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todd ellis A Zillion
Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Posts: 10495 Location: little egypt
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:54 am Post subject: 2TB Seagate Externals $80 |
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TigerDirect _________________ "i know philip banks": todd ellis
who's/on/1st?
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Scott Pollak The Gates of Troy
Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Posts: 1903 Location: Looking out at the San Juan mountains
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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Insane. Just. Insane.
I remember (and this is absolutely true) when we got our first PC in the early '90s. Maybe it was '92 or '93. I believe the internal hard drive was something like 350 MEGABYTES. We later added an external drive which was something like another 250 MB for something like $300 or so (and that was in early '90s dollars!). I also remember bumping up our RAM for something like $50 a MEG or so. That's right, MB. I want to say it initially had something like about 4mb of RAM or so. _________________ Scott R. Pollak
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Jeffrey Kafer Assistant Zookeeper
Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 4931 Location: Location, Location!
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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My first computer was an Atari 800. nuff said.
And scott wins the award for most "Something like"s in a single post. _________________ Jeff
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Yonie CM
Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 906
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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Holy headspace, Batman!! |
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KarenL Been Here Awhile
Joined: 22 Jul 2009 Posts: 258 Location: North of San Francisco
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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My first time was with a Commodore 64... _________________ Happy to be here.
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Chuck Davis M&M
Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 2389 Location: Where I love to be...Between the Vineyards and the Cows.
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:58 am Post subject: |
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Coleco Adam. It had tape drives....and used a small b/w tv as a monitor. _________________ Wicked huge.....in India.
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Bish 3.5 kHz
Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Posts: 3738 Location: Lost in the cultural wasteland of Long Island
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:12 am Post subject: |
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That's a good deal. I just bought some WD 2T drives for my Drobo and they were the same price from NewEgg. I guess the enclosure is free!
... and on the nostalgia thread ... I started with a Sinclair Spectrum and quickly graduated to the glorious BBC B in around '82. Work became a PC shop, and I traded up to an Amstrad PC1512 for home in '86. DOS 3, and the wonderful GEM GUI front end. I upgraded with a 20Mb hard card for around $300. Yes... Twenty-Mega-Bytes!
That's just the home stuff... I dare not even think about the mainframe crap I had to maintain in the 70's (just think hand-wound ferrite-core memory, paper tapes and entering hexadecimal bootstrap code on a 16-button array.)
Cheers
Peter _________________ Bish a.k.a. Bish
Smoke me a kipper... I'll be back for breakfast.
I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls. |
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Scott Pollak The Gates of Troy
Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Posts: 1903 Location: Looking out at the San Juan mountains
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Todd, thanks for that link. I ordered one today.
Jeffrey: Yikes. I had NO idea I'd written 'something like' four freakin' times in my post. That's something like having a nervous tic or a stutter or something.
Something like that, I think. I mean. I suppose. _________________ Scott R. Pollak
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mcm Smart Kitteh
Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Posts: 2600 Location: w. MA, USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Scott is obviously very young. My first computer had a 20 MB hard drive, which I never came close to filling up. |
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Scott Pollak The Gates of Troy
Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Posts: 1903 Location: Looking out at the San Juan mountains
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Remember 5 1/2" floppies?
DOS?
B&W monitors?
Backup tape drives?
Dot matrix printers?
Why you young whippersnappers!!! In my day we walked uphill, in the snow, to school, BOTH ways! And we were grateful dammit!!
(then we hit big time with Iomega ZIP drives!) _________________ Scott R. Pollak
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Yonie CM
Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 906
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, my name is Yonie and I'm in my 20s. What's a backup tape drive? |
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Bish 3.5 kHz
Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Posts: 3738 Location: Lost in the cultural wasteland of Long Island
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Scott Pollak wrote: | (then we hit big time with Iomega ZIP drives!) |
... if you've got the working drive, I've got a dog-pile of ZIP disks. No, wait, didn't the ZIP drive connect to the parallel port... er, anyone got a parallel port? _________________ Bish a.k.a. Bish
Smoke me a kipper... I'll be back for breakfast.
I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls... I will not feed the trolls. |
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Rick Riley Flight Attendant
Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 807 Location: Portland, OR
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Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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The ST-506 was the first 5.25 inch hard drive and was introduced in 1980 by Seagate. it stored about 5 MB and cost $1500.
I remember when I got my first computer in 1981, it had 64k floppy and 64k of RAM. Within a period of a year or two the price the price of a hard drive dropped to about $100 per MB. I wanted a 5MB hard drive but it was about $500, so I declined.
If that price held today, a 2 TB drive would be about $200,000,000. Which would make the 1 GB drive I have on my keychain about $100,000, and pretty good deal.
In actuality that 1GB drive on my keychain can now be bought on Amazon for about the price of a gallon and a half of gas. |
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Lee Gordon A Zillion
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 6847 Location: West Hartford, CT
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:06 am Post subject: |
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Bish wrote: | didn't the ZIP drive connect to the parallel port... er, anyone got a parallel port? |
I had a couple of SCSI ZIP drives but I think most of them came down with the "click of death." _________________ Lee Gordon, O.A.V.
Voice President of the United States
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Twitter: @LeeGordonVoice
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Lee Gordon A Zillion
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 6847 Location: West Hartford, CT
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:12 am Post subject: |
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Yesterday, I saw something similar to this posted on Facebook:
Kids today click this symbol to save their work but have no idea what it actually represents:
_________________ Lee Gordon, O.A.V.
Voice President of the United States
www.leegordonproductions.com
Twitter: @LeeGordonVoice
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