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What PCs are all about
I am a digital subscriber in the UK, and have enjoyed reading Maximum PC over the past few months. I am old enough to have experienced the joy when massive hard disks first became available—I refer to 40MB hard disks, of course. Not too long after that, I was responsible for buying a server running a version of Unix, that had two enormous hard disks, that would handle the company’s storage requirements pretty much forever. One of these was 500MB and the other was 1GB. And the 1GB disk cost more than my house. Tempusfugit, as they used to say back in Rome. I am confident that I will have 100TB of storage in my home computing device at some point in the not too distant future. I don’t know what, but I am confident that something will want the increased acreage.
However, the real purpose of this mail was that article on Folding. This was immense! This is what computing is all about—solving problems with computers' ability to crunch data, and this Covid problem is very real and present to ALL of us. If I had a print edition, it would have been circulating among my friends but, unfortunately, the only version I have access to is on my Kindle Fire. Is there an online version of that article anywhere that I could point my friends to?
–P. Revell
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, ZAK STOREY, RESPONDS: Hi there, and welcome to the MaximumPC community. We actually have a fair few readers from the UK, at least as far as I can tell from our internal stats and databases, and you’re more than welcome here.