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