Posted on 09/29/2007 1:10:40 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
What a Dramatic picture....
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With the cabinet covers on, the IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit measured 5’ 8” tall, 5’ wide and 2’ 5” deep, whilst it weighed in at massive 250kgs. The unit comprised fifty 24” platters, one pair of read/write heads and a pulley system that provided both the vertical and horizontal head movement. Furthermore, the native storage capacity of the disk drive was 5MB (referred to at the time as 5 million characters).
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In terms of the platter stack, the media that was adhered to the disk surfaces was just as primitive as the pulley system used to drive the read/write heads. Quite simply, the media consisted of paint that had been refined by squeezing it through women’s stockings, which subsequently had iron filings mixed into it. |
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[31]wow!
In July I saw a small metal box at Staples, about $400, it was an external terabyte drive. It was one of those unshared moments of joy, because the kid helping me find a mouse was, well, a kid, and doesn’t remember things like, oh, shopping for the Sider, a massive 20 meg drive for the Apple II, or how 1 GB used to be enough to run an entire company, or for that matter, when 300 baud superseded 110 baud, and was in its turn eclipsed by 1200 baud, then 2400, then the formerly expensive 9600 got cheap... :’)
The Warehouse sell has been running for many months...the IDE attachment is old technology....Seriata ATA is the lateste transfer rate is triple the IDE rate.....course the disk still has the same rotation speed and access times....
As another example, check out the change in the Rove weather/earthquake/mind-control machine -- then and now:
LOL!
Back in the early days, I used to religiously back up my hard drive - the entire hard drive - on nearly a weekly basis with floppy disks. I still have a full backup for my old IBM 1994 PS/1. The hard drive was 129MB and it took about 70 floppies to keep it backed up. Funny thing is I still have that PS/1 system in the basement. I turned it on a few months ago just for kicks and that old hard drive booted right into Windows 3.1 just like it was 1994 all over again. It was fun seeing all those clunky, cheesy applications again - like Prodigy BB Manager, Quicken 1.0, Wolfenstein 3D and Microsoft Encarta.
PING.
Fantastic and thank goodness! Now I will never need another hard drive again. NO WAY I will ever fill that up!!!
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Here is 1/2 TeraByte storage system from the late 70s and early 80s:
I have twice that much now on my MacPro
As they say, a picture is worth a gigaword.
"If you can't follow the conversation, ridicule it." -- aculeus.
6GB / 1500Hrs of Music on a drive.
Yeah, but this one came with two hot chicks in mini-skirts to help you run it! ;-)
Here's my storage medium!
thanks.
The last time I checked, it was a kiloword. Inflation's been a lot worse than I thought.
lol 3MB/s transfer rate. That probably exceeded the FS-BUS speed of the computer connected to it.
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