The 2000's called to try and sell me some more real estate

It's early 2000's and I've spent $1500 AUD on a Pentium based computer system with as much grunt as a Daewoo Matiz. It was rocking 1.6Ghz (the original deal came with a 1.5 but for an extra $100 I could move to the next model of Ghz goodness, score!) and probably the biggest remembering point was the stonking great size of of the HDD. 

20 stonking gigabytes.

And look at me now, 20ish something years later and using much faster tech that's three times the size! Yes three times!

Although the way we're going, this is actually quite the terrible idea..

From 2002ish sometime..

-My computer came with some kind of Linux installation from the shop and having never used the Penguin, I had no idea what I was looking at or how it worked. So I bribed a cluey co-worker at the time with coffee (Hi Matt, hope you're doing well) and he popped around to install a spare copy of Windows ME (Yes the millennium edition!)  

-I got the copy of Windows ME from Austech.info, a site I frequented quite a bit for games I could play on my Playstation One at the time and now PC gear. Sadly while the site still runs to this day, my old account doesn't exist anymore. (It would have been nice to see what I was raving on about back in the early 2000s.)

-With a minimum of 320MB needed for a full install, that still left roughly 17GB or so on the stonking HDD to fill which at the time was plenty of room for greats like Diablo 2, Civ 2, Age of Empires and the so good it still hurts to this day: Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2! (Good god, what a sound track!) 

You got me runnin in a cycalone!

-A.I was a pipedream, limited to Skynet and Hal 9000.

To now..

-Garage Intelligence had no operating system on it to begin with so I grabbed AtomOS and Rufus and off I went, installing it myself while enjoying a coffee. Matt wherever he is would no doubt be as proud as punch as to how far I've come in computer knowledge (and I've kind of lost count as to how many times I've installed any kind of OS since..)

-You can download AtomOS right here. 

-For standard edition of AtomOS, you need at least 12GB of space. On my originally 20 gigger, that'd be 60% just on an operating system. Here on my teeny tiny no name SSD it's just 5% but it still doesn't leave much room for much else..

-Games? There's no room for games here! Not when I need Ollama, AnythingLLM, Jan and not to mention everything I can find to get the computer to finally accept my K2000 is actually there and yes I'm actually using it (it's still pretending it doesn't exist at the moment..) 

You exist and you will work damnit!

-And worse than that, in the last few days just to get things working (like trying Jan AI) resulted in having to uninstall other things (like Ollama) just to make some space. Perhaps my 60GB SSD really isn't cutting it in today's day and age for an idea like this?

No 'ooh barraCUDA' either. 

What Cuda looks like to my tiny system

Welp, almost forgot Nividia Cuda there too, the drivers software that Google suggested I install so that I could get Jan AI to finally recognize and possibly use my K2000. Well I installed it (and had to uninstall just about everything else just so it had room to stretch and install what it needed) and...Jan still couldn't see it. 

So now it's time to get rid of Jan, and put Ollama and AnythingLLM back. Perhaps, unless something smaller and far snappier comes along. 

It's a clear case of zero space your honor! 

Because my original idea certainly didn't incorporate additional space for Large Language Models which can set you back anywhere from 2-12GB depending on what you're trying on for size (although I will be dead set surprised if any A.I suggests any model larger than 6GB for something as old school as Garage Intelligence here!) And when you're trying different programs on for size constantly to see what works (and equally as important here, what doesn't) the downloads folder and space available on my three tiny drives can fill up pretty damn quick.

Maybe it's time to ditch the 60gbs complete, sacrifice some speed and either include the two HDD's I unearthed earlier or dare I say...peruse Facebook for some cheap junk with even more space to play? I might just have to if nothing I install has any faith (or can even see) my K2000 there..

Hmmm, decisions decisions..