How big was your first hard disk?

i had an atari/spectrum and amiga

but if we're classing this as the start of windows desktop computing then i started with a monster..

3.9GB \o/
 
10GB at the end of 1997 When ever the P3 450MHz came out. My second drive was 80GB and I remember saying I will never fill that... :o
 
I had a huge 30 meg Western digital "file card", plugged into the back of an Amstrad PC1512. I believe that was near the end of 1987.
 
10 mb I think, was in an IBM 80286 I think. Prior to that I had an 8086 with the basic OS in ROM and floppies to load and run the programs.

Most expensive HD was a Western Digital 3.1Gb, I bought it in 96 or very early 97 for a stunning £380. Worked a treat in my 486 DX2 80. I still have it by the way and the last time I tried it, it still worked.

I am still a keen WD fan to this day and won't buy any other brand now.

EDIT: Can't find the receipt, but it was definately more than £280, technology nowadays is amazingly cheap.
 
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Remember when my dad brought a laptop home with a 20MB hard drive, along with 1MB of RAM and a 12Mhz CPU.

First machine I had had a 40MB HD. At first I thought it was enormous.
 
Had an old Vanilla pc with an Intel SX cpu, can't remember the speed but the HD space was about (I think) 30 - 80 mb.

Then I had a Gateway 2000 with 250mb ~ and then upward from there.
 
NON... unless you count external cassette drive :D

wow the ZX81 was so uber..
although the 1k of ram was upgradable to 64k with a very crap plugin module
i remember spending hours typing in a program that just created a ball boucing across the screen
then just when you got to the last line of code a small sneeze would crash it :mad:
 
timciren said:
zx spectrum complete with 360k microdrive ***
kids today dont know theyre well off
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Microdrive doesnt really count, it was just a tapeloop. Pretty quick, but not as fast as a real 5.25inch floppy, a lot cheaper though.

By the way, the Spectrum's microdrive was 85k, and the QL's was 100k, neither could store 360k, with a read time of 15k per second.

I guess some people had some pretty small disks, my 30meg was in an 8mhz 8086 PC. By the time I upgraded to 386DX (25mhz!) I already has 120meg or so! :) It was a fujitsu and rather expensive.
 
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120mb Conner drive (:D) in my 486dx2/66.

Couldn't believe my eyes when I switched it to a 3.2gb Quantum Fireball! Such a huge performance increase :cool:
 
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