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- TheHomelessBoy, on 06/19/2009, -1/+579total space = 4mb. WOO
- shakabrah, on 06/19/2009, -5/+373that's an oompa loompa, right? white jumpsuit, orange skin....and oh, that's just a regular sized drive, the oompa loompa's just tiny.
- 1o23r, on 06/19/2009, -3/+317Thanks for letting me crash at your place for the weekend. Oh, by the way, I brought my external hard drive.
- doublefelix, on 06/19/2009, -1/+291Glad to see it's portable.
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -0/+205Think of all the plain text you could have on that thing!
- jessebs, on 06/19/2009, -0/+181It's quite obvious it's the future with their cool white jumpsuits.
- blackninja543, on 06/19/2009, -4/+174That ones for my porn collection.
- Zippo, on 06/19/2009, -0/+154If anyone's wondering, this photo was taken in 1975... and drive contained 500K
Same pic, less yellowed.
http://www.extracaffeine.com/misc/500k_in_1975.jpg - roostersheep, on 06/19/2009, -1/+115Just to think, one day we'll be posing and laughing about this picture:
http://z.hubpages.com/u/387322_f260.jpg
"Total space, 140GB! WOO!"
I guarantee we'll be joking about how the media storage had to rotate like a vinyl. - mandoman, on 06/19/2009, -1/+111I guess that's what they mean by "mounting a hard drive".
- iamtrist, on 06/19/2009, -8/+115640K of memory should be enough for anybody
- appleofdischord, on 06/19/2009, -1/+86(. Y .)
- goober555, on 06/19/2009, -2/+79Does that guy have a boner touching that stuff? Or am I seeing things?
- Evi1d33d, on 06/19/2009, -0/+75Think of all the ASCII porn you can fit in that thing!
- youngcheesey, on 06/29/2009, -1/+73I knew I wasn't the only ***** who noticed that. Thank god.
- Bennzor, on 06/19/2009, -1/+69literally the master drive
- Sabin, on 06/19/2009, -0/+57Nothing quite like a hard drive where you could print its entire contents in plain text and actually save space.
- mcsurvey, on 06/19/2009, -1/+51Maxtor are totally laughable.
- freedomischaos, on 06/19/2009, -0/+48looks pretty solid to me.
- kimballj, on 06/19/2009, -0/+474MB that's about 4 Kazza quality MP3s. So by RIAA standards that thing could cost up to $320,000.
- SpeedStix, on 06/19/2009, -1/+47ohh technology. How have you evolved.
- TommyGunn32, on 06/19/2009, -0/+39I dunno, i wasn't looking at his crotch..
- Nighthawke, on 06/19/2009, -0/+34Update: Daniel Klein sez, "The picture is of a fixed-head disk, very similar to a Borroughs unit I had the pleasure of disassembling (in 1975) after a catastrophic head crash (I got authorization from Gordon Bell himself to do it). It took me 3 days to whittle it down to nuts and bolts, and the platter weighed 18 pounds. The hub upon which the platter was mounted was phosphor bronze, and weighed an additional 17 pounds. So imagine the inertia of 35 pounds spinning at 3600 RPM. It had electric brakes, because if you just switched off the power, it would spin for a loooong time. There is an (apocryphal) story of movers just hitting the circuit breaker (not the off switch that engaged the brakes), and after waiting the requisite 5 minutes for spindown, loaded the drive into a truck. All the moves and hallways were right angles, of course. Since brakes had not been engaged, it was still spinning at 2000 RPM or so by the time it was loaded. When the truck turned a corner, the drive precessed right out through the side of the truck. It held a few megabytes at most, if I recall correctly (a similar unit was used as a swap disk on the PDP-10, so it would have held 256K or so). "
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/30/ancient-hardd ... - inactive, on 06/19/2009, -0/+33Reminds me of the 10 mb hard drive I had for a Fluke Data Logger back in the mid 80's. Damn thing was 2'x2', must have weighed 25 lbs. I think it cost us about $5000.
***** thing was reliable as all hell though, survived for 20 years, whirring away collecting data. - deadapostle, on 06/19/2009, -0/+32He's actually manually installing the ones and zeros to the hard drive.
- ChocChunkOaties, on 06/19/2009, -1/+32It's Mike TV! and he's all grown up.
- ccaazz, on 06/19/2009, -1/+32what year was this taken in?
- ChocChunkOaties, on 06/19/2009, -2/+31Hey look it's Mike TV!
- roostersheep, on 06/19/2009, -1/+29It's only 1TB, remember only a few years back when you were boasting about your 256mb of RAM?
- walgman, on 06/19/2009, -1/+29I would like to see the solid state version.
- bossm4n, on 06/19/2009, -0/+27Wonka's getting into the hard drive business now?
- kazersoza, on 06/19/2009, -1/+27Can hold lots of ASCII porn.
- mohrt, on 06/19/2009, -0/+23We don't care what you do on your own time.
- eviljolly, on 06/20/2009, -0/+23*forklift beeping sound coming from the distance*
- Partof300, on 06/19/2009, -1/+23I have two of these running using raid 0.
LAN parties are always at my house. - jbarket, on 06/19/2009, -0/+20That would be why he said Kazza quality, and not decent quality.
- FakeHipster, on 06/19/2009, -1/+21The new iPhone! With 6 teraflops! Sequence the entire human genome on the subway to work! Doubles as a nav computer! Play "Crack that NSA encryption from 2009"!
- augment, on 06/19/2009, -0/+20Thanks I was waiting for someone to post a source.
- DrDabbles, on 06/19/2009, -1/+21Late 50's?! I highly doubt it. The hard drive was only even INVENTED in 1956.
Most people here are probably only old enough to know of IDE, SCSI, SATA/SAS. But some of us go back to MFM and RLL drives in personal computers. And a few even go back to punch cards...which were still in heavy use in the 60's and 70's.
This pic is probably mid 60's to early 70's. When hard drives were the size of washing machines. - juhache, on 06/19/2009, -0/+19Wang Minicomputer.
lol - Spire3660, on 06/19/2009, -2/+20On Slashdot, responses I would have gotten would be the year this was built, the model number, the formula figuring out the density per sq inch and maybe some old crusty guy who actually used to work on these things.
On Digg I get willy jokes....... - Roedran, on 06/19/2009, -1/+19Yea he had a very large beach towel and T-shirt given to him by a sales rep -- both read, "My Wang Works Wonders." 100% true -- and I'm the oldest of 5 kids, so... there you go. Truth in advertising.
- Schmich, on 06/19/2009, -0/+18Actually 500KB but still enough to save all those .torrent files like the submitter pointed out!
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -2/+19We already are
http://eimages.ecost.com/prod/5294000/5294239z.jpg
Terabytes - Zippo, on 06/19/2009, -0/+17Well, I really can't guarantee the file size is accurate. I found that photo a few years back and that was the filename and description of the photo.
*does a quick Google*
Gizmodo wrote an article on the same photo back in 2004:
http://gizmodo.com/archives/would-that-be-internal ...
FTA: "It held a few megabytes at most, if I recall correctly (a similar unit was used as a swap disk on the PDP-10, so it would have held 256K or so). I can get exact numbers from co-workers, if you care."
So, the year checks out, but the size is still up for debate. - smartalien99, on 06/19/2009, -0/+15how the hell do you a thousandth of a bit?
- Homerr, on 06/19/2009, -0/+15I think it's gasoline powered.
- eanbowman, on 06/19/2009, -1/+15Ouch man. Diggs for your awful punnery. Diggs I say!
- 7aji, on 06/20/2009, -0/+13It's cool, just park it outside next to my car.
- Spire3660, on 06/19/2009, -1/+14I wonder how big the physical bits are.
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