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What PCs are all about
I am a digital subscriber in the UK, and have enjoyed reading Maximum PC over the past few months. I am old enough to have experienced the joy when massive hard disks first became available—I refer to 40MB hard disks, of course. Not too long after that, I was responsible for buying a server running a version of Unix, that had two enormous hard disks, that would handle the company’s storage requirements pretty much forever. One of these was 500MB and the other was 1GB. And the 1GB disk cost more than my house. Tempus fugit, as they used to say back in Rome. I am confident that I w ill have 100TB of storage in my home computing device at some point in the not too distant future. I don’t know what, but I am confident that something will want the increased acreage.
However, the real purpose of this mail was that article on Folding. This was immense! This is what computing is all about—solving
