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One gigabyte then and now [message #55628] Mon, 24 September 2007 20:21 Go to next message
colinhester is currently offline  colinhester
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Amazing what's been done in 20 years. Now, where did I put those dilithium crystals....C



Re: One gigabyte then and now [message #55629 is a reply to message #55628] Tue, 25 September 2007 09:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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I remember the 5Mb and 10Mb disk packs of the late 70's and early 80's. The 100Mb disk drives were as big as a washing machine.


Re: One gigabyte then and now [message #55631 is a reply to message #55628] Fri, 28 September 2007 11:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mr Vinyl is currently offline  Mr Vinyl
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I have an old lap top that my father gave me. It doesn't have a hard drive at all in it. It only reads off of floppy disks. That's it no storage at all. Amazing the speed at which things progress.

Re: One gigabyte then and now [message #55657 is a reply to message #55629] Thu, 21 February 2008 03:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I just ordered a one Terabyte drive they say is the size of a paperback book.

Re: One gigabyte then and now [message #63833 is a reply to message #55657] Wed, 11 August 2010 09:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Songs4Life is currently offline  Songs4Life
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My very first pc used a cassette tape drive as a storage device. It was powered by a 6502 microprocessor and had 8 Kb ram upgradeable to a massive 16 Kb *gasp.
Re: One gigabyte then and now [message #63834 is a reply to message #63833] Wed, 11 August 2010 09:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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I had an 1802 with 256 bytes RAM, and a 6502 with 4kB RAM. It had 8K basic, like the Apple II. Those were the days!

Re: One gigabyte then and now [message #63836 is a reply to message #63834] Wed, 11 August 2010 09:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Songs4Life is currently offline  Songs4Life
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Then you must be able to remember how the word processor was burned into eeprom. And the 8-inch floppy disk can do double duty as a hand-fan.
Re: One gigabyte then and now [message #63838 is a reply to message #63836] Wed, 11 August 2010 10:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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The little 1802 computer was a homebrew that I assembled on a perf board with point-to-point wiring. Looks like spaghetti on the underside, just a bunch of red wires. I still have it, and the 6502 system too (Synertek Sym-I, much like the Kim-I, precursor to the Apple I and II), and both computers still work. Sometimes I get them out and turn them on, just for old times sake.

Re: One gigabyte then and now [message #63839 is a reply to message #63838] Wed, 11 August 2010 10:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Songs4Life is currently offline  Songs4Life
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I wish I could have saved mine but I moved house too often and many things got lost or broken in transit. I can still remember the peep peep peep sound of the data being loaded into the pc from the cassette drive. That's a type of digital sound alright.
Re: One gigabyte then and now [message #63978 is a reply to message #55628] Thu, 02 September 2010 12:59 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
addictedtosound is currently offline  addictedtosound
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I had a really old Amstrad computer, all of my data was saved on to a cassette tape. I used quite a few tapes writing a story, wish I'd kept the tapes now.
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