storage disks in to save anything.

My mother got a great computer on her desk, just before her retirement. AT&T brand, a 286. It had a 20 megabyte hard drive on it.

I completely filled my mother's hard drive with random changes and shit in less than twenty minutes, and then went over it by almost half-again her space. And I didn't do anything in that time.

Man, every so often I need to be reminded just how different things are now....

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And long before then you would have been driven insane by the terrible farting sound.