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A 5MB hard drive in 1956

DoYouEvenLift

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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kingtiger

wonder what the RPM was on that baby

Uncle Ruckus

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

BoJack Horseman

Yeah, but it still ran Quake pretty well.

BeerWolf

kingtiger wrote: »

wonder what the RPM was on that baby

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

Generic Dreadhead

Going for a new threads submitted record or something?

[Deleted User]

Cormac... wrote: »

Going for a new threads submitted record or something?

Do you even thread, bro?

DoYouEvenLift

Cormac... wrote: »

Going for a new threads submitted record or something?

Thanks for the bump.

Generic Dreadhead

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you even thread, bro?

Occasionally, and usually with poor results.

SEPT 23 1989

picture is a fake

kingtiger

found some info on it

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

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

The_Chap

That's some transfer rate right there

ScumLord

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.

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:

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?

jimgoose

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:

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.

stimpson

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

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

inforfun

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

jimgoose

Alun wrote: »

I've still got a box of 8" ones

<SNORK!>

Mister Vain

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Anyone remember the zip drives?

I remember Cloud Strife.

Ruu

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

:cool:

Sephiroth_dude

stimpson wrote: »

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

How much could one of them store?

jimgoose

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

How much could one of them store?

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

The_Valeyard

I heard it had porn on it.

ScumLord

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.

NachoBusiness

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

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

Capt'n Midnight

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.

Sephiroth_dude

jimgoose wrote: »

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

KB? We've come so far since then