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Terabyte drive

#21
I remember when we got our first VCR back in 1984 or so. My dad took a scene in Clash of the Titans and kept rewinding it and playing it, rewinding it and playing it, then playing it in slow motion, just to show me how cool it was (the VCR, that is).
 
#22
RWP said:
I still have one of these. Worked too the last time I tried it. Tandy PC-1

pc-1.jpg
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That's beautiful.
 
#23
tplyons said:
I remember when my dad got his first 8MB hard drive. I think it was something like $700. Now, one digital photo is bigger than that.

I remember when a megapixel was a high quality, $4000 camera.

I remember when my home network was entirely coax (between two computers)

And lastly, I remember my dad's first portable computer:

compaqI.jpg


Released: March 1983
Price: US$3590 (two floppy system)
How many? 53,000 in 1983, the first year
Weight: 28 pounds.
CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
RAM: 128K, 640K max
Display: 9" monochrome monitor built-in
80 X 25 text
Color graphic card
Storage: Two 320K 5-1/4" disk drives
Ports: 1 parallel (expansion card)
OS: MS-DOS

Beat those specs. LOL.
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What's amazing to me is that today's typical cell phone beats those specs.
 
#24
tplyons said:
I remember when my dad got his first 8MB hard drive. I think it was something like $700. Now, one digital photo is bigger than that.

I remember when a megapixel was a high quality, $4000 camera.

I remember when my home network was entirely coax (between two computers)

And lastly, I remember my dad's first portable computer:

compaqI.jpg


Released: March 1983
Price: US$3590 (two floppy system)
How many? 53,000 in 1983, the first year
Weight: 28 pounds.
CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
RAM: 128K, 640K max
Display: 9" monochrome monitor built-in
80 X 25 text
Color graphic card
Storage: Two 320K 5-1/4" disk drives
Ports: 1 parallel (expansion card)
OS: MS-DOS

Beat those specs. LOL.
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I used to repair those back when they were new. Component level repair:D

Back in the late 70's one of the things I worked on was a brand new tempested dumb terminal. Cost? $30k each. At the USAF tech school I went to one of the first things we discussed was core memory. This came after tube computers.

It's pretty cool seeing the progression from then to now. The first small commercial computers I worked on had separate hard drives with 14" platters. 10 or 20MB. I recently installed an Eclipse head unit in my car that directly controls an ipod and I can connect an 8GB flash drive and control that too. That's more storage on a single flash drive than the county government ran on back in the early 90's.
:cool:
 
#27
Here's something we were talking about today at work - when will the 3.5" floppy disk stop being the de facto "Save" icon?

Most kids these days in grade school have probably never used (likely never seen) a 3.5" floppy, nor will they ever.

When will we change this ubiquitous icon, and what will we change it to?
 
#30
Munjibunga said:
We did have transistor radios, but there were no integrated circuits, so your radio would have two to six discrete transistors, each the size of a pencil eraser. Think how big a computer with 10 million transistors would be if each were that size. Let's not even talk about if they were tubes.
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Now your single quad-core computer chip might have, oh...over 800million transistors.

bc
 
#31
Wow! This brings back memories. My first PC was the Apple IIe. Does anyone remember Lode Runner? Talking about how tech moves quickly, I started with the phone company in 2000. DSL was all the rage at about 749 or so Kbps. Now with fiber to the home, (which I have) I can get 15 Mbps up and 5 Mbps downstream at my house! A T1 used to be considered awesome at 1.544 Mbps!
 
#32
Wow. 5 1/4"s. I remember playing games like Doom Shareware and the original Sim City off of 5 1/4"s. Then came the AWESOME 16-color step up from monochrome, the magic little 3 1/2", Prodigy and AOL 2.0. Damn, life was good!
 
#35
SuperDuck said:
Here's something we were talking about today at work - when will the 3.5" floppy disk stop being the de facto "Save" icon?

Most kids these days in grade school have probably never used (likely never seen) a 3.5" floppy, nor will they ever.

When will we change this ubiquitous icon, and what will we change it to?
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i almost got offended and thought "Hey, it's not that long ago, I used them just a few years ago!" and then realized how long ago it really was. I don't think even my little brother has used a floppy disk. And definitely not my sister.
 
#37
tplyons said:
I remember when my dad got his first 8MB hard drive. I think it was something like $700. Now, one digital photo is bigger than that.

I remember when a megapixel was a high quality, $4000 camera.

I remember when my home network was entirely coax (between two computers)

And lastly, I remember my dad's first portable computer:

compaqI.jpg


Released: March 1983
Price: US$3590 (two floppy system)
How many? 53,000 in 1983, the first year
Weight: 28 pounds.
CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
RAM: 128K, 640K max
Display: 9" monochrome monitor built-in
80 X 25 text
Color graphic card
Storage: Two 320K 5-1/4" disk drives
Ports: 1 parallel (expansion card)
OS: MS-DOS

Beat those specs. LOL.
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That looks very much like the first PC I ever laid hands on. Is that by chance an Osborne Executive?
 
#38
I love the new 512mb bus powered external drive I just bought for around 100 bucks. it's barely bigger than my Ipod....
 
#40
SuperDuck said:
Here's something we were talking about today at work - when will the 3.5" floppy disk stop being the de facto "Save" icon?

Most kids these days in grade school have probably never used (likely never seen) a 3.5" floppy, nor will they ever.

When will we change this ubiquitous icon, and what will we change it to?
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Hopefully we make saves automatic and drop the thing altogether.
 

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