Oh, ok. We will wait.
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Fist fighting over a rustling bag of chewing gum? Ah, in the good ole’ days, such fist fights only happened over a slightly mistimed note!
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@discobot fortune Do you think it’s fair to fist fight about rustling noises in a concert hall?
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My sources say no
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@discobot fortune do your sources say no?
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It’s not even the capacities anymore, but the sheer speed they’re doing now.
Not meaning to brag, just saying I get the feeling though. My first hard disk was an Epson with 20mb and about 65ms access time. At a job did we once had to get rid of old hard drives. They held 5mb and we needed an industry pallet to move two at a time out of the building.
And just recently have I been looking at the Corsair Force MP510 SSD, which has 250gb capacity and can read/write at speeds of up to 3/1 GB/sec. Those are speeds not even RAM could compete with 10 years ago.
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But with that amount of speed, it should be paired with a fiber optical connection of 10Gbps. 
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It goes into the NVMe M.2 socket of a mainboard. Many mainboards have this new interface now and it no longer connects to SATA, but it’s an interface much closer to PCIe.
Oh, wait, you’re not talking about the disk interface? That drool face and “fiber optic” could mean something different. 
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@discobot quote somebody nice, please!
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. — Napoleon Hill
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@discobot quote Garfield.
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I had an XT with no hard disk drive.
I still have one in storage, but it’s not the original IBM XT i had.
I lend it to a friend who used to work for Canadian Security Intelligence Service, but he forgot to secure it enough to give it back to me, and I would have stored it again.
Try to find how much one of those is worth now, if they are not too rare to find one that is, with an IBM XT Keyboard and IBM green and black monochrome monitor designed for it.
It ran a 5.25" floppy disk to boot the system , which, the large version had around 720 KB of storage data on it.
The smaller more stable versions had 360 KB of storage or so.
Needless to say, the programs needed to be more efficient.
(Note added Friday, November 30, 2018:
I think I may be wrong, the greater amount of data was 1.2 MB, and the 2 other ratios were other standard format.
This, compared to the 1.44 MB for the 3.5" disks or, diskettes.)
My first computer was a $80 or $75 Timex Sinclair 2000 with 2 KiloBytes of RAM.
It was stolen from someone I moved with when going to college.
I then left that province since they still refuse to do anything about it.
The good news is that I get work offers from the UN and the international court (also military) due to this.
Someone from Unesco is where I am now.
That Timex computer had one step ahead with Peek and Poke command to write data to the EPROM .
You could hack the Kobayashi Maru to beat the fail scenario.
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It surprises me how we all lived with heavy and clunky CRT monitors for years before mid 2000s. If somebody asked me to live with it again, I’d say “no”. However, CRT monitors are still (are they still?) the dirt cheap method to display good graphics. I’m not talking about the ubiquitous ones, I’m talking about the large, expensive ones.
It’s a captainship test from Star Trek, isn’t it?
Good night, lovelies. 
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The Kobayashi Maru is a training exercise in the fictional Star Trek universe designed to test the character of Starfleet Academy cadets in a no-win scenario.
Star Trek also released a newer Windows XP / 7 version.
There was an older version running on Apple ‘G’.
That was far from the original, but it had you surrounded by Klingon ships, and nowhere to go, as you got trapped deeper in space.
It’s like a fear of alien, concrete, scenario.
Release 1985.
However, that is not the version I mention about, which i saw run around the same time.
It had a linear design, real time animation, not this text based system.
The latest is currently not listed, but there is a mention of a possible variant , on the
Star Trek: Bridge Crew
My last CRT, also an IBM, stopped functioning as it overdid it’s life cycle from 1999 December 30, to 2018 / 17.
It was heavy to move it the 20+ times even if I was in the same place for over 6 years from 2002 to 2008.
My mother died before the CRT.
This was around the half-life cycle.
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Wow, it’s so late! Nighties lovelies!
Also: have your tried to turn it off, turn it on and shake it…?
It’s all it takes, just reboot and shake the gyro around performing turn maneuvers until it unblocked and returned to normal parameters.
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Cries*
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