Toshiba Reaches 200GB Milestone (2.5" drive)

MCPW ^ | June 5th 2006 | release

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

This was used about 10 years ago on 3.5" floppies!

[xcamel]

3.5" -- laughs sarcastically

8" floppies, 16" 96mb 5-platter hard drives.

32K was "gobs" of memory.

I programed in assembly language to force 16 bit graphics out of a 4mhz 6809

[Echo Talon]

its still slow compared to a desktop hard drive...

[xcamel]

Find a desktop drive that weighs 98 grams

[King Prout]

ping

[Echo Talon]

why would i want it to be 95grams? I never pickup my desktop computer, i wouldn't care if it was 5 lbs as long as its fast.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

In long before you 3.8 megabyte drum.
7 track 1/2 " tape drive.
Wire recorder.
My first use of a microprocessor, F 8 fairchild.

[Dinsdale]

A 4 mhz 6809...luxury.

When I was a kid we had 1 mhz 6502s, 4K of ram and a 1200 baud 'tape drive'...and we loved them.

And yes we traded computer porn on them.

[xcamel]

Ok... I admit it... Mt first love was an 8086 (modified Altos box) with a cassette recorder for storage.

Mt first "business" computer to play with was a nixdorf with a pico-n processor and unibasic.

[Ichneumon]

Toshiba Reaches 200GB Milestone (2.5" drive)

It doesn't seem that long ago when I first heard of a 1GB drive being sold, and I thought to myself, "man, if I got one of those, I'd never run out of storage again..."

Now, of course, I can chew up 1GB in less than a day on a short field trip with my digital camera...

I am reminded of the page in an old (and I mean *old*) "PC Magazine", where they playfully "defined" various computer terms in funny or satirical ways. At the time, disk drives were about 20-40 megabytes, which seemed huge in those days, but people started noticing how fast even "huge" disk drives managed to get full. So the authors of the article decided to be over-the-top funny and defined "Terabyte" (which is a 1000 gigabytes) as "A unit of storage so unimaginably vast that it would take the average user two weeks to fill it up."

In those days, this was just ridiculously hilarious. Today, meanwhile, it's almost exactly true, given the speed at which we can generate digital images or video, and download entire seasons of TV programs, high-def movies, etc.

[MarkL]

Ok... I admit it... Mt first love was an 8086 (modified Altos box) with a cassette recorder for storage.

Somewhere in my basement is my first computer, an Altos 586, probably the child or grandchild of your computer. 10MHz 8086, 1MB RAM, 5 RS-232 ports. I did have both a floppy drive AND a 20MB hard drive, for Altos Xenix and the Xenix Development System. I bought the computer used in early 1986 for $1000 (with a 5MB hard drive), and spent another $1000 on the used 20MB hard drive! And that included 2 Altos II terminals!

Mark

[dighton]

Stone punchcards, chisels.

[xcamel]

we used to raise some serious hell with the "pink dots" from IBM punch-tape (millions of them) on Halloween....

/evil grin

[ErnBatavia]

One of the great reasons to love Free Republic...fourteen comments on this thread, and I have yet to comprehend ONE word...(But I read these techie threads to try and get a percent or two of knowledge)

"Press 1 for English"

:)~

[Dinsdale]

I recall a convesation.

My friend: 'What would you do with a gig drive'
Me: 'Stack it!' (remember stacker?)

[mysterio]

When I was 8, I took a summer class in computer programming. Think it was a form of basic. It was on a TRS-80. I remember thinking that thing was really great. I still miss B52 Bomber (drop the pixel to bomb pixel buildings) and Oregon Trail. We had both of those games to play during down time in the class.

[Revolting cat!]

Perpendicular Magnetic Recording

Yeah, and that's the only problem with it.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The old trash 80, we bought some and used the guts to read 4 track digital cassettes.

[xcamel]

I was the guy who wrote "landing simulator" for the TRS-80 model I

(land on the runway, don't crash, or go off the end)

that was um... 1978.