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Started with IMS Dyaxis in about 1987/8- Mac FX with a whopping 2 megs of ram and a pair of 300 MB SCSI drives. Quickly moved to Lexicon Opus and Sonic Solutions on a Quadra 900 with 8 megs of ram with in 1990 when I started at Soundmirror. O the wonders of early digital. All the best, -mark On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Carl Pultz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A crappy, even in its day, $900 P-4 clone machine with 254MB/10GB in 1999. > It ran NT, as I'd got very familiar supporting it at IBM, where it followed > OS2 into the local office. Big improvement on 95/98. N-track, then CoolEdit > Pro. SCSI Plextor burner. The major usability challenge was the noise. I > stored it in an adjacent closet, and smothered the machine in blankets. What > a hassle. > > By 2002, the box was recycled into a linux Web server, and once ran Redhat > for over a year without a reboot. I should try firing it up again and put it > on the air - - sorry, I mean the 'net. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fine > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:53 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Back when a billion was a billion > > http://blog.modernmechanix.com/billion/ > > To put it in ARSC terms, consider a terabyte of data. What was the memory > and hard disc capacity of > your first DAW? How long ago was that? > > -- Tom Fine