Posted on 12/19/2016 1:24:15 PM PST by TigerClaws
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The first PC I got my hands on was an IBM AT with all of 10 mb hard drive.
I called the front office to ask "Who is going to put this together" their response - "You!
Merry Christmas from Wikileaks
I think I paid about $3K for an external 10MB back in the day. No more swapping floppies. WooHoo! I was cookin with gas.
I remember a brief moment in time when PCs would have 2 or 4 hard drives connected together to make one huge (at the time) drive.
I had a TI994A, and we had to hook up a tape recorder to save anything. It worked at least half the time...
In those days, a 20 MB hard drive weighted about 20 pounds, too.
LOL
I bought a 4kb ram Color Computer for home. I had a TRs 80 at the office
With great trepidation and clucking from my wife, I opened the case and removed the memory and replaced it with 64K!!
It had external hard drive and a small tv for a monitor
it was faster and had better graphics than the much hallybalooed Apple
This was done right after it is now certain Trump is President.
weighted = weighed
When I helped my sister pick out her first pc in the late 80's I told her the same thing about her 20MB drive. I said you'll NEVER fill that up.
You used to be able to double the capacity of a 5meg MFM hard drive with a special kind of reformatting. Yes 5meg. I ran my SF Bay Area conspiracy BBS “Baby Brain” off it using Mustang BBS software and a 1200 baud modem. Ever try to create a text message using Edlin? Kinda like playing Twister with two broke legs.
My first hard drive was 20 meg in a $2000 Goldstar clone. Today that hard drive would hold about 4 lo-res mp3s.
Go Wiki...time to break our the Julian Assange t-shirts...
I remember telling an older woman she would never need 1gb, lol.
Bkmrk.
Mine is even worse; I remember telling a women that her Packard Bell 386 would be the last computer she’d ever need.
Our data storage cabinet that stood 7 feet high and 4 feet wide and 4 feet deep only held 8GB.
Speaking of hard drives, ...
About a year ago I had a backup program start backing up some files under the Windows\user directory. It was backing up onto a 3 TB 3.0 USB and a 3 TB external NAS. The program backed up everything. I wasn’t paying attention until a year later when I started getting error messages that the disks were full.
I started deleting the files via the Windows file explorer on the 3.0 USB. Windows first had to index the files to be deleted. That took a week of the i7 laptop running 24/7. When it finally finished indexing, it indicated that there were 39 MILLION files marked for deletion. I clicked okay and it took a week running 24/7 to finally delete them all.
On the other drive, I deleted by using a different backup program that could be set to delete old files. So, I set it to delete but not copy. I had to do it in sections as there were about the same number — 39 Million — files to be deleted. This was on the NAS drive through my i5 desktop. It also took a couple of weeks to delete them.
Yet, 1TB seems to be completely adequate. I have only filled up 250G of it with all of our family pictures and documents and occasional videos and computer software and music am only adding 20MB a week max.
Maybe we are truly reaching the limit?
In 1980, at my first job, some guys had the 20mb version hooked up to an 8085-based machine, with a touch screen. Touch, as in a wire grid in soft plastic. Must have been 1980 or 81. Kiosk type stuff.
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