The Register : Oldest working Seagate HDD found

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/06/oldest_seagate_drive_in_uk/

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Seagate reckons it has found the oldest working Seagate disk drive in the UK: a 28-year-old ST-412 disk drive from 1983.

It is the drive for an old IBM PC, which booted up when it was brought down from owner Mitch Hansen's attic in his Ruislip house. The 5.25-inch disk has four platters, eight read and write heads, spins at 3,600rpm, weighs 2.1kg (4.1lbs) and holds just 10MB of data. Seagate says it would have cost £263 back in 1983.
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In those days 10Mb was a whopping lot... DOS was 3Mb or so...

*sigh*

nostalgia...
 
My first one was 20mb.

And for me to install Kings Quest 10, I had to remove everything else on the HD, except command.com, autoexec.bat and config.sys (and some other stupid drivers), but you get the point.

Oh, and I was still short by about 300k in the end.
 
Haha that's awesome :D I wonder if you can get an external USB 5.25" case for that, can carry around the first few seconds of the latest episode of House around on it.
 
What a relief it was not to have to load application software with multiple 5 1/4" floppies.

Ah, nostalgia indeed!
 
bleugh

doing the floppy disk shuffle only to find out disk#3 (or the next-to-last disk) have an unrecoverable read error... >.<
 
Pure nostalgia! I think the oldest working one I still have is a 20MB Seagate HDD (or was it WD) - I remember the terrible noises it made when booting up and shutting down... the thing with those solid drives was that you could drop them and they still worked - most of the time! :D
 
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