On: A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)

[dhosek]

But you don’t necessarily even have a hard disk. You might only have a 320K floppy. Floppy-only computers were pretty common in the late 80s when I was in undergrad.

[unregistereddev → dhosek]

Indeed, I remember having to insert a dedicated 5 1/4" floppy in order to run spell check in Apple Writer on an Apple ][e.

[mandeepj → dhosek]

Let's replace "hard disk" with "external storage". Shall we?