How big was your first hard disk?

around 500mb, in an 486.

aaa i remember that pc, with its turbo button
did that turbo button do anything? or did it just increase numbers on the box?

heh.
 
Big.Wayne said:
they were attempting to store data on Leaves from a tree or something similar! :)
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urghh... imagine the smell that the pc would make on a hot summers day.

but then again, they were talking quite recently of making bio-degradable cd/dvd rom's and giving them away for free as promotional offers in an attempt to thwart software piracy since the dvd's would degrade after several months of life. I don't know why it did'nt take off but i think that the general public objected to having to buy all of their dvd collection again after several months of use due to the dvd bio-degrading on them.

am i the only one here who never used an amiga? i had a sinclair 128K, rubber keyboard, ZX spectrum, proper good in the day and even better considering it was a christmas present and it also emulated the sounds of a 56K fax modem wonderfully.
 
mythrandyr said:
but then again, they were talking quite recently of making bio-degradable cd/dvd rom's and giving them away for free as promotional offers in an attempt to thwart software piracy since the dvd's would degrade after several months of life. I don't know why it did'nt take off but i think that the general public objected to having to buy all of their dvd collection again after several months of use due to the dvd bio-degrading on them.
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Heh that would be a fail if ever there was one, everyone would be forced to rip them onto their PCs just to keep the software/films. And that would mainstream CD/DVD emulation/ripping software. And then people would start wondering why they should bother buying the software when they could download it from someone else's computer who had to rip it to hard disk to keep it, and because of better-known cheap emulation etc even non-computer-literate users would know how to make it work.
 
miniyazz said:
Heh that would be a fail if ever there was one.
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yeah but that is why the software companies would use DRM like apple do now with their IPOD's. I'm completely opposed to any and all form's of DRM which is also why i would only buy apple mp3 players/phones etc.. as a complete last resort.
 
2GB Quantum Fireball. Thought I might still have it, but, alas, it went to silicone heaven many moons ago :D
 
mythrandyr said:
yeah but that is why the software companies would use DRM like apple do now with their IPOD's. I'm completely opposed to any and all form's of DRM which is also why i would only buy apple mp3 players/phones etc.. as a complete last resort.
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And yet you only get DRM if you buy from iTunes (Edit: obviously some other places too, just a generalisation, before someone says something). You get a CD, you can rip the songs onto your PC in mp3 (DRM-free) and put them on your iPod no problem. And there will always be ways to get round DRM.. hell, if you have music tracks that are DRM for example, you can play them back on your computer and record the output with a line-out to line-in cable (sometimes you don't even need that, depending on your soundcard) and record the output using something like Audacity. It's time-consuming, but it gets rid of DRM without quality loss, and there's gotta be automated programs for that out there.
 
250gb western digital caviar sata drive, its still in my current rig (im new to pc's) only replaced it recently with a samsung f1 320gb, wd is my storage drive now.
 
6.4GB IBM Deathstar.. It was one of the most expensive and speedy HDD's at the time. I only recently lobbed it actually. I think it died after a few years, I replaced it with a 60GB Deathstar which died after a month, and I got it RMA'd, the replacement Deathstar lasted about 2 years and then started its clicking death. I've never had a IBM drive since.

I've only ever bought Seagate since then and 5 drives later and about 10 years on, I haven't had one fail on me yet.
 
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