Wow! 40MB hardrive - whoop whoop

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:D Was stripping some old written off PCs today and found a 40MB hard drive, which I remember installing years ago. At the time I was so excited about this massive amount of storage! Now my digital camera will fill it up with only 10 photos! It's mind boggling how fast things have changed.
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PS: For sale. 40MB hard drive. Mint condition. Only one owner. R850.00 (Hey! That's what I paid for it back then!);)



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It's what we called a 3.5" floppy ;)

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I have 2 x Brand new Kalok 40Mb hard drives still sealed in their original packaging. I have no idea why I still keep them. Maybe they can go to a museum one day. Ha Ha
 
The ZX Spectrum! That was advanced!

I wrote my first "custom financial application" on this:
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Enter about 15 variables, press Enter and hope the dreaded RAM-white-out didn't clear memory, and after about 1 minute a full five-year projection would emerge on the silver toilet-paper (thermal) printer. Man it was fast!

Sir Clive's full-page adverts said you could run a power station with one of these.
Three months later I got a Superbrain.
 
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ITCynic said:
I have 2 x Brand new Kalok 40Mb hard drives still sealed in their original packaging. I have no idea why I still keep them. Maybe they can go to a museum one day. Ha Ha
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You may laugh now, but think about how future generations will be able to read our information storage. They won't know anything about mag drives and how they work, about the format, the file structure, the transfer, etc. Show Thomas Edison, the inventor of the phonograph, a CD. Tell him it has music on, like his phonograph. He wouldn't have the faintest idea how to reproduce the music stored on that CD :p

So if an archaeologist a thousand years from now excavates a Bluray or DVD-R, how will they know to retrieve the information that can tell them all about our civilisation? You're going to need a high-tech Rosetta stone to translate for you, something that will still be totally legible to our many-times descendants in the far future.

Edit: Also, think about the hardware. You will have to give detailed instructions on building an optical drive, including the frequency of the laser, power output etc. That's assuming humans are more advanced a thousand years from now :p
 
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Sorry I was a Commodore 64 man. ZX spectrum was for the cheap skates. I started with a tapedeck and later upgraded to a Floppy drive that didn't take years to give you a syntax error on bload's. My 1st Intel PC was a 8086 with 4 color CGA graphics and 2 floppy drives.

At this time I was working on a Unysis A series Mainframe that housed the size of a minivan. Our 5 Gig drives for the server was the size of a microwave and a cold boot took a whole weekend to complete.
 
I have a stick of PC 133 RAM on my desk, 128Mb, with the original Incredible Connection price sticker still on it - R1,399.00. The mind boggles...
 
we got a 215mb harddrive and all our friends were drooling. Some guys piped up that he had heard of a jiji-byte harddrive that was 1000mb. everyone cracked up- ja Philip ja
 
Eventually found a picture - a print - no digital camera's then. This was my second computer - 20MB Hard drive, a stiffy drive and a floppy drive. The kid in the picture is now at varsity! ....

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And the old, arcane DOS commands... :D

Had a friend with a Kalok HDD - it packed up as predicted.

I had a Seagate 40Mb. It was rock solid and reliable,. You could kick it across the room, and it still worked. I even slapped it very hard when it was in operation, want to see if I could get the heads to crash. Didn't happen.

In contrast (and nearly 15 years later) I did the same to a 40Gb HDD - it crashed and died :D
 
I had a 16meg hard drive here a while back.

Bigger than a cdrom!

Oldest I have here at present is a 128meg.
 
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