Subj : Re: Early PCs
To   : AKAcastor
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 03:22 pm

  Re: Re: Early PCs
  By: AKAcastor to Spectre on Wed Apr 24 2024 02:44 pm

 AK> The 'big' disks, due to compression, didn't work out so well for making
 AK> more space for BBS file downloads!  (amongst other issues, of course)

 AK> Disk compression was rather ... underwhelming ... when storing a bunch of
 AK> .ZIP files.  :)

 AK> Honestly though, the times I used DriveSpace and it didn't destroy all my
 AK> data, it did seem like magic - more disk space for FREE!

Yeah, it all depended on what you were storing on your hard drive.  I used Stacker for a while, and later I think I switched to Microsoft's DoubleSpace and DriveSpace.  I didn't use it very long though - In 1996, I got my first job and had my own money, and with my first paycheck, I bought parts to build a new PC, including a much larger hard drive and I don't think I used drive compression after that.

Drive compression has its issues..  It generally slows down the computer, and there was one time for me when DOS booted up and the drive compression driver didn't load for some reason, so I couldn't access my files.  I don't remember what I had to do to fix that..

Nightfox
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