More or less every time there's a quota increase, people wax sentimental on zephyr about what the Athena quota used to be. I've put this together to help people figure it out. (And of course to punt.) If you have better info, please send it to me.
—Alex
Note that "fall" here means in time for Fall term, or shortly into the term.
| before Fall 1989 | ?.? | |
| Source: Your Name Here if you can tell me any details. | ||
| Fall 1989? | 1.2 | |
| Source: Vanessa Layne '93 remembers that it was 1.2 when she was a frosh. Other anecdotal evidence suggests it had been for quite a while, possibly back to the founding of project Athena. For those not old enough to remember, 1.2 MB was the capacity of a "High Density" 5.25-inch floppy disk. |
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| Summer 1992 | 2.2 | |
| Source: Jonathon Weiss '93. The increase was concurrent with the migration of Athena from NFS to AFS. | ||
| Fall 1993 | 5.0 | |
| Source: "IS Doubles Athena Storage Space...", The Tech, Aug. 27, 1994. | ||
| August 4, 1994 | 10.0 | |
| Source: "IS Doubles Athena Storage Space...", ibid. The exact date is from the cfyi discuss archive. | ||
| April 4, 1996 | 12.5 | |
| Source: "IS Increases Student Athena Disk Quotas", The Tech, April 5, 1996. | ||
| Fall 1997 | 15.0 | |
| Source: "Dialups and Quotas Get Faster, Larger", The Tech, Aug. 26, 1997. | ||
| Nov. 17, 1998 | 20.0 | |
| Source: "Information Systems Increases Athena Disk Quotas One-Third", The Tech, November 20, 1998. | ||
| Fall 1999 | 30.0 | |
| Source: "SIPB Turns Over Website to Institute: Athena 8.3 features maintenance improvements; quota also increased", The Tech, Aug. 28, 1999 | ||
| March 17, 2000 | 50.0 | |
| Source: "I/S Ups Quota to 50 Megabytes", The Tech, March 28, 2000. | ||
| Fall 2001 | 100.0 | |
| Source: People who remember it. | ||
| Fall 2002 | 200.0 | |
| Source: People who remember it. | ||
| July 27, 2003 | 500.0 | |
| Source: People who were paying attention. (This was the first quota increase after this page was created.) | ||
| July 30, 2004 | 1000.0 | |
| Source: People who were paying attention. | ||
Three data points per year are graphed, representing
the quota on March 1, July 1, and November 1 of each year.
Graph
created in AppleWorks 6, copied into GraphicConverter, and saved as PNG.
This page has been accessed at least
times since July 15, 2003.
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