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A 5MB hard drive in 1956

  • 02-03-2015 01:53PM
    #1
    DoYouEvenLift
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    B_DmKPdWoAApRSy.jpg:large


    I'm going to hug my 2TB HDD later as a token of my appreciation for not being the size of a washing machine.


    It's also hard to imagine floppy disks memory were something to boast about not too long ago.


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  • #2
    kingtiger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    wonder what the RPM was on that baby


  • #3
    Uncle Ruckus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭Uncle Ruckus


    Unbelievable. Every year the size of the average internal Hdd of laptops seem to become bigger and bigger.


  • #4
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,247 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Yeah, but it still ran Quake pretty well.


  • #5
    BeerWolf
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    kingtiger wrote: »
    wonder what the RPM was on that baby

    Probably be like 0.01kb/s read/write times.


  • #6
    Generic Dreadhead
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    Going for a new threads submitted record or something?


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    Cormac... wrote: »
    Going for a new threads submitted record or something?

    Do you even thread, bro?


  • #8
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Cormac... wrote: »
    Going for a new threads submitted record or something?


    Thanks for the bump.


  • #9
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Do you even thread, bro?

    Occasionally, and usually with poor results.


  • #10
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    picture is a fake


  • #11
    kingtiger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    found some info on it

    http://www.wired.com/2014/01/tech-time-warp-ibm-ramac/


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  • #12
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,557 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    picture is a fake
    No it's not ...

    http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html


  • #13
    The_Chap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭The_Chap


    That's some transfer rate right there


  • #14
    ScumLord
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    kingtiger wrote: »
    wonder what the RPM was on that baby
    Depends on who was turning the hand crack. John Joe could get it up to 0.03kb per second.


  • #15
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Ye youngsters with ye're ferrite core memory and reliable mass-storage. Gimme a Royal McBee LGP-30 with an IBM 533 punched-card reader. :cool:


  • #16
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

    It's also hard to imagine floppy disks memory were something to boast about not too long ago.

    Anyone remember the zip drives?

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



  • #17
    jimgoose
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    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Anyone remember the zip drives?

    Aye, and Jaz drives. I also remember looking at an Olivetti PC-AT compatible with a trouser-flapping 20MB hard-disk in a computer shop in Limerick in the late '80s, and thinking you couldn't get more of a horse of a maw-shine. :pac:


  • #18
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,557 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Anyone remember the zip drives?
    Indeed I do. I sold one to someone on adverts.ie only a couple of years ago in fact! Turns out they're much in demand as there's an old but popular music synthesizer that takes them.


  • #19
    stimpson
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    I remember when having a 5 1/4 inch floppy was something to boast about.


  • #20
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,557 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    stimpson wrote: »
    I remember when having a 5 1/4 inch floppy was something to boast about.
    I've still got a box of 8" ones :D


  • #21
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Novell 3.2 came on floppies.
    About 45 of them.....


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  • #22
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Alun wrote: »
    I've still got a box of 8" ones :D

    <SNORK!> :)


  • #23
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Anyone remember the zip drives?

    I remember Cloud Strife.


  • #24
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWYutpa6UEk


    :cool:


  • #25
    Sephiroth_dude
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    stimpson wrote: »
    I remember when having a 5 1/4 inch floppy was something to boast about.

    How much could one of them store?

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



  • #26
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    How much could one of them store?

    160kB, 320kB, or 1.2MB depending on the evolution.


  • #27
    The_Valeyard
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    I heard it had porn on it.


  • #28
    ScumLord
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    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    I heard it had porn on it.
    Well, obviously it had porn on it. I'd say the guys would be shocked by both the technological advances and the advances in porn that's been made since that hard drive.


  • #29
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Kids today. They don't know they're born.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAcZpQCLb4E


  • #30
    Capt'n Midnight
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    kingtiger wrote: »
    wonder what the RPM was on that baby
    I'd be more worried about the inertia. If it wasn't bolted to the floor it would probably start hopping around the place and take off through the nearest wall.


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  • #31
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    jimgoose wrote: »
    160kB, 320kB, or 1.2MB depending on the evolution.

    KB? We've come so far since then :D

    "The robin in the garden,

    That was me,

    I'm still here, Loving you..

    Until we meet again. "



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