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1 posted on 06/26/2024 1:20:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Tech History Ping!................


2 posted on 06/26/2024 1:20:53 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

“Gentlemen, start your platters!”


3 posted on 06/26/2024 1:23:05 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Red Badger

To me, there were two significant improvements to the original IBM PC architecture. Number one was the internal hard drive. USB = #2.


4 posted on 06/26/2024 1:23:29 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Red Badger

My first true hard drive was 15 meg — 90 lbs
Winchester — took 3 minutes to stabilize before heads could access platters.


5 posted on 06/26/2024 1:24:38 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: Red Badger

Hell, a DemocRAT congress-critter can store zero bytes of information on a five-hundred page piece of legislation.

And a liberal kollege pro-phessor can exceed that by a factor of ten in his/her/its book(s).


6 posted on 06/26/2024 1:25:40 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Red Badger

The capability and cost have both improved dramatically.

The problem: when it fails you are back to zero.

For example, the CDK software hack shut down the systems of half the car dealers in the country last week. It is still going, and will continue until at least the end of June.

They are doing sales, leasing, service, repairs all by hand.

https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/cdk-global-tells-car-dealers-hacked-software-unlikely-to-be-restored-before-end-of-month/303796


11 posted on 06/26/2024 1:40:23 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Red Badger

I remember the first small one gig hard drive that fit in a memory card slot. Some $300 — for digital cameras.


13 posted on 06/26/2024 1:44:28 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like it’s about the size of a Mazda Wankel engine.


14 posted on 06/26/2024 1:59:54 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Red Badger

Looks like you need to check your calibers.


15 posted on 06/26/2024 2:03:15 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Red Badger
Then there was this for the home computer:

Cheap_HDD

Now there's this:

San Disk Extreme - 256 GB for $27

16 posted on 06/26/2024 2:03:37 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Red Badger

I started out my IT career after the Navy working on 14-inch platters. Then at Maxtor and later Seagate with 5-1/4-inch full-size Winchester drives—for years I had a 5MB drive, may still have it in a box somewhere. Now I’ve got multi-terabyte USB flash drives!


18 posted on 06/26/2024 2:06:39 PM PDT by Reno89519 (I'll go out on a limb: Trump & Gabbard 2024 or Trump & Sanders 2024)
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To: Red Badger
How about a 20 Mb hard drive for the Apple //e in 1984?

-PJ

19 posted on 06/26/2024 2:10:31 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Red Badger

I remember when I upgraded my Macintosh SE (2 3.5” floppy drives) with a 30MB hard disk from Seagate. My friend said I was “crazy.” “You are NEVER going to fill it!”


21 posted on 06/26/2024 2:25:01 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Red Badger

My first pc had a 40MB HD, probably early 90’s and a blistering 14.4K modem


26 posted on 06/26/2024 3:33:56 PM PDT by Zack Attack (✔)
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the CDC 7638 storage drives for the CDC 7600 supercomputer were about the size and shape of washing machines, and got to dancing about like an out-of-balance washing machine when the read-write arms really started to thrash ... our CDC 7600 had two rows of these storage units ... CDC 7638 drives weighed 390 lbs, and could hold 160 megawords (60 bits/word) ... we actually referred to these storage units as washing machines


27 posted on 06/26/2024 4:01:56 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Red Badger

And to think I was feeling old because I remember when Hard Drives broke the $1 per MB of storage threshold.


28 posted on 06/26/2024 4:22:53 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Red Badger

I never had one of those, or even seen one like that.

a friend in the early 80s bought a 5mb hd for his apple ][ so that games would load runner faster.

so much different today, It does not seem so long ago that I spent way too much money building a nas with 5x3 tb hd with software raid 5 cause hardware raid is total eventual failure

today I have a bunch of e1.s drives

https://www.storagereview.com/review/sk-hynix-pe8110-e1-s-ssd-hands-on

and more cores than you could possibly imagine 20 years ago

I have a coworker that might has one of those drives, I will ask him next time I see him. probably 20% odds.

one of the non current co-worker female hoarder ones that worked for DEC in the 80s probably does.


33 posted on 06/26/2024 5:08:19 PM PDT by algore
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To: Red Badger

First Novell server I worked on back in the 90’s was the size of a dorm refrigerator and was 500 MB. It was screaming.


34 posted on 06/26/2024 5:14:50 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a concrete saw in drag.


36 posted on 06/26/2024 6:03:58 PM PDT by xoxox
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Univac 9400 disc storage units. (I worked for Univac for a short time in the early 1970s.)

Caption: "The storage capacity of the original 8414 series is 7.5MB per disc pack. Our drives (1970s, 8425 series) can already store 50MB. For that time, this was an incredible size"

Here is the the read head assembly. (Not a happy day if you had a read head tracking failure! )

Caption: "The disc heads are amazingly big. The moving coil (on the left hand) plunges into an heavy pot magnet (not visible in the picture) and thus moves the complete slide on it's position. Therefore it works just as an ordinary loudspeaker, but the moving masses are much higher. The predecessor still moved the sled pneumatically. There is a bottle of wine in the right hand of the picture for comparison. "

(Link: https://www.technikum29.de/en/devices/univac9400/discdrives.php)

37 posted on 06/26/2024 6:35:39 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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