How Big was your first hard drive?

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  • Dave H - 9 years ago

    I "up graded" from a Commodore 164 to a MacPlus set up that at the time cost about $2000. It had 128kb RAM and 512kb hard drive. I bought a "huge" external 40mb drive for it. Now, there are smart phones that do more than that computer did.
    When I started working for State Farm, I was given a signing bonus because I knew about punch cards, reel to reel tape drives, microfiche cards and readers, all three sizes of floppy disks and could write BASIC and ASCII programming. Your age is showing if that sentence made sense!

  • Greg Nuspel - 9 years ago

    Does anyone else remember loading programs off cassette tape? Or the 5 1/4" 256K floppy? The PDP8 I used had 8" floppies now kids don't even know what a floppy is.

  • spectremanLIVE - 9 years ago

    OH!!! I almost forgot! That's not even mentioning the HD video that'll be coming off our DSLR or the UHD video that'll be coming off my cell phone!

  • spectremanLIVE - 9 years ago

    I had 5he first desktop I ever purchased custom built back in the 90s because, as an aspiring illustrator, I knew I needed more focus than nearly all of the shelf boxes offered. It had a 30GB HDD that ran at 7200 RPM, I believe.

    The first external drive I ever bought, however, was about 100GB and was just a regular 3.5" WD internal drive that I put into a cheap, powered drive enclosure. I remember making a financial sacrifice as drives of that capacity were just filtering onto the consumer market and were cost prohibitive.

    Just a few years ago, I bought a WD MyBook 1TB drove for next to nothing. I'm now on the market for a multi TB drive to share with my wife for the photos of our new baby that we've started accumulating. Especially since I'm, more often than not, shooting RAW these days.

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