That's true. Waiting to load a program from a Tandy cassette tape was a challenge. Floppy disks were a big jump forward.
Before that, the Big Jump for me was a move from a Hayes 300 baud modem to an AppleCat 1200. I clearly recall thinking "Woah! It's feeding data faster than I can read it!"
Next up was the BeOS. From cold boot to completely loaded desktop and hard drive light off in something like 15 seconds. (Meanwhile, Windows 95 took something like 2 minutes to boot up.)
The final quantum jump was about 6 years ago when I moved from a spinning to a solid state (SSD) hard drive. Again, big BIG boost.
Before that, the Big Jump for me was a move from a Hayes 300 baud modem to an AppleCat 1200. I clearly recall thinking "Woah! It's feeding data faster than I can read it!"
Next up was the BeOS. From cold boot to completely loaded desktop and hard drive light off in something like 15 seconds. (Meanwhile, Windows 95 took something like 2 minutes to boot up.)
The final quantum jump was about 6 years ago when I moved from a spinning to a solid state (SSD) hard drive. Again, big BIG boost.