Terabyte drive

[i_got_a_mohawk]

I remember my first windows 95 PC. It had a 4Gb drive, now that was massive!

Now im running two 320Gb drives in a stripped raid and two 500Gb drives in a mirrored raid!

Also remember, back in the early 90's, seeing in my Amiga magazine, it was possible to upgrade from 512 Kb of ram, to 1Mb of ram for only a few hundred!


I cant wait for us to move away from conventional mechanical harddrives tho, so much more promise in SS Drives

 

[The Owl]

I first got computer literate on a Mac Plus like this, a whopping 2 Megs of RAM, and it even had a 20 Meg external HD.

 

[DWBass]

I remember running DOS PC's long before Windows or mice (early to mid 80's). All keystrokes baby!! Black screen with green font. Less than a MB HD, 5-1/4" floppies! Dialing into the internet using 8k modems and accessing limited BBS systems! Ahhh...those were the days!

I do recall a couple of friends running Amiga ST's in ther home studios and that was the first time I saw a mouse! Screen was sorta grayish with orange looking font running a sequencing program (can't recall the brand, may have been the first gen. of Cubase or something)!

 

[john turner]

When I graduated from college, there was no such thing as a PC. When I was in 10th grade, there were no calculators, cell phones, CDs, iPods, MP3s, digital cameras, GPS, laser pointers, Wiis, Gameboys, HDTVs nor the greatest invention of all time, the TV remote control.

-undeletes the following from munji's post : "when i was in first grade, wheels were still square".

 

[john turner]

apple ][e ftw! that was my first computer, back in '82. still have it, still boots.

and you guys think this is crazy, wait till the first memristor-based tech hits the streets.

 

[jazzy grille]

That is a 20 year old IBM 1 gig Hard-drive...

Computers have come a long way and they are advancing at a dizzying pace. It feels like just yesterday I was playing doom on an insanely fast Pentium 166 system with 32.0 MB of ram.. LOL.

Now I have a Quad-Core Q9450 2.66Ghz with 4 gigs of PC3-10666 and it boots-up in under a half-minuet.

/nerd

Speaking of technology.. Does anyone remember how awesome OpenGL was when it hit the market with games like Quake2 and others? God that was great, now looking back it all looks like it's baby food colored.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

apple ][e ftw! that was my first computer, back in '82. still have it, still boots.

and you guys think this is crazy, wait till the first memristor-based tech hits the streets.

I had a IIe back in the early 80s as well- the state had given it to me to find productive ways to work with my blindness. Little did they know how much Marble Madness and Space Invaders I'd play on that thing.....

 

[KeithBMI]

Remember the original gameboy?

It didn't even have a color screen.

How did we survive in those days?

 

[RWP]

All this incredible technology and still no hologram projected gaming images in my living room?

 

[Brad Johnson]

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!

Remember 8" floppy disks?

 

[Kyon`]

Still waiting on my robot girlfriend... >,>; what

Yeah it's amazing just to see the price drop and change in technology. Recently I purchased a 750 gig external drive for $200 and it's about the size of small novel, and now got a new 250 gig that's just a tad bigger then a video ipod. My first computer monitor was like 12" or something and my first computer weighed something rivaling my 4x10 I believe and I was excited to type my first papers on it. Now I'm playing video games in HD!!!@@# WOOHOO@!#!@

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Speaking of technology.. Does anyone remember how awesome OpenGL was when it hit the market with games like Quake2 and others? God that was great, now looking back it all looks like it's baby food colored.

OpenGL FTW!

 

[peterbright]

I remember when we first trained the mice to run the abacus. You had to keep a pocket full of corn to motivate them.

 

[SBassman]

At work, we're up to about 400 terabytes of storage.

When we run out of space on our file server, guess what the cause is?
People stowing their personal MP3s away.

We actually run a script every few months that walks across all the storage
and deletes any found MP3s or video files.

 

[Yngwie 4String]

was born in 1988 but I had a black and white TV and a collecovision.

 

[SoComSurfing]

Remember 8" floppy disks?

A bit before my time there. We got our first computer roughly '87, when I was 4.

 

[fdeck]

At the USAF tech school I went to one of the first things we discussed was core memory.

At my day job, we just moved into some empty space to start a new project. One of the old-timers said to me: "Hey, this is the room where we used to thread the core memories."

 

[fdeck]

From my basement, here is 4096 bits of memory:

 

[Brad Johnson]

At my day job, we just moved into some empty space to start a new project. One of the old-timers said to me: "Hey, this is the room where we used to thread the core memories."

Ever see someone drop a rack of punch cards? Hilarious.

 

[Brad Johnson]

From my basement, here is 4096 bits of memory:

Looks like something I'd find in my basement. I still have break out boxes, the little blue book with ASCII codes and all sorts of useless stuff. Even a 300 baud modem. Yep, 300. Worked great on bulletin boards.

I remember repairing dot matrix printheads, rebuilding laser printers from the chassis up, aligning heads on floppy drives, slapping hard drives to free up heads and all sorts of fun stuff.
Wang computers, AT&T PCs from Italy, degaussing monitors, swaaping platters (no clean room) to recover data...


Good times.