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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+84OLD!!! THIS IS LIKE OVER 20 YEARS OLD.
NO DIGG DUPE INNACURATE LAME! - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+65I like how this is submitted under "Tech Deals"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46For once, a stupid digg joke made me laugh.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34I think it'd be cheaper to hire a bunch of bums off the street to follow you around saying "one" or "zero."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Price per megabyte: $87.46
With a staggering average seek time of 30ms
You'll never find a better deal than that It only costs about $350 to store an mp3. - merugo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18No way.
These computer things are just a fad. - otatop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1530 ms seek time, Jesus.
- 4Prophecy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15*Checks current torrents*
Yeah, I'll take 2,800, please. - MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10terabytes + jigawatts
- Wreef, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I got a 500mb that has windows 95 on it.
....If it still works. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Quick Marty, get the Delorean!!! I've got some hard drives i need to sell in the past.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12At least yours had a hard drive...
no hard drive
no disk drive
1k ram
processor speed 3.5 MHz - vistic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah my first computer (Tandy Color Computer 2) had 64K RAM, a 0.895 MHz 6809, and the only storage I had available was cassette tape.
Compared to now... just recently I bought a Western Digital 500 GB external drive for under $200 including tax and shipping from Dell.
Progress! - DevilDunkard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Who needs Hard Drives? My first computer was a Commodore 64. Rockin the 64K with the cassette drive, and color display. Ahhhhh, those were the days...
- guiscard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I still have a 2mb bank of ram I paid $800 for in '92. I keep it in my car and use it as an ice-scraper in the winters.
- ml7667, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm surprised no one has managed to boast about how big their music collection is yet.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6...and some day you'll likely chuckle at those specs.
- merugo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Sweet! I need it!
Side note: Flock of Seagulls is AWESOME. - DevilDunkard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'll have a 1.21 Gigawatt 20 core AMD.
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6hey, years from now we'll all be using terabyte systems.
- spankaccount, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6What is the date of this ad?
- billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's called reminiscing...most people enjoy it. Other people are jerks.
- brickbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ages ago I read this joke thing comparing a pc running windows to a car.
But, in fact, if cars had developed at the rate of computers, we would all be flying around at over 1 million miles per hour for $0.00030 per mile. Instead we are driving at the same speeds we were 20's. wtf? ok, they are quieter, lighter, and they come in more colors but gdi, that's not good enough.
My first pc was a commodore 64 with a tape drive. Now we have 3 terrabytes at home.
Why doesn't other stuff develop this quickly? I heard that Boeing aircraft designs are basically the same as they were in the 60's? wtf?
/rant - mrlost117, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5ya my dad bought one of these back in the day, this is like from 91 or 92. My uncle still makes fun of him for it to this day.
- ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I didn't see any date on this, but by the listing of Kaypro's, I'd estimate 1981 or thereabouts.
- mthoringen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's a timeline of historical hard drive prices:
http://www.alts.net/ns1625/winchest.html - molochi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He was saying is vera nice. Make with sexy time.
- billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Was that a bolt action hard drive? What caliber?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, they haven't developed at the same rate as PCs, but they have developed in the same sort of way, they've become more efficient, faster, quieter and cheaper. It's really all about squeezing more into a smaller space, and the same thing just doesn't apply to engines. Also, the aircraft designs are the same yes, but you're failing to take into consideration the practicalities of developing a new kind of aircraft engine. If it's been in force since the 60's, it's tried and tested, it's worked so far so there's no reason why it won't carry on working. If you put a new kind of engine on and it fails suddenly, you've killed everyone on that plane. If a new processor buns out or just breaks, sure that's going to be inconvenient for the user, but it's not likely to kill them.
- dextermanas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+310 MB ought to be enough for anybody!
- graemee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A company I worked for bought one of the first 286 IBM systems, with EGA & a 30MB HD, 512K and dual 5 1/4" floppies. The cost was $18,000. That's the 6 Mhz model. So that would be $3000/Mhz or $600/MB.
BTW we used this power house to compile digitizer controller software for mapping, each unit sold for 2.5 times the cost of the PC. So it paid for itself very nicely. - scrumpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If I could take my Hitachi 500GB back in time I could sell it for $43,730,000?
Did I do my math right? I'm fairly certain I could build a time machine for under $20.00, I saw plans on the internet.
Guess I got my weekend planned. - joshjoneswas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3*WAIT!!* Don't buy from that guy. I have a few 500mb drives at home I'll sell for, say, $3,000 each. They work great.
Also, anyone know where I can get a good deal on some ocean front property in Phoenix? thanks. - billybob476, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I had an abacus!
- ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, according to this, Kaypro 10's came out in 1983, so probably around '83-'85.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=148 - ohcoaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2what?
- muElliott, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My first system = IBM with two 3 1/2 floppy bays, no hard drive
My CURRENT system = Dell Demension E510, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, 3.0 gHZ Pentium D processor, 1 TB Hard drive space.
Progress is good :-) - doctorcaligari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A time machine for $20! Count me in...
Then I'd go back to 1982, and get Coach to put me in. We'd have won State if he'd put me in. You know...I bet I could throw this pigskin over that mountain right there. - shotgunefx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Whipper snappers! Younger set might not be able to imagine having a PC without a harddrive at all. Man did floppy only suck.
Odd to think, it was around 95 or 96, a got a Seagate Barricude 4GB (I believe the largest PC drive available at the time), it was a bargain at $2000+ (Actually it was a better bargain as another kid sold it to me NIB for $75)
It looks like two drives stacked on top of each other, I thought "WOW", I'll never fill that up. Took me about 3 months. - funkspiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In the 80s I worked with an English woman, I loved it when she said "Winchester hard drive."
- mrmatchgame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2believe it or not I have two of those Hard Drives, one 10megs, and one 120megs. They are big as *****. I was helping clearing out a closet and found two of the drives. They are badly damaged so I have no way of knowing whats on the hard drive.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This reminds me of Computer Shopper. I know I am a geek because I used to stay up late leafing through that 3-inch thick thing around this time of year (christmas was coming).
- chintal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4if cars developed at the same rate as windows, we'd be exactly where we are right now.
- ryannerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Geez I'm old! This is embarrassing. My first computer was a TI-99/4A. see the specs:
http://oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html
I remember buying my first replacement HD for my PC. 10MB @ $245 I remember thinking that I was getting a bargain. - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In 1995 we had computer studies exam questions like - "Explain the difference between a floppy disk drive and a Winchester disk drive"... that was 4th or 5th grade though. Couple years later I found a 40 MB harddrive somewhere and I was happy... (my first computer didn't come with a harddrive at all). Believe it or not I bought that harddrive for under a dollar. Turned out it was stolen from some repair shop.
- jonathanz1980, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah just laugh, imagine what our kids will say in 20 years. "dad you paid 200 dollars for a 200 gb hardrive??? lol and it's unbelievable big! "
- Zarsk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bill gates said some thing like that and Some one from GM responded
http://www.chronicles-network.com/forum/32953-bill-gates-vs-gm.html
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy
a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would
have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off
the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For
some reason you would simply accept this. - GamingTrend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used to work for this company - the Crown brothers turned this little hard drive empire into Insight.com I've seen this ad many many times...
- L0t3k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@graemee
Wow... flashback. I had an old IBM PC with the intel 8088 that I mostly just played games on... as with most things it was a hand-me-down from the old man. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=274
But my sweetheart was the IBM PS/2 model 30 80286: http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/computer/ps2/8530-286.htm
Wow, I learned the fundamentals of everything I know about PCs on that machine. I still have that thing in storage somewhere. When I'm ridiculously famous, the case is getting bronzed.
I'll bet you the hdd still works on that thing, and I'll bet if I hooked up an old external pocket hayes 2400 or USR Sportster 14.4, renegade will still answer on the thing. - shahruz84, on 12/17/2008, -0/+1uhhhh.... okay
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