[TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems

[Larry McVoy]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 07:17:11PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> I used to regularly compress sources of various distributions (not UNIX, but
> inn, pine, elm, etc) that I compiled, just to save space.
> 
> And that was in the early 90's when I could buy a 1GB SCSI drive for $1000.
> I can't imagine working off of the early hard drives...

I was sys admin for a Masscomp with a 40MB disk and 20 users.  That
was, um, "fun".