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Old 09-13-2006, 08:43 PM   #1 (permalink)
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AHHHHHHH...... I remember the good old 5'1/4 inch 10Mb Hard Drive (House Brick).

Freind of mine has one for a paper weight at his work.
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THe oldest pc I've had with a hard drive was an ibm ps/2, it had an internal 20mb. This was pretty much average for 1988.
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AHHHHHHH...... I remember the good old 5'1/4 inch 10Mb Hard Drive (House Brick).

Freind of mine has one for a paper weight at his work.
one of my profs uses one as a door stop for his studio. Pretty funny... the thing costed like $5k... so its a $5k doorstop.
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My first PC had a 40MB hard drive. Today's hard drives are much larger than the average person needs for storage. Not so back in the late 80s early 90s (at least in mainstream PCs). 40MB back then was like 40GB now.
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My current PC has a 40GB hard drive, and my first one had a 540MB hard drive.

Shows how the hard drive has been getting better in the least 20 years.
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It's seems crazy how we're still using mechanical devices in otherwise entirely electronic machines.
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