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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:54 am    Post subject: 2TB Seagate Externals $80 Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first computer was an Atari 800. nuff said.

And scott wins the award for most "Something like"s in a single post.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Holy headspace, Batman!!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My first time was with a Commodore 64...
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Coleco Adam. It had tape drives....and used a small b/w tv as a monitor.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.)

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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!)
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, my name is Yonie and I'm in my 20s. What's a backup tape drive?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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."
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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:


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