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I kinda doubt this, but ... GNOMIC?
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I kind of doubt it too. 
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Yeah ... but it was a nice anagram of COMING! 
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Advent
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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@GregUtas
Where's the CCC?
You trying to steal pkfox's "late posting" crown?
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Oh ! I awarded him that ages ago - at least he has an excuse living in a different time zone - mine was unadulterated ineptitude 
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I updated VS 2022 Community Edition today, the download was 3.6 gig and it installed 1241 packages WHAAAT !!!
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Looks like you have an incomplete download, there must be many packages missing, check your connection.
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I remember a contract I had in the early nineties where I had to download banking data from mainframe tapes onto a pc, we had to buy a large scsi disk ( probably 1gb I can't remember) to store it on - the cost was eye watering even then.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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When I first started as a mainframe operator in the 60s we did not have network or even modem communication. We had to exchange data between our two centres (Manchester & Hemel Hempstead) on physical media. So every night we would dump a load of data on a set of magnetic tapes, put the tapes in a taxi and send them on their way. The other centre did the same, and the taxis met somewhere around Birmingham, and exchanged cargoes. They would then drive back to their respective centres and hand us the new tapes for processing. All in all, a brilliant solution.
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Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I'm not sure our taxis actually hurtled back in those days, more a sedate progress.
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Ah, yes; the FedEx (taxi) transfer. This is still the single highest bandwidth data transfer mechanism available, although with last mile internet speeds increasing this might not be true much longer.
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My first hard drive was one I bought for my first computer - Amstrad 1640.
It cost more than the computer did, and was a massive 32MB (and so fast - av Seek time of 25ms if I was lucky!)
Compared to the twin floppies it replaced though ... it was just so wonderful.
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I also had one of those, couldn't believe how much free space I had to play with.
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Yep. But most of my games still needed the floppies for copy protection reasons ... 
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I don't remember the brand of the first hard drive I bought was.
I do remember thinking, "40 MB how could anyone use that much storage?" 
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OriginalGriff wrote: It cost more than the computer did, and was a massive 32MB
That's the size of the Diamond Rio PMP300, the first standalone MP3 player to make it to market. It could hold a whole album!!...presuming every track was encoded at 128kbps or less...
Yeah, even back then, it wasn't all that great...and somehow I got the brilliant idea that getting two of them (one still in its original box today) would be awesome, 'cuz they'd become such valuable museum pieces...
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pkfox wrote: 1241 packages
Guess that's what makes it a community....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have similar on my home laptop today ito download size. 998 packages to update. On my work laptop it's 1.7 GB to download, but it was also more up to date than my home laptop. Surely there must be a better way to package updates or make them smaller to download.
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I used to try to keep my VS installer folder up to date, using some obscure installer command-line switches...essentially, it downloaded the latest version of every package it knew about. I abandoned the idea when it started to consistently download 30+GB every month. So now I just let every instance of VS I have download what it thinks it needs, and it tends to stay below 2GB...even though it does mean each instance of VS I have might end up downloading the same files.
I miss ISO-based installers.
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