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| Thread ID: 57589 | 2005-05-07 00:32:00 | First hard drive | TonyF (246) | PC World Chat |
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| 352939 | 2005-05-07 02:51:00 | commodore vic 20 with a tape drive | plod (107) | ||
| 352940 | 2005-05-07 02:56:00 | 200 MB for me, followed by a 540MB. Before that it was all disk/tape based C64's or Amiga's. 1337. Now, well I work in terabytes now. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 352941 | 2005-05-07 03:20:00 | Commodore Plus 4 - 5 1/2 Inch Disk Drive and Tape but first HDD 10GB |
Dannz (1668) | ||
| 352942 | 2005-05-07 03:38:00 | I've got a 32 kiloword hard drive. These are 12-bit words. The manual has instructions on how to clean the disk: by removing the lid and using a soft cloth. :D The head/track (12 tracks ;)) version was capable of swapping out the whole memory. It was needed to run 20 users on Teletypes in the EDUC-8 system on PDP8s. The RK05 is 2.5MB (14" diameter removeable cartridge) . That's big enough to hold the OS (RT11) source code and do a SYSGEN on the PDP11. The first Micro11 I used had a 20MB (MFM) . So did my first PC. The Z80s I built didn't have disks ... not with a floppy drive costing $500. (Memory was costly enough: $300 for a 16 kB board kit). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 352943 | 2005-05-07 05:53:00 | I've got a 32 kiloword hard drive. These are 12-bit words. The manual has instructions on how to clean the disk: by removing the lid and using a soft cloth. :D The head/track (12 tracks ;)) version was capable of swapping out the whole memory. It was needed to run 20 users on Teletypes in the EDUC-8 system on PDP8s. The RK05 is 2.5MB (14" diameter removeable cartridge) . That's big enough to hold the OS (RT11) source code and do a SYSGEN on the PDP11. Haha, you win I think. Does it all work still? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 352944 | 2005-05-07 08:16:00 | 10 Megabytes on my 386. | Elephant (599) | ||
| 352945 | 2005-05-07 08:58:00 | Before being interested in PC's. we got a system to deal with dispensing at our pharmacy in about 1984.. Wow, it was a dos system, with a 10 MEGABYTE hard drive. Total cost then was $15000..half was software, & half the hardware. Seems hard to believe now. But it was a step forward. Looking back, it was very primitive. Even with only 10MB HDD, it would save all of about 20000 patients history for a year. Of cource it was only text data. The yearly archives were a pain, to 360kb 5" floppys.. Took forever. These days with montrous giggabyte HDD, we dont know how lucky we are! |
Bazza (407) | ||
| 352946 | 2005-05-07 09:24:00 | My first was a PC Direct "Dream machine" I still have the original brochure. A giant 364 megs HD. An immense 8 megs ram. And a powerful 486 DX2 CPU. Dos was on 3 floppys and Windows on 5. And they came with a 600 page instruction book. I bought separately Word 6 on about 8/10 floppys. The computer cost $2,999 plus GST. At the same time the shops were trying to get rid of their stocks of 386's selling at over $3,000. From memory the computer went backwards and forward to PC Direct about 8 times. They finally swapped it for a 486 DX4. No trouble after that. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 352947 | 2005-05-07 09:55:00 | 4.3Gb in my 1st pc, and it cost over $500 My current pc has 360Gb on board and there are a few spare 80GB on the floor.. |
EX-WESTY (221) | ||
| 352948 | 2005-05-07 21:45:00 | 10 GB double height Seagate, connected to a XT clone PC equipped with a VC20 chip running at an impressive 15 Mhz turbo speed. | BoboTheClown (5652) | ||
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