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On 09/12/2022 00:45, Dale wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> On Friday, 9 December 2022 00:03:29 GMT Dale wrote: |
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>>> I think back sometimes, I started out with a 30GB hard drive waaaay back |
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>>> in 2003. I thought I had problems then. |
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>> Then you won't want to know that I paid extra in 1990 for an 85MB drive in my |
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>> first PC. No, not GB: MB. |
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> I worked at a puter place in the late 80's. They had old hard drives |
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> that were only a few MBs and had 14" platters. Yes, 14" platters. |
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> Funny thing is, you could replace the platters in those. You open the |
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> drive, replace platter, reassemble drive, turn on fan which had a hefty |
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> filter on the intake. Once it ran long enough to have clean air inside, |
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> spin up the drive and go back to work. |
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> I even remember when 512KBs of ram was a big deal. I also remember |
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> having expansion cards that would add a few MBs of ram. Jeez I'm |
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> getting old. o_O We talk about TBs like they are nothing. My first |
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> puter was a old Vic-20. 4Kbs of ram it had. I played music on that |
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> thing and freaked my Dad out. ROFL |
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I remember those things. About 16 MB per platter. I remember my work |
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buying a 300MB drive (19 platters in a disk pack, the size of a washing |
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machine) for our multi-user mini that served the entire company with |
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256KB of ram ... |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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