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40MB HD, only $40,000. In 1985. Kinda' big, too.
I paid $300 for a 30MB HD in 1991. Which is $10/MB. The 1985 drive would be $1000/MB. Now you can buy a 500GB drive for $140, which is .028 cents/MB.
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tommyrot - Jun 01, 2007 6:15:02 am PDT #1778 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
DXMachina - Jun 01, 2007 7:21:36 am PDT #1779 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We paid $5,000 for a 5MB hard drive for a Trash 80 in 1985, and at some point ('91, or so) we spent $1600 for a 600MB SCSI drive for a file server
le nubian - Jun 01, 2007 10:32:28 am PDT #1780 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommyrot - Jun 02, 2007 6:31:15 am PDT #1781 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So, are there any Mac experts who might be around in an hour or so?
I'm going over to an acquaintance's to try to fix her Mac. She says Word is acting all weird (I don't quite understand what it's doing). I don't have Word for Mac. Anyway, this woman is legally blind, so she's using some of the Accessibility features of the Mac - I don't know if that's related.
Anyway, I might poke my head back in here in an hour with questions....
tommyrot - Jun 02, 2007 8:41:05 am PDT #1782 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, how do you restore the normal template in Word on a Mac? This is Word 2004.
meara - Jun 02, 2007 8:45:23 am PDT #1783 of 25496
Hmm. I opened up my Word 2004 for Mac, but...uh...I have no idea. Reinstall!
tommyrot - Jun 02, 2007 8:51:02 am PDT #1784 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, one website says to rename the Normal.dot to something else, forcing Word to rebuild a new default Normal.dot. So I'm gonna try that....
tommyrot - Jun 02, 2007 9:01:30 am PDT #1785 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Bah. That didn't work.
What's happening is that the show/hide defaults to show, the documents open in split screen (two pages show side-by-side) and other weird stuff she doesn't like. It didn't used to do this. Word did create a new Normal document (not Normal.dot, just Normal) but things are still the same.
eta: OK, creating the new Normal document fixed some of the problems, but certain documents are still opening with two pages displayed side-by-side. How do I stop that?
esse - Jun 02, 2007 9:23:15 am PDT #1786 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Tommy, that's the last user view of the document. You can't change how it opens, because that's how the person who generated the file--I'm assuming it wasn't your friend--viewed it that way and saved the file in that view. You can change the zoom level, or from Reading View to Print View or whatever. But for it to stop opening that way, initally, is a user error.
tommyrot - Jun 02, 2007 9:32:18 am PDT #1787 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh. That makes sense. I tried changing the view and saving, but I never changed the document so it didn't actually save. Duh.
Things seem to be working now....