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| Thread ID: 61384 | 2005-09-03 02:55:00 | Godzilla-Size Hard Drives | Terry Porritt (14) | PC World Chat |
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| 385568 | 2005-09-03 02:55:00 | Here's what Stan Miaskowski had to say in PC World, August 1998: "Hard drives are getting so big they're almost scary. Who really needs 8 gigabytes of storage, much less one of those gargantuan 14GB drives that are shipping with Pentium II 350 and 400MHz PCs these days? If you don't use your PC for more than a few basic applications, anything beyond 2GB is overkill. ............." Here's what Mckinney's Cotton Pickers had to say in 1930: You're Driving Me Crazy (www.redhotjazz.com) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 385569 | 2005-09-03 03:00:00 | all I know is that when I built my P3 450/128mb ram/Voodoo 3 agp/13Gb harddrive I was the envy of geeks the world over..... | Metla (12) | ||
| 385570 | 2005-09-03 03:34:00 | I had trouble filling more than 20% of my first hard drive which had a total of 52mb. | pctek (84) | ||
| 385571 | 2005-09-03 05:03:00 | Apple Macintosh Portable Model: M5120 Announced: September 1989 Price: US$7300 w/ hard drive Weight: 16 lbs CPU: Motorola 68HC000, 16Mhz RAM: 1 Meg, 9 Meg maximum Battery: 6.5-Volt, 5 amp lead acid (gel type) Display: 10-inch b&w active matrix LCD 640 X 400 pixels I/O: Built-in trackball. Ports: Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) Two serial ports External SCSI port External floppy port Video port Storage: Internal 1.4Meg 3.5-inch floppy drive Internal 40 MB SCSI hard drive OS: Mac OS 6.04 |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 385572 | 2005-09-03 05:16:00 | 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. I use to sell these. Have kept price lists and pamphlets in my archives. Sort they might come handy one day. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 385573 | 2005-09-03 16:34:00 | Not far enough back there . Remember the Texas Instruments "Pocket Calculators"? Remember the costs? I think, remembering MAYBE correctly here, that they were over $2,000 US then . Today, standing on line at one of our "big box" stores (Walmart) I saw dual-powered student calculators with plotting graphics, scientific notation, rpl and appropos, 2-memory banks for k constants, and all for $1 . 98 US . There are messaging greeting cards with sayings to suit the occasion with more rom in them than my old C>64 or C>128 . I also remember the New York Worlds' Fair prophetically saying that the advent of the atomic age would bring about free electricity because the cost of nuclear generation was so cheap and never-ending, the utility companies would give it away after returning their initial building costs . Uh huh . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 385574 | 2005-09-03 22:28:00 | Not far enough back there . Remember the Texas Instruments "Pocket Calculators"? Remember the costs? I think, remembering MAYBE correctly here, that they were over $2,000 US then . Today, standing on line at one of our "big box" stores (Walmart) I saw dual-powered student calculators with plotting graphics, scientific notation, rpl and appropos, 2-memory banks for k constants, and all for $1 . 98 US . There are messaging greeting cards with sayings to suit the occasion with more rom in them than my old C>64 or C>128 . I also remember the New York Worlds' Fair prophetically saying that the advent of the atomic age would bring about free electricity because the cost of nuclear generation was so cheap and never-ending, the utility companies would give it away after returning their initial building costs . Uh huh . I still think atomic power is the way in will go,long term . |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 385575 | 2005-09-04 04:46:00 | Me too, Cicero...the tree-huggers be damned...nucs are clean and safe if they don't get into the hands of a terrorist..or Jane Fonda...remember the movie? (The China Syndrome) Actually, I'd like to see breeder reactors running all over the place...kinda perpetual motion...wot? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 385576 | 2005-09-04 04:51:00 | I still think atomic power is the way in will go,long term. We are having enough trouble with wind farms, people objecting to them let alone nuclear energy. I'm all for it. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 385577 | 2005-09-04 05:00:00 | Me too, Cicero...the tree-huggers be damned...nucs are clean and safe if they don't get into the hands of a terrorist..or Jane Fonda...remember the movie? (The China Syndrome) Actually, I'd like to see breeder reactors running all over the place...kinda perpetual motion...wot? Statistical fact they are safe to run,the waste still seems to be a problem,but given time that will be sorted. And Cher was in that too from memory?(The China Syndrome) |
Cicero (40) | ||
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