I'll never fill up this 850mb hard drive!

[Faustus]

"I'll never fill up this 850mb hard drive, can you imagine the ammount of sofware and files it would take the fill this thing!"
Those have got to be the most stupid words I've ever said. I realized how stupid today when I gave in an ordered a WD 200gb 8mb cache drive to go with my 2 80gb IBM Deskstars. Its ok though, cause "I'll never fill up 360gb of hard drive!" ... maybe I need help.

[Will Hay]

"I'll never fill up this 850mb hard drive, can you imagine the ammount of sofware and files it would take the fill this thing!"

Am I missing something here?
Are you talking to yourself flaystus, are you sleep-typing or have you been drinking man?
Will

[Faustus]

Not drinking, or sleeping. Just making a comment about how fast things change. I'm actually well known to alot of my friend for making comment or predictions that I later have to look back on as dumb. Examples include:

"IDE will die, we'll all be using SCSI in a few years."
"I hear the AMD 486 120mhz is as fast as the Pentium 75."
and Computers are getting to hot, pretty soon we'll have to take drastic measures to cool them" (Upon installing my P1 233mhz)

[Will Hay]

"IDE will die, we'll all be using SCSI in a few years."
"I hear the AMD 486 120mhz is as fast as the Pentium 75."
and Computers are getting to hot, pretty soon we'll have to take drastic measures to cool them" (Upon installing my P1 233mhz)

I see!!!!!!
W.

[SatStorm]

I remember myself in the 80s, thinking how cool was that microdrives for the best home computer ever: sinclair ZX Spectrum. I had 3 - 4 48K games in one small disk! An amazing storing device of about 128kb data!

I remember said to a friend of mine the same time: "Just imagine those 5 1/4 Floppies from those proffecional PCs! How many games you could store there...."
"Yeah" he replied me, "but did you see how they cost? The interface for spectrum cost 120.000drm (360$) and the drive about 150.000drm (470$)"
At the time, the local salary was about 110.000drm per month (330$)

So, I remember keep loading games from cass tapes untill 1990, when the prices drop for good. Then I could buy a second hand Amiga and finally have a "real" computer.... It even had a built in driver! Whow!

Now I burn DVDs like eating cookies. And I need about 1 Terra of HD to say that "I have space".

[tgpo]

I can remember our old Tandy computer and our old 8088, That thing was smoking with the math co-processor!! I remember it had the turbo button and everything. I suppose I'm too young to remember any of the 'older' computers that are now classics, but I still remember buying old programs on 5 1/4 floppy disks.

[housepig]

and Computers are getting to hot, pretty soon we'll have to take drastic measures to cool them" (Upon installing my P1 233mhz)

actually, I knew a programmer who was a beta tester for Intel, and he had a couple of the early P1/200 processors catch fire on his board... he'd ship 'em back to them FedEx and they'd ship him another board.

gawd, I remember my first machine - 486/25, 107Mb hard drive, 4Mb RAM. Paid $160 for another 4Mb RAM & $200 for a 240Mb hard drive, and was happy to get them at those prices... (paid $999 for the base system).

4 years later - paid $999 again for a P-166/32/2Gb box.

5 years later - machine I just built for video a few months ago - XP-1800 / 768 / 240Gb... probably cost me around $900 all told

first computer, though... Coleco ADAM with the dual-cassette drives.

[jeex]

i fondly remember my first computer, it was 1994 i think..

intel 486 sx/33 (no math co-processor)
4mb ram
256k onboard video
no sound card
2400bps modem
250mb harddrive
dual floppy drive (5-1/2 & 3-1/4)


i probably spent more on uprades to that computer than i did on it.

i eventually bought
two 16mb ram modules
pentium 80mhz overdrive chip
sound blaster 16 value sound card
14.4kbps modem, then 33.6kbps modem
1gb western digital caviar hard drive
8x cd-rom drive
iomega zip drive

man, i used the hell out of that computer.. i'd probably still be chepo depot'ing it out had i not lost it in a fire..

[SLK001]

I remember shelling out $479US for a 40 MByte hard drive and thinking, "Man, what a deal!" If I'd have had an extra $280US ($769US), I could have "super-sized" it and got that 70 MByte drive.

Now, I complain about having to spend $100US for a 100 GByte drive. Yep, times change...

[indolikaa]

The Apple IIc, 1986. I filled up hundreds of 5¼" discs with that baby! And all those nights of playing Montezuma's Revenge...

[flaninacupboard]

yep, i remember being astounded when getting an Amstrad. TWO floppy drives, -16- colours on screen, 19.8 megabytes of hard drive, 13mhz of RAW POWER!
running DOS 3.2, with a bubble jet printer. this was to replace the -old- amstrad, with only one floppy drive, CGA (4 colours!) monitor and no hard drive, complete with dot matrix printer. those were the days eh?

my first ever machine was the acorn electron, with clunky keys and crappy tapes.

i myself remember getting a 200meg drive and thinking "wow!" and again when i got my 4.3 gig drive for £90 thinking "thats more than five cd's!!!"

Edit: just realised i quoted the speed of my amstrad wrong! the actual speed was 1.3mhz, not 13!! wow, we -have- come a long way, with 1.3Ghz computers a thing of the past nowadays. roll on a 1.3Thz machine!

[Turtle D]

Oh, man... I remember all that! 4MB RAM for $188, man, it's gonna be awesome..!

Blank CDs in '95 for $13 EACH

New video card, Hercules Dynamite Pro... 800x600 resolution! WHOA!

HDD, I remember it was around $299 for a 2.1GB... I had sooo much space...!

Check back in 5 years to see where we will all be at... Pentium 16 2.53THz (TerraHerz) 256TB RAM, 57" HDTV/monitor, CableDSL running at OC48 speeds, Windows Super TerraServerXP 2008, DVDs that read 1TB perside per layer... you get the point

-Dennis

[KetchSumAir]

Check back in 5 years to see where we will all be at... Pentium 16 2.53THz (TerraHerz) 256TB RAM, 57" HDTV/monitor, CableDSL running at OC48 speeds, Windows Super TerraServerXP 2008, DVDs that read 1TB perside per layer... you get the point

Yeah - and in two years from that, that computer will be junk, 'cause the new ones will run on a solar cell that calculators use today, and will fit on your keychain

But, I TRULLY hope it is Linux 50.3 or something, not any MS products :P

[housepig]

But, I TRULLY hope it is Linux 50.3 or something, not any MS products

sorry, by that time, this will be your only choice....

[fmctm1sw]

I know I've mentioned this before but I like collecting old machines. I got:

Atari 400

Atari 800 w/ programming books + casette tape recoder to record you programs + 5-1/4" disk drive (720k?)

TRS-80 w/ printer

Commodore VIC 20 w/ VICmodem

And for all you guys that got suckered into buying a VGA montor.... huh, I can use my TV set with those! 8)

[Faustus]

My first machine was about 93 or 94 and it was a:
486 SX 50
8mb of ram
420mb hard drive.
with get this A CDROM DRIVE! (heck yeah!)

Funny part was I could have gotten a DX6 or SX50 for the same price, but the DX had half the RAM. There was a game I saw at best buy that I just HAD to play and it needed 8mb of ram so the choice was made. Of course since it was a SX it ran doom and other newer games like crap, and of course I never actually bought and played the game that I just HAD to have 8mb of ram for. OH yeah and it was *hangs his head in shame* a PackardBell with no cache memory on the system board. Gawd I hated that box.

Of course I friend of mine that an old TRS80, actually it wasn't the TRS80, it was the laptop version of the same thing but I dont remember its name.

[sterno]

You guys talking about your first computer having a hard drive are making me feel old.... Well, not exactly old, but like I've been at this too long. I remember how amazed I was when I first filled a 140k floppy with my own work. At the time you could still buy 5MB hard drives, and even one that small was a major investment.

Some computers and RAM expansion boards were also still being upgraded by buying individual RAM chips and plugging them in. For that matter, my calculator now has 128k of memory, which is more than a lot of computers had back then.

"I'll never fill up this 850mb hard drive, can you imagine the ammount of sofware and files it would take the fill this thing!"

I and somebody I knew said this about our new 80MB drives. You should have seen us when we were using a newer workstation with a whopping 250MB drive.

[rvl123]

My 1st PC was:

286 8Mhz with turbo (boosted it to 16mhz)
DOS
40MB HD
VGA card
5 1/4 in floppy
I also had a 256 color monitor!
Panasonic Dot-Matrix Printer

I remember when we bought a CD-ROM drive, it came with a video on how to install it. It also had this sound card with a built in IDE slot (whoda thought!).

I think that system cost me $3500 plus the CD-ROM drive.

It's come a long way!

[OneCardShort]

The Apple IIc, 1986. I filled up hundreds of 5¼" discs with that baby! And all those nights of playing Montezuma's Revenge

Same here, first computer apple IIc and spent endless hours on it playing Montezuma's Revenge, but the game I really loved was F-15 Strike Eagle. Loved getting into dog fights with those little stick figure MiG's, sometimes you couldn't tell if he banked right or left until he started turning!

Then the upgrade some years later to a 286. Can't remember if it was a 6 mhz or 8 mhz machine, but it had a TURBO button on it! Spent hours playing F-117 Stealth Fighter on that one, loved that game.

[galactica]

I have 2 250GB Hds and am just about to fill 90% of just the first one!!!


The first computer I ever owned



Apple IIvx
16mhz processor
16mhz fsb
4 megs of ram
came with a 40mb HD (I remember buying a 400mb drive and thinking i was on top of the world!!)



as of Feburary 10 1999 it was worth a whoping $15!!!!!!!!!!

[Craig Tucker]

as of Feburary 10 1999 it was worth a whoping $15!!!!!!!!!!

Not to me

[mrtristan]

Crap. I can't remember the name of the computer, but it was a portable unit. The monitor was built in monochromatic green and it had two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I can't remember the rest of the specs, but it ran DOS and had absolutely no gui.

I think the name started with a "k," but I could be wrong.

Hold on there. It was a Kapro. A quick google search will reveal these astonishing results!

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=549