| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 61384 | 2005-09-03 02:55:00 | Godzilla-Size Hard Drives | Terry Porritt (14) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 385578 | 2005-09-04 05:25:00 | In my Amiga days You could get 20 and 40 meg. hard drives. Prices were 20 meg HD $916 40meg HD $1490, 8meg ram card populated with 2meg ram chips $1895. Star NX 1000 Black Dot Matrix Printer $831 colour version $1068 July 1989.1984/5 - My first PC was a Sanyo 555, 2 256k floppies, 256k RAM no HDD, green 13" monitor. Cost? about $6000! (in 1984!) | Tony (4941) | ||
| 385579 | 2005-09-04 06:59:00 | Well it is almost true these days. No need for typcial business users to use more than 20 GB drives but 40 GB is the minimum and even 80 GB with some models. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 385580 | 2005-09-04 08:04:00 | I still think atomic power is the way in will go,long term. It won't happen here in NZ, even if politics / people allow nuke power. Simply, it will be too expensive. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 385581 | 2005-09-04 08:33:00 | Considering the nostagia here, I recalled pc's in the 1980's. I had used a Commodore 64, then jumped into a system for my pharmacy. Just the latest hi tech thing. These were used for recording prescription details & patient records, + they printed the medicine label & calculated the cost. Wow ! It was a great advance. Previously we had to hand write these in a big book & type the label. But looking back it was so costly, compared with what we can get today. It was a modest dos system with, wait for it - a 10 mb hdd....and would you believe all that cost $15,000. Half for hardware & half for software. There was an on going monthly fee for updating the script details & pricing. We dispensed about 25,000 scripts per year with patient records, and that little 10mb hdd saved all that. Just once per year one had to archive the data to 5" floppys. Took forever & many many floppys. I still have a 10mb hdd from an XT pc years ago. It is the size of 2 bricks. But now having installed a Seagate 120gb hdd, I am amazed how they have made them so small, and good value from what was before. I guess it is progress, and so we all benefit from that.. |
Bazza (407) | ||
| 385582 | 2005-09-04 10:33:00 | It won't happen here in NZ, even if politics / people allow nuke power. Simply, it will be too expensive. Now that we have established what wont work,what will? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 385583 | 2005-09-04 11:56:00 | everyone knows fusion is the way of the future... once we can figure out how to make power out of it :). No trouble with power then! | DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 385584 | 2005-09-06 02:22:00 | Now that we have established what wont work,what will? A bloody big wind turbine outside the beehive, |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 385585 | 2005-09-06 03:02:00 | My first computer was advertised as having an immense 8mb of ram and an immense 345mb hard drive . Also a FAST double speed CD Rom . Ram sold for $99 . 95 per MB . And a giant monitor was a 15" . Twelve months later PC World was telling everyone to "get a gig" . A whole gigabyte Hard Disk . Funny thing though I only ever got my 345 meg drive half full . MS Dos on two floppies . Windows 5 floppies . and MS Word 6 7 Floppies . |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 385586 | 2005-09-06 03:07:00 | My first computer was advertised as having an immense 8mb of ram and an immense 345mb hard drive . Also a FAST double speed CD Rom . Ram sold for $99 . 95 per MB . And a giant monitor was a 15" . Twelve months later PC World was telling everyone to "get a gig" . A whole gigabyte Hard Disk . Funny thing though I only ever got my 345 meg drive half full . MS Dos on two floppies . Windows 5 floppies . and MS Word 6 7 Floppies . Try putting your flight sim on and see if that fills it up for you . :thumbs: |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||