On 09/12/2022 00:45, Dale wrote:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday, 9 December 2022 00:03:29 GMT Dale wrote:
I think back sometimes, I started out with a 30GB hard drive waaaay back
in 2003. I thought I had problems then.
Then you won't want to know that I paid extra in 1990 for an 85MB drive in my
first PC. No, not GB: MB.
I worked at a puter place in the late 80's. They had old hard drives
that were only a few MBs and had 14" platters. Yes, 14" platters.
Funny thing is, you could replace the platters in those. You open the
drive, replace platter, reassemble drive, turn on fan which had a hefty
filter on the intake. Once it ran long enough to have clean air inside,
spin up the drive and go back to work.
I even remember when 512KBs of ram was a big deal. I also remember
having expansion cards that would add a few MBs of ram. Jeez I'm
getting old. o_O We talk about TBs like they are nothing. My first
puter was a old Vic-20. 4Kbs of ram it had. I played music on that
thing and freaked my Dad out. ROFL
I remember those things. About 16 MB per platter. I remember my work
buying a 300MB drive (19 platters in a disk pack, the size of a washing
machine) for our multi-user mini that served the entire company with
256KB of ram ...
Cheers,
Wol
