A small step back in time...

[Aηdy]

I just found an old hard drive in my cupboard... it just shows how quickly things have advanced...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a102/muckingfuppet/28f1e843.jpgLook at the capacity! :D

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a102/muckingfuppet/12794919.jpgThe date of manufacture.

Like we can get 1TB hard drives now, and the latest technology can give us literally millions of GBs! It's all happened so fast lol!

[Glasgow]

I dont think anyone cares :) I still love you though Andy

[Aηdy]

Go play your GH little boy! :P

[Blahages]

I have a Seagate 20MB HDD Laying around in an old Commodore Machine I have (Not a Commodore 64). It's huge, dimension-wise. I'll post a picture of it later. Sad part is, it doesn't work. It turns on, but the drive just bangs the arm back and forth.

I've also got a PLUS! Brand 40MB HDD as well, in a Tandy SL1000 Machine.

I USED to have a 10MB Slot HDD (Was a Card that went into a Slot on the Motherboard, which I believe was about 20 inches long). I don't have it anymore, though.

I've got a Maxtor 240MB Hdd laying around that still has its original price tag on it. Was marked with a 300$ Price tag back in it's day...

[Whisper]

Ya I miss the good ole days

http://www.cartoon-secrets.com/Photos/Flintstones_wallpaper.jpg

[Malcolm Tucker]

Did you manage to get it in Andy?

[Patchy]

wow....I remember when a one gig hard drive was like hard core stuff...and now a tb is not even hardcore since its easy and cheap to get a terabyte now...whats after tb btw?

[Aηdy]

After a TB is a PB i think (Pettabyte) then it goes up to ZB (zettebyte) i think.

I've also got hundreds of sticks of old ram, mostly about 2mb lol.

I did manage to get that HDD plugged it, it works fine, it's still got windows on it, and as far as I can tell it's windows 3.1 lol.

[Malcolm Tucker]

as far as I can tell it's windows 3.1 lol.

hehe......

[Aηdy]

Ooh, the biggest meaturement is a YB (yottabyte), that comes after ZB.

As of 2007 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007), no computer has achieved one yottabyte of storage. In fact, the combined space of all the computers in the world does not amount to one yottabyte.

[Malcolm Tucker]

Wow, thats cool

[Whisper]

no computer has achieved one yottabyte of storage.
Yet!

[Aηdy]

Yet!

Haha yeah I bet it wont be long.

[Malcolm Tucker]

Yeah, what with all that porn out there.

Sooo, sooooo much porn! :P

[Patchy]

lol quite funny on my old hard drive my sisters bf checked it and the internet history which is like permanently stored and saw loads of porn sites....try explaining that to ur sister.

but coming back on topic thanks for the info on pb....why would u need a pb its a bit too much lol. well maybe the next op system will be like 250 gb's

[Aηdy]

15 years ago, people would think 1GB was crazy, and it was.. an operating system could one day end up as 1TB.

[Patchy]

LOL thats freeky its weird though everything else in the world like phones and stuff seems to be getting smaller, but software seems to be getting bigger its obvious why but I thought they would try reducing the size of it.

[Aηdy]

Why would they wanna reduce the size though? Taht would mean for more compression making things run hella slow!

[Patchy]

yeh but they could try making a system that is a small file but runs fast :P

[Malcolm Tucker]

Huh. I can't understand that either lol

[Patchy]

Yeah sorry actually now that I think about it neither do I me just trying to think outside the box :P

[Malcolm Tucker]

Yeah sorry actually now that I think about it neither do I me just trying to think outside the box :P

hehe, errrrr get back in! :P

[Blahages]

15 years ago, people would think 1GB was crazy, and it was.. an operating system could one day end up as 1TB.

1GB Then... And Now.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2354/2142190953_0985b6e6c9_o.jpg

I can't tell you when exactly "Then" was.

Then, You've got this:

http://hackedgadgets.com/wp-content/_huge_5mb_hard_disk_drive.jpg

That's a 5MB "Hard Drive" from 1956. It weighed over a ton.

[Patchy]

lol and if it wasnt thanks to mr whoever made small gb hard drives I'd have about 1024 of them lying around my bedroom

[Blahages]

lol and if it wasnt thanks to mr whoever made small gb hard drives I'd have about 1024 of them lying around my bedroom

I added a 5MB HDD from 1956 to my post, I think right after you replied. :)

I wouldn't want to think about how big my 500GB Drive I have in my Desktop computer would theoretically have to be if It existed by some fathom of the imagination in 1956.

...However big dimension-wise that 5MB HDD is, multiply those by 102,400 (Because if you divide 500GB by 5MB, that's what you get). Also, Multiply the 1 Ton by 102,400, or 102,400 Tons...

Theoretically, of course.


http://hackedgadgets.com/2007/04/13/hard-drives-old-and-new/

[Patchy]

crazy..and I thought old hard drives could be used as drinks coasters obv not :P