>>Just can believe I've started with this :)
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>>http://www.masswerk.at/google60/
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>My first experience with computers was in 1959, when I was five years old. I played with a lot of those punch cards, but they didn't have the words Google written on them, instead it was IBM.
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>The first hard drive they got where my father worked, was 10MB, at the size of a normal household washing machine.

My first PC had a 10MB hard drive -- it took dBASE II about 45 minutes to reindex a 10,000-record table.
Then I discovered that Foxbase could build the same index in about 15 seconds....
And the rest is history!

-m.