Post by: Bogie on February 12, 2007, 08:33:30 PM
I remember my first hard drive. The size of a shoe box, and worth its weight in, well... Something heavy and expensive...
And a whopping 15 megabytes.
Post by: esheato on February 12, 2007, 11:22:06 PM
I was the coolest kid on my block.
Ed
Post by: Cromlech on February 12, 2007, 11:29:24 PM
Post by: mfree on February 12, 2007, 11:53:40 PM
It came with 384k ram, the rest was a pricey upgrade.
An internal CLOCK was an upgrade (SmartWatch)
the 10M miniature hard drive was so new that someone had to invent a mount that went on an ISA card to use.
The hard drive was 8 bit IDE, as opposed to "normal" 16 bit.
Deskmate 3.0 kicked booty though, and the 16 color graphics made games much better looking than 4 color CGA.
Post by: robear on February 13, 2007, 01:44:54 AM
First PC was a Kaypro 4. http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=549
Zilog Z80 chip, running at a screaming 2.5Mhz. 64K of RAM. 2 double sided, double density 400K 5.25 floppies. 9" green monochrome screen, text only. It was considered "portable" at the time, but could better be described as "luggable". (33 lbs!!) OS was CP/M - similar to DOS. I connected to compuserve via my external Hayes 300baud modem; you could actually read faster than the characters appeared on screen. Printer was a Telex TTX1014 daisy-wheel; it printed slower than the modem!
Kaypro also made the Kaypro 10, which also included a 10meg hard drive, but it was too rich for my blood at the time.
-R
Post by: ilbob on February 13, 2007, 02:06:33 AM
Also a Vic20, Commodore64, and a TimexSinclair.
feh..
First PC was a Kaypro 4. http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=549
Zilog Z80 chip, running at a screaming 2.5Mhz. 64K of RAM. 2 double sided, double density 400K 5.25 floppies. 9" green monochrome screen, text only. It was considered "portable" at the time, but could better be described as "luggable". (33 lbs!!) OS was CP/M - similar to DOS. I connected to compuserve via my external Hayes 300baud modem; you could actually read faster than the characters appeared on screen. Printer was a Telex TTX1014 daisy-wheel; it printed slower than the modem!
Kaypro also made the Kaypro 10, which also included a 10meg hard drive, but it was too rich for my blood at the time.
-R
First PC was a Kaypro 4. http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=549
Zilog Z80 chip, running at a screaming 2.5Mhz. 64K of RAM. 2 double sided, double density 400K 5.25 floppies. 9" green monochrome screen, text only. It was considered "portable" at the time, but could better be described as "luggable". (33 lbs!!) OS was CP/M - similar to DOS. I connected to compuserve via my external Hayes 300baud modem; you could actually read faster than the characters appeared on screen. Printer was a Telex TTX1014 daisy-wheel; it printed slower than the modem!
Kaypro also made the Kaypro 10, which also included a 10meg hard drive, but it was too rich for my blood at the time.
-R
Post by: Fly320s on February 13, 2007, 02:41:52 AM
Bogie, do you have a terabyte of storage, or is this standard on some new machine?
Post by: Perd Hapley on February 13, 2007, 03:06:54 AM
Post by: Mabs2 on February 13, 2007, 04:07:09 AM
And at LEAST half of it is anime. :3
Post by: MechAg94 on February 13, 2007, 04:14:45 AM
Post by: MechAg94 on February 13, 2007, 04:16:40 AM
Post by: mtnbkr on February 13, 2007, 05:24:52 AM
I now have more memory than the hard drive of the first computer I ever bought.
I passed that benchmark in the mid 90s. I have an 80gig drive that isn't even close to full. Frankly, I'd rather have a smaller capacity (100gig or less), yet higher quality and less expensive drive than a multi-hundred gigabyte drive for $100+ that's going to fail in a year or two.
Chris
Post by: zahc on February 13, 2007, 06:20:37 AM
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on February 13, 2007, 07:09:43 AM
My current network is a Macbook Core 2 Duo @ 2.0 GHz, a PowerMac G3 @ 300MHz, and a Sun Ultra 10.
Post by: Brad Johnson on February 13, 2007, 08:01:13 AM
Brad
Post by: mtnbkr on February 13, 2007, 08:15:18 AM
The monitor was a 16 color Tandy job (which delivered as good if not better games graphics than my friend's SVGA monitor), the printer was a noisy 9pin dot matrix (I think it had a red and black ribbon). My suitemates in college loved it when I'd print a research paper early in the morning. I played the original Civilization for hours on that machine. Of course, it was so slow that it took nearly an hour to create a new world each time you started a new game.I ran DOS 5.0 on it till I replaced it with a Pentium 75 running Win3.11 and later OS/2, and then even later, Win95.
Chris
Post by: Brad Johnson on February 13, 2007, 08:26:27 AM
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I played the original Civilization for hours on that machine.
Leisure Suit Larry forever!
Brad
Post by: BakerMikeRomeo on February 13, 2007, 08:55:49 AM
~GnSx
Post by: Perd Hapley on February 13, 2007, 09:21:08 AM
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on February 13, 2007, 09:26:20 AM
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-microhist.html?ca=dgr-mw08MicroHistory
Post by: Bogie on February 13, 2007, 10:32:48 AM
I didn't go 'dos until about 1987... That machine was a turbo 8088 with the aforementioned 15 megger. I never thought I'd need any more...
The terabyte is spread around my home network, and is gonna get bigger here in a week or so, because I'm going to try to shoehorn in a sacrificial box to play with this MCSE crap on - it'll become a linux box after I'm through.
A lot of the storage is used by .wav files.
Post by: Manedwolf on February 13, 2007, 10:44:00 AM
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I played the original Civilization for hours on that machine.
Leisure Suit Larry forever!
Brad
I'm disillusioned. I remembered the Space Quest games as being so much fun. But now they just came out with a Collection of them I picked up.
Now I find that the pacing is maddeningly slow, the humor is lame at best, painful at worst, and the games are abysmally short with puzzles that are clumsy and impossible unless you find the right pixel or get the parser phrase perfect. Now that it's all these years later, I'm not a little kid, and I've been spoiled by fast-paced, deeper games, everything from Splinter Cell to Twilight Princess. The old Sierras seem primitive and painfully SLOW in comparison. And the narrator could make you homicidal.
Amazing how memories seem better than the reality...
Post by: Ben on February 13, 2007, 02:20:19 PM
First hard drive was a 4meg jury-rigged into an old IBM desktop case that then plugged into the back of my Atari ST. The hard drive enclosure was twice the size of the computer.
Post by: Sindawe on February 13, 2007, 02:40:54 PM
First one I actually owned was a hand-me-down PCjr that had been upgraded with side cars for extra RAM and a parallel printer port. Even had Lotus 123 on a ROM cartridge. Got it from my then FIL when he went to a '286. Spent many hours playing King's Quest I and Mean 18. We were a bit freaked about what the inlaws would say when they learned we'd spent $200 for a 1200 baud modem for the thing, since the ex and I were still struggling immediately post college.
Now, my home looks like a 'white-trash geek's house'. PC carcasses most rooms, old drives litter the stairs, ethernet cable everywhere. I think I passed the terabyte mile post in active storage space sometime around 1998.
Post by: RevDisk on February 13, 2007, 04:15:41 PM
And life is getting strangerer and strangerer...
I remember my first hard drive. The size of a shoe box, and worth its weight in, well... Something heavy and expensive...
And a whopping 15 megabytes.
I remember my first hard drive. The size of a shoe box, and worth its weight in, well... Something heavy and expensive...
And a whopping 15 megabytes.
Back at my old job at DISA, amoung other things, we supported the military's IT needs. Our storage capacity was classified, obviously, but here's a hint. We measured our capacity in 100 TB containers. And we had lots of 'em.
Of course, our storage capacity was a joke compared to the NSA. 'em folks buy disk space by the warehouse.
Post by: AJ Dual on February 13, 2007, 04:21:29 PM
(Get it? Sider/Cider)
Anyway, it was 10mb, and the head seeks sounded kind of like a cross between a clucking chicken and someone shaking a toolbox...
Post by: Matthew Carberry on February 13, 2007, 04:30:22 PM
Oh yeah, NLQ dot matrix printer, for the holed edge paper.
Any collector value in that stuff?
Post by: JimMarch on February 13, 2007, 04:47:48 PM