1GB 20 years ago and 1GB Now.

[texas1928]

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Does that thing have an exhaust system and a pullcord to start it?

Wow... And I've seen that they're now fitting 4Gig into cards that size, for less than $100.00 each.

[texas1928]

2. I know what you mean.

And that is just the hard drive, that does not include all the other components.

[TommyO]

13. I have a 4Gb Sandisk Extreme III, purchased for $85!

It's great to be able to take 384 raw shots on my camera without having to swap cards four times.

[musette_sf]

25. you said it

the mighty Winchester Evinrude model :-)

[Xithras]

3. Heck, that's compact.

The first one gig hard drive was an IBM tower system introduced in 1980. It was the size of a refrigerator, weighed 500 pounds, and cost about 50 grand.

I still remember getting my first one gig hard drive in 1995 when I was prepping my computer for Windows 95. The hard drive alone cost me about a grand, but it was worth it since I could NEVER hope to actually fill that much disk space. I still own it...and the 25Mhz 486DX it was installed in.

[texas1928]

5. I said that about 10 Gigs.

And I did it.

[TommyO]

14. My first hard drive was a 100Meg SCSI marvel that came in at just

under $10 per meg, it cost me $985, that didn't include the $260 SCSI interface card for my Amiga.

What's scary is that a few months back put one terabyte of storage in my PowerMac and it cost me under $250, how times have changed. Next stop, three more 500Gb drives.

[Xithras]

27. Well, my first HDD ever was an 8MB MFM drive.

That wasn't very big even in its day, but it beat swapping out 360k floppies all day, and it eliminated the need for a boot disk.

I picked it up used and still spent a couple hundred bucks on it.

Coolest drive I ever owned though was an 550MB ESDI. I owned it in the 386 days when 550MB was freaking HUGE. The drive was too. It was a triple height drive...meaning it took three full 5 1/4 bays. The drive took a full two minutes to spin up when you turned the machine on, screamed like a turbine once it got up to speed, and took...no exageration...eight minutes to spin back down once you powered off. I took it apart when it finally died and found 32 platters inside. They rather than worry about density, they took 32 20MB platters and stacked them into one massive housing. It was an ingenious design for its day.

The greatest thing about the drive was that it was free. I used to know a guy who bought electronic scrap from insurance companies, and he'd rip it apart and sell the pieces at flea markets around Northern California. He pulled two of them from a burnt server and decided they were paperweights when he couldn't figure out how to get them to work on his MFM controller. He had no clue was ESDI was, and neither did I. A couple of months later another friend was looking at the drive in my home, and asked whether I had an ESDI controller for it. A dig through my swap meet buddies junk pile the following weekend turned one up, and I ended up with a $1500 server hard drive for the cost of the $15 controller.

BTW, I still miss the old Amigas. They were cool before computers were supposed to be cool.

[Xipe Totec]

26. I know I remember busting a dozen of those 50G drives

with cookie crumbs.

















in building 30

















NASA's Johnson Space Center.











It weren't me....

[DS1]

4. or, 127 photos in raw mode at 6 megapixels

also known as, DS1 needs a bigger CF card

[texas1928]

6. Yeah I have on my home pc over 2 gigs worth of photos.

Still can not beleive I have all those.

[redqueen]

7. If we make it another 20 years without some crisis screwing things up...

wow... just imagine...

[texas1928]

8. You will have storage centers that hold 100 Gigs

implanted in your fingernail.

[redqueen]

9. See, why'd you have to go and make it all big brothery?

I don't want chips in my fingernails!

:scared:

[texas1928]

10. Well that is not the worst of it.

They will implant a chip that can track each person. Be like having a leash up your ass.

[Deja Q]

11. So they want to know where I go eat out, buy books, and so on?

Piffle. Their sensor won't move a budge; I do everything from home and my future career will hopefully be home-based. :crazy:

[texas1928]

12. They will know what you did in the toilet.

And call you to say, flush it.

[redqueen]

21. As long as they don't watch me in the shower...

or in bed.

Well... still... I don't like it!

[texas1928]

23. They see you when you're sleeping...

They know when you're awake...


They know if you've been bad or good...


:hide: See they are peeking over the fence at you. :hide:




They will call after you get out of the shower and say, you missed your ears.

[Xithras]

29. Only 100 Gigs?

Hitachi will sell you a 3 1/2 inch drive right now that holds a terabyte (1000 gigabytes) for $400. In twenty more years my FSD (Fingernail Storage Device) had better hold at least a petabyte.

[baldguy]

15. In my freshman year of college the Prime mini at school had a head crash.

It was one of the most aweful sounds I'd ever heard.

[texas1928]

16. Did the air bag deploy?

[baldguy]

17. No, but seat belts might have been a good idea.

[texas1928]

18. But I like unrestricted browsing.

:pout:

[baldguy]

19. This was 1982 - "browsing" haden't been invented yet.

[texas1928]

20. Oh...

Punch carding?

[baldguy]

22. Ah, those were the days!

[Roon]

37. When my Father went to work with Lockheed Martin

they used punch cards. My Father got his experience in the air force and they used punch cards too. I don't know exactly how long my Father was with Martin,but he retired early. He uses a mac these days, that is why I don't doubt that a mac is better than a PC. I have been using PC for 12 years, I can't bear to make the switch. Can't afford it either...

[Crabby Appleton]

24. That's the compact model

http://gizmodo.com/archives/would-that-be-internal-or-external-technically-018574.php

[ironflange]

28. I think it was 1999, I splurged on a 7 GB HD

People thought I was nuts. "Why do you need something that size?!?" Stupid thing is, I went and partitioned it into six drives. That was dumb.

[Xithras]

30. Did you have a choice in 1999?

I seem to recall that Windows 9X on the FAT16 filesystem could only address 2GB per partition. FAT32 could address 4GB in Windows98, but problems with early FAT32 conversions, and the fact that FAT16 remained the default setting in both MS and third party installers, Kept FAT16 as the dominant disk format until XP was released (which offered either FAT32 or NTFS as an option depending on the detected disk size).

It was dumb that hard drives had to be partitioned like that, but there were valid reasons for doing it.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

31. It is actually a 2.52 GB Drive

Info:

The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device was introduced in June 1980. It used new film head technology and had a capacity of 2.52 gigabytes with a data transfer rate of 3 megabytes per second. Average access time was 16 ms. Purchase price at time of introduction ranged from$81,000 to $142,200. Due to problems encountered, the first units did not ship until October, 1981.<3>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_IBM_disk_storage

In any case, it is a monster and note the price above!

[AllegroRondo]

32. 20 years ago, I bough a Mac

I had a choice between a 2 MB and a 4 MB hard drive.

I took the 2 MB. I remember thinking "theres no way I'll ever fill a 4 meg!"

[JVS]

33. How big was a document file back then?

[AllegroRondo]

34. Not big at all.

I could fit MS Word, a spell checking program, a couple dozen fonts, and a couple dozen documents on ONE 3.5 inch floppy disk.

Programmers have gotten lazy with all the extra space.

[cobalt1999]

40. Programmers have gotten lazy.

Functionality has increased linearly while size and resources required have increase exponentially.

[Omphaloskepsis]

36. I had the 128k Macintosh back in the day..

I was 7 years old at the time. It didn't have a hard drive. The OS and applications and files had to fit on that floppy. Now I have 600 gigs of porn on my external Firewire drive.

[DarkTirade]

35. I didn't even know they HAD a gb 20 years ago... :)

[Roon]

38. This reminds me of this old ad.

[Hugin]

39. Cool Pic, texas1928!

It goes even further than that... Most of the little guy is a plastic case
designed to be large enough to be manipulated by a user... AND! AND! The small
device is complete with it's I/O interface and the large unit on the left is only
the storage. It does not include it's I/O infrastructure.

[trof]

41. Just downloaded a map/gps program.

"Requires 2 GB memory"
Sure, no problem.

[Burma Jones]

42. And Leon's getting Larger