How big was your first hard disk?

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Hey all,

I wondered if any of you remembered the size of your first hard disk?

I think mine was 20MB and came pre-installed in a x386 Compaq jobby.

When my Guru friend offered to help me build a proper Pentium class PC I think I splurged on an 800MB Western-Digital (used) which cost about £70 I think! :p
 
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52MB quantum fireball iirc.. Im an Amiga 1500 :o The whole Amiga setup cost about 2 grand I think :eek:
 
think my very first hdd was 640mb ish which had to be compressed and ran windows 95 just as crappily as this machine that i am using now runs vista ultimate. Came with a 486DX4100 base unit which was the mutts nutts in its day. Anybody remember windows millenium? my god that was the worst os ever, fell flat on its arse overnight.
 
You guys are showing your age! 60gb on my laptop for me, with a 400GB external :D
Earliest I recall, my Dad had two 1.8GB drives in a PC running Win95. We had an Acorn knocking around before then, but I was a bit young to be worrying about HDD sizes..
What confuses me is he still uses that PC from time to time. Apparently he likes it because practically no viruses work on it any more.. although it's good for ye olde DOS games that no longer run (on Vista/7).

Edit: Just noticed Win95 was nearly 15 years ago.. God I feel old, lol.
 
miniyazz said:
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i don't mind one bit tbh, it was for me atleast, the golden age of household desktop computing. It's an era of computing that very few of the new aged entrants will ever see or have heard stories about, where as i lived through it and am proud to have been able to see computers grow from what they were into what they are today. I think that people who have seen technological changes also grow a certain respect for what they have that people who have just started their own builds don't have. Nowadays anyone can buy a performance PC as their first build straight out of the box, but back in the day when the tech was still so simple and easy to understand, you kind of felt privellaged to be one of the few to own a 586 or an early pentium processor cnsidering how much they cost and how they performed then in relation to nowadays.
 
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mythrandyr said:
i don't mind one bit tbh, it was for me atleast, the golden age of household desktop computing. It's an era of computing that very few of the new aged entrants will ever see or have heard stories about, where as i lived through it and am proud to have been able to see computers grow into what they are today.
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Indeed, but I shall live through this and will be able to see computers grow into what they will be 20 years from now, while you shall join the ranks of the silver surfers! :p

Actually no, Skynet will have taken over long before then. Sucks. :eek:
 
80MB in a RISC 3010, it didn't even have a HDD for 2 years!

First one I bought myself was 120GB and it's still going strong (cost me £130 too!)
 
3gb or 3.3gb I think in an old IBM machine.

I had a VGA something pc as well, with windows 3.1 I think it was. But I was about 8 using that, so...
 
i would'nt say un-exciting. It's more competative and to an extent confusing now than it used to be, certainly a lot more colorful. Before overclocking systems became the in thing, back then a 486 was a 486 no matter what anyone could say or do, EDO memory was still only EDO memory and hard drives, well, hard drives were hard drives they were just there to store things like the OS on, none of this SSD that and 175/100MB read/write etc... like we have now.
 
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i would'nt say un-exciting. It's more competative and to an extent confusing now than it used to be, certainly a lot more colorful. Before overclocking systems became the in thing, back then a 486 was a 486 no matter what anyone could say or do, EDO memory was still only EDO memory and hard drives, well, hard drives were hard drives they were just there to store things like the OS on, none of this SSD that and 175/100MB read/write etc... like we have now.
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I can't find the article, but I read somewhere a few months ago something about a revolutionary new type of storage device they were working on back in the 70s or 80s. It was organic storage somehow, and they were using lasers to read and write from it. About the size of a small room, of course, but they reckoned it could store up to a gb of data. I can't remember why they never made anything of it, but anyway, allsorts of newfangled hard drives have been around for a while!
 
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