Posted Monday 6th April 2009 13:41 GMT

When working for BT in 1981 I asked a customer what the purring noise was. He said it was his Winchester HD. I asked how much memory it had.

He puffed out his chest & said it had 10MB.

I said, "What do you need so much memory for?"

I had just bought 32kb memory for my ZX81 & the guy in the shop had asked me the same question!

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