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| [01/27/2014 04:39 AM] by Anton Shilov
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Posted on 01/31/2014 11:36:36 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I can remember getting a 300 MB drive for $300. And the first time I saw the speed of the dir command on a 386 I couldn’t believe it.
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posted on
01/31/2014 1:15:01 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: dfwgator
A guy in the next office over got an IBM XT with a 20mg hard drive back in the day and the rest of us were cruising along using dual floppies.
I couldn’t understand why he’d want storage space that would take 10 years to fill up at the normal work load.
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posted on
01/31/2014 1:15:01 PM PST
by
Rebelbase
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To: Labyrinthos
I would also use Dropbox as another backup, in case a fire destroys all of your hard drives.
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posted on
01/31/2014 1:15:20 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Agreed, except I wouldn’t use DropBox or any cloud based storage for any data or files that I don’t want in the public domain or reviewed by the NSA.
To: BulletBobCo
I remember upgrading to a TRS-80 CoCo back in the day. And then I moved onto the ultra-powerful 8086.
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posted on
01/31/2014 1:27:00 PM PST
by
mykroar
(We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. - Nathanael Greene)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
01/31/2014 1:37:29 PM PST
by
556x45
To: Rebelbase
My first PC had a 20 meg HD. Now that would hold four mp3’s, lol.
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posted on
01/31/2014 1:44:29 PM PST
by
ez
(Muslims do not play well with others.)
To: BulletBobCo
I recall a PDP 11/34 disk was about 24 inches in diameter and 5 megs.
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posted on
01/31/2014 1:50:50 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I just popped in my fourth HD.
I now have 9.5TB of storage.
(I have a LOT of videogames)
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posted on
01/31/2014 1:55:54 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
To: GeronL
I remember thinking, “how the hell am I ever going to use 20 megabytes?”
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posted on
01/31/2014 2:11:43 PM PST
by
zeugma
(Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
To: dfwgator
I LUSTED after that Radio Shack HD.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I bought my first hard drive in 1991. It was 80 MB. I paid extra to upgrade from the then-standard 40 MB.
I didn’t fill that drive up until 1995.
Today, it wouldn’t hold an album’s worth of MP3s.
To: RansomOttawa
All I need are floppy disks.
To: SkyDancer
Looks like a disk brake with two calipers.
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posted on
01/31/2014 3:08:57 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: zeugma
lol.
I remember I had to delete a game to play another game, it really stunk. I did like that I could play Spectrum Holobyte’s “Tank” off the disc though
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posted on
01/31/2014 3:31:34 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: Wiggins
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I remember sitting at my desk at home in 1986 after just unpacking and setting up my new computer. It was a DOS-based XT clone with 2 5-1/4 inch floppy drives, a 20 meg hard drive and an Epson LQ1500 dot-matrix printer attached. I had the most powerful system of anybody I knew and distinctly remember sitting there self-satisfied and confident in the knowledge that I would never need to buy another piece of computer equipment in my lifetime.
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posted on
01/31/2014 4:44:03 PM PST
by
KevinB
(Barack Hussein Obama: Proof-positive that affirmative action does not work.)
To: ken in texas
My first hard drive was 40 meg. If you swapped the MFM controller out for RLL you could sometimes get about 60 meg out of it.Me too. I believe it was a Mitsubishi.
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posted on
01/31/2014 5:24:03 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
To: dangerdoc
I have 3 terabytes spinning in the basement as a personal cloud server and probably twice that in backups and less essential stuff stuck in the fire safe.
Yea, that's about what I have. Old laptop had 320G, so I bought a 750G external. when that filled up I bought a 3T for ~$130 a couple years ago (awesome deal!). And it's about half full now. :) SSDs are simply too expensive to be worth purchasing, especially when you're on a limited budget.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; a fool in paradise
Which reminds me, when I was six I was diagnosed with TB.
But seriously folks, 6TB just in time when Microsoft is about to erect its new CEO who’ll get right to work filling that space up with bloatware!
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posted on
01/31/2014 6:12:18 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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