On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:19:56 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
> wrote:

>
>"jack" > wrote
>>>> Apparently you have. Once upon a time disks were organized in
>>>> directories. That was before M$ decided that 'directory' was too
>>>> difficult a concept for their poor users, and changed it into 'folder'.
>>>
>>> Actually Apple decided that.
>>>
>> Actually it was Stanford or Xerox, as nb pointed out. But M$ was the one
>> that got it accepted as 'common computerese', by their sheer size. When
>> Apple called it folders and DOS called it directories, the generic term
>> was 'directory'. When windows started calling it 'folders', the generic
>> term changed.
>
>Businesses have been storing documents and the like in folders for a couple
>of centuries. Long before any computer owners/builders/programmers have
>been alive. Why change it now?

I use an external hard drive, My Book, cost under $100... I think it
can hold something like a half a million photos, I'll never fill it.