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| Thread ID: 150920 | 2022-10-04 22:44:00 | Curious - do you subscribe to online storage? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1488714 | 2022-10-08 00:33:00 | I know this is a bit of a "we lived in a paper bag in the middle of the road" answer but our first PC only had a 20MB HDD. Huge after the Commodore 64 then the Sinclair before that! Ken :) |
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| 1488715 | 2022-10-08 01:11:00 | My first computer was a commodore 64 as well but my first hard drive was an external drive for my 2nd computer, an Atari ST. It was 32MB and I had to split it into 3 partitions because the Atari could only address 16MB of storage and memory total at a time. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1488716 | 2022-10-08 01:28:00 | "we lived in a paper bag in the middle of the road" Ken :) I remember it well: www.youtube.com |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1488717 | 2022-10-08 02:07:00 | Yea my first was a Commodore as well - an Amiga in the very late 80's And when you talk about storage, I recall when we bought our first PC, late 70s early 80s, we had a massive 500 Mb HD and wondered what we would do with all that amount of room.:waughh: really? what make computer and hdd was that? Initially, personal computers had very limited, almost negligible storage capabilities. Some used perforated paper tape for storage. Others used audio cassettes. Eventually, personal computers would write data to floppy disk drives. And over time, the cost of hard disk drives fell enough that PC users could have one, too. In 1980, a young upstart company named Shugart Technology introduced a 5MB hard disk drive designed to fit into personal computers of the day. It was a scant 5.25 inches in diameter. The drive cost $1,500. It would prove popular enough to become a de facto standard for PCs throughout the 1980s. Shugart changed its name to Seagate Technology. Yep. That Seagate. www.backblaze.com 1980 – The IBM 3380 was the world's first gigabyte-capacity disk drive. Two 1.26 GB, head disk assemblies (essentially two HDDs) were packaged in a cabinet the size of a refrigerator, weighed 455 kg (1000 lb), and had a price tag of US$81,000 (Model B4) which is US$266,391 in present-day terms. en.wikipedia.org |
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| 1488718 | 2022-10-08 04:27:00 | [QUOTE=bevy121;1318822]really? what make computer and hdd was that?[QUOTE/] As I recall, I think it was a ZX Sinclair - ZX81. I have no idea what sort of hdd, though. Do you think I have the size wrong? I can't be certain about that. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1488719 | 2022-10-08 06:00:00 | Not sure what you are thinking, certainly not the late 70's ZX80 was introduced 1980 and ZX81 was 1981 No hard drives - they used tape cassette's for storage, and the write speed was around 300 bps max (yea that's bits per second) So to write 1 megabyte of data would take about 7 - 8 hours using both sides of the tape |
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| 1488720 | 2022-10-08 07:08:00 | My first computer was built by me with a kit that was sold by Dick Smith in about 1973. Programed in Basic and storage was on cassette tape. It was very limited but it did teach me a lot. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1488721 | 2022-10-08 07:52:00 | Sinclair ZX81. It worked with only 1K of RAM. I bought a 16K card which plugged in the back. Cost a fortune and was pretty crappy. Progressed to a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16. Then Commodore 64, then the 286 with a 20 GB HDD. Aah the power :) Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1488722 | 2022-10-08 08:24:00 | kenj, think you meant 20MB | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1488723 | 2022-10-08 08:46:00 | Oops, only out a little bit :) Got it right in the earlier post . Ken |
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