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| History of the Hard Drives | Views: 90 |
| Oct 01, 2009 12:31 pm | | History of the Hard Drives | # |
Scott Wolpow | | I remember desk sized HD and my first pc bought in 1990 had 110 megs of storage.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Walking-Through-40-Years-of-Hard-Disk-Drive-History-550612/?kc=EWWHNEMNL10012009STR1
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| Oct 01, 2009 4:34 pm | | re: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Ron Sam | | I still have some old removable hard disks that look like the ones in pic #6 and 7 and in perfect condition. A lot of them got damaged by head crashes.
Recently I got a 400 GB Toshiba USB hard drive for my netbook.
It cost $69 from Sams Club, is small roughly the size of a pack of cards, weights an ounce or two.
Did you ever go up to Webster , NY to see this museum?
http://www.webstermuseum.org/xerox.php
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| Oct 01, 2009 10:52 pm | | re: re: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Scott Wolpow | | A museum dedicated to one TV show?
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| Oct 03, 2009 11:37 am | | Rre: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Teddy Towncrier | |
I seem to recall paying $1,500 for a 10 Gig drive.
Splurged and bought another 128k Stick and thought I had enough power to run GM's payroll for the next 10 years.
Loaded dbase into memory & it ran so fast that the 4.25's melted.
Of course; I'd never think of going on-line and admitting I can remember what II+ means.
BTW @Ron ... Now have an Acer One Netbook and love it. .. Thanks for your input.
Bestest.
Teddy Towncrier CPP Towncrier-Media.com Supercharging Your Visions.
 
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| Oct 03, 2009 11:59 am | | re: Rre: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Scott Wolpow | | I bought a 1 gig hd back in 95, cost was $800.
Today $800 can buy you over 8 Tetra Bytes. Adjusted for inflation that $800 is worth 1,200 or 12+ Tertrabytes.
That is amazing.
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| Oct 03, 2009 12:49 pm | | e: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Teddy Towncrier | |
@Scott. ... Incredible isn't it?
We who know our way around 'puters have so much power at our fingetips.
We are slowly increasing awareness and slowly changing the world.
Bestest.
Teddy Towncrier CPP Towncrier-Media.com Supercharging Your Visions.
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| Oct 03, 2009 12:58 pm | | re: e: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Scott Wolpow | | Still have my NES Powermate 25 megahertz 386 with 8 meg ram and 110 meg HD with windows 3.11 and it still runs.
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| Oct 03, 2009 1:19 pm | | Re: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Teddy Towncrier | |
@Scott. ... I think I have one of those Compaq luggables around with "Phone Director"
card that takes the message and instantly; Sends it to my voice pager. (No Cell minutes used).
Difficulty finding a voice mail supplier that can provide a $10/Mth voice pager service
Bestest.
Teddy Towncrier CPP Towncrier-Media.com Supercharging Your Visions.
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| Oct 03, 2009 3:09 pm | | re: Re: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Ron Sam | | In my collection I have a like new Xerox 820-II Z80 cpu they called an Information Processor. It Ran CP/M and had no hard disk it ran on a dual floppy with a whopping 980KB of space. It included a Diablo 630 daisy wheel printer that looks like a typewriter.
While working at Xerox they had a deal to not charge interest charges to the $4400.00 price tag and had a payment plan for 3-years as a deduction on your paycheck to make it painless. I think this was back in 1983 or 1984. A year later the IBM PC came out running Windows and there was an employee deal to buy the Xerox version for around $3k. I was annoyed and never bough any more of those in-house Xerox "Deals".
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=487
What TV show in that museum? I didn't see anything about that.
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| Oct 03, 2009 3:41 pm | | re: re: Re: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Scott Wolpow | | Bad joke. It is the "WeEbster" museum. As in Emanuel Lewis. You know where Micheal Jackson lost his other white glove up his butt.
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| Oct 03, 2009 7:41 pm | | re: re: re: Re: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Heidi Caswell | | Computers have changed much. I remember taking 1 programing class (basic) many years back. Our programs were saved on this long ticker tape looking paper. I was thinking how it all would be lost if it got ripped, etc.
I was home during a break from school. My dad was happy to see me. He was finishing up some things for his masters. He was working with fortran. He would feed keypunched cards to a computer which took a whole room. He didn't know how to use a keypunch machine. He'd hire someone to punch the cards, drive 1 hour away to his school, feed the machine. It'd spit out syntax errors, etc. He'd hire the lady to punch more cards, drive back to the college, etc.
I could keypunch, so I went with him, feed the computer, fixed minor errors, punched new cards etc while he worked on fixing bugs, next section of program, etc. Got it finished.
I'm betting that my laptop can do so much more than that old beast. And so many nice ways to save your data.
Heidi Caswell
http://connectsimply.com
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| Oct 03, 2009 8:13 pm | | re: re: re: re: Re: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Scott Wolpow | | I was looking the other day for a key to reading tape. On my old math book with forumlas and tangent tables there is a graphic os a paper tape. I wonder what it said.
I found one for sale.
http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/plu/PAQ22370.shtml
I also remember my sister using my back-up of a program as streamer decorations for her party. One roll held 1k of data I think. I used western union teletype @ 75 baud. That is about 75 bits a second. Cable speed is at least 1 meg per second or 1,000,000 bits.
An OC3 is 100 times faster.
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| Oct 04, 2009 5:50 am | | re: re: re: re: re: Re: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Ron Sam | | re: bad joke
I never watched Webster (friend of MJ) on TV.
Only Webster I recalled was in the 50s;
Webster Webfoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k16rpFSTD8
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| Oct 04, 2009 2:30 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: Re: History of the Hard Drives | # |
Reg Charie | | One of the local shops here had an old hard drive that measured about 18" across and had a drive motor the size of a car starter.
Never did find out what it came from.
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