Old 40MB HDD

HeX · 13 Dec 2010 at 11:08

Does it weigh a ton?

I had an old IBM 135MB drive, it was 3.5", but it was about double the height of a normal HDD, and it weighed an absolute ton, I swear it was like quarter inch thick steel casing on the thing.

Needless to say, if you dropped it on your foot you'd have known about it

SimonC · 13 Dec 2010 at 11:17

VFM Addict said:
To give you some idea of prices I bought two 4.77Mhz XT Clone Samsung Desktop PC's for the office back in 1988. These had 10MB hdrives in and I got a good price for them direct from Samsung because I had done some work for their Marketing Manager when he was at Kyocera. I paid just short of £800 for each for them with basic monochrome (amber) monitors.

You've got to laugh at the speed of pc's from back then, 10mb hdd today is a complete joke. But then in twenty years from now we will no doubt think the same of today's computers.

VFM Addict · 13 Dec 2010 at 11:27

About 18 months later I bought a similar speed 4.77Mhz Toshiba Laptop with a 10mb hdrive in. Again monochrome screen (blue) and that cost almost £1,000 and was pretty damn close to the bottom of their range at the time. It makes me shudder when I think what costs were back then.

HeX · 13 Dec 2010 at 11:38

http://gizmodo.com/5524908/the-hard-disk-youve-been-waiting-for

SimonC · 13 Dec 2010 at 11:47

Bargain that was, I see they done a 5mb hdd, for a quite reasonable price of just $2898.00 lol

Anyway, I see your 10mb hdd and raise you...

1956, 5mb hdd, weighing in about a ton :cool:

SimonC · 13 Dec 2010 at 11:47

double post.

Danger Phoenix · 13 Dec 2010 at 12:34

I also have an old Amstrad laptop with contains no hard drive.

When I say laptop I mean it quite loosely, because it is bigger than a HTPC

barrix · 13 Dec 2010 at 14:31

£5

for it. It will be good collection.

MeatLoaf · 13 Dec 2010 at 14:50

I remember paying a fortune for a 40Mb ( or was it 400Mb ) hard drive for an amiga 1200

haz_pro · 13 Dec 2010 at 16:32

Its crazy to think how far things have come storage wise, that just looks so huge for a measly 8mb of storage haha.

powelly · 13 Dec 2010 at 18:41

good imagine if you could go back in time and offer them a 2tb hard drive they would have offered you like 10000000,000000000000000,000000000000000,0000000000000000 you'd be set

Danny862 · 13 Dec 2010 at 19:26

i have a M2 micro card with 8GB on......
my first computer was Windows 98...then vista...now 7

richb93 · 13 Dec 2010 at 19:32

Crazy to think you can get 32GB MicroSD cards that are the size of a thumbnail.

Danny862 · 13 Dec 2010 at 19:35

if not smaller

Duke · 13 Dec 2010 at 20:46

Danny862 said:
my first computer was Windows 98...then vista...now 7

Windows 95

SimonC · 13 Dec 2010 at 20:49

Duke said:
Windows 95

Snap.

Up until recently I had media/junk to do with windows 95 and 98, bad ass. :rolleyes:

Danny862 · 13 Dec 2010 at 21:05

I am not old enough to have windows 95.

tomos · 14 Dec 2010 at 10:48

my 1st pc was win95 with a 1.7GB drive. 1st amiga, 500+, no hard drive but bought a 100MB one for £300 or so

was a brick that bolted onto the side of the thing!

PhillyDee · 14 Dec 2010 at 10:50

Duke said:
Windows 95

Windows 3.11 (Came on 11 floppies),. . . . .

95, 98, 98SE, ME (Briefly) XP, Vista, 7

Cannot remember the hard drive size at all! Do remember when I got my first 1Gb one!

HeX · 14 Dec 2010 at 15:03

My first PC (not including a C64) was an AST Advantage!

486DX2 50MHz
4MB Mem
1MB Cirrus Logic graphics
270MB HDD
2x CD-ROM

Running Win 3.11 (with some God awful AST branded GUI over the top of it).

Ah the days back when the internet was for a select few and the rest of us had to rely on Encarta