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| Thread ID: 92472 | 2008-08-11 21:08:00 | Where will it end? | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 696545 | 2008-08-11 21:08:00 | Pioneer has announced a half a terrabyte disc that stores the equivalent of 100 DVDs . HD currently stores 50Gb using dual layer but the Pioneer prototype has 20 layers!:waughh: Pioneer says that with HDD broadcasting we will all eventually need half a terrabyte on a recordable disc . Where will it end? |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 696546 | 2008-08-11 21:57:00 | Just wait a few years, by then a half-terabyte disc will be tiny. :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 696547 | 2008-08-12 01:46:00 | My first PC (A Mac II) had a whopping 3MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive . A 40MB hard drive ! :lol: The first PC we had in the house (my mum's) had two 5 . 25-inch floppy drives . The first C I used (at school) had a tape drive . They all seem like things of the distant past now . No doubt paltry 320GB drives will soon be no different . |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 696548 | 2008-08-12 01:50:00 | Arrrr, well, the first computer I worked on filled a very big room, had 16K words of memory and one enormous removable-disk drive. Them were the days.... Tell you what though, it was fun. |
annie (6010) | ||
| 696549 | 2008-08-12 02:21:00 | I remember getting my first computer when I was 6 - a Commodore Vic 20 with 1K RAM, no sound, and 4 colours!! Used to sit up all night with dad typing BASIC commands (2000 sodding POKE commands etc!!) so I'd have games to play!! Ahh those were the days! |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 696550 | 2008-08-12 02:28:00 | My (family's) first PC was a Pentium II with Win 95 (bought in 1997). 2GB HD, 32MB RAM. :eek: I remember we couldn't play a particular game (name escapes me) after we had been on the internet... My oldest PC that I still have is an old Compaq LTE Elite laptop (80486 - 75MHz, 170MB HD, 12MB RAM) - bought it at a garage sale for $10 :D Cost over $12000 NZ new apparently (3820 pounds) :eek: |
jwil1 (65) | ||
| 696551 | 2008-08-12 08:27:00 | Arrrr, well, the first computer I worked on filled a very big room, had 16K words of memory and one enormous removable-disk drive. Them were the days.... Tell you what though, it was fun. And back with compiling a COBOL program with 12K of memory. Back to the day of punched cards as well. I never had a removable disk drive at that time as they were approximately the size of my current washing machine. Burroughs B3500 for your info. Around 1968-9 |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 696552 | 2008-08-12 09:00:00 | I remember we had a stick, It was shared amongst 4 families. | Metla (12) | ||
| 696553 | 2008-08-12 09:34:00 | Me used to make smoke signals, that was our email system. After they invented the wheel we got a C64 :lol: | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
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