I'm Baaaaaack!!!!!

[slowburninsteve]

With a 320 GB hard drive and completely reformated Dell. Makes the old 50 GB hard drive seem like a zombie!

Now I can store lots of politically incorrect photos and video!!!!! It's Shugart time!!!!!

 

[slowburninsteve]

With a 320 GB hard drive and completely reformated Dell. Makes the old 50 GB hard drive seem like a zombie!

Now I can store lots of politically incorrect photos and video!!!!! It's Shugart time!!!!!

 

[Wheelgunner840]

Welcome back Steve!!!
WG840

 

[Spotteddog]

I don't understand one thing you just said? But I'm glad your back!

 

[Jim Shugart]

Welcome back, Steve! They laughed at me five years ago when I go a 120GB hard drive -- they were wrong. - Jim

 

[Milton]

Man ,I can remember when a 1.5 GB hard drive was big!You can't even load an operating system on one that small now.

 

[EvelMe]

First PC's I used regularly had 20 MB and 40 MB hard-drives. They were 'portable'. That meant the 3 or 4 inch amber video screens were built into the case, with a latched on keyboard that formed the bottom of the case. they weighed like 30 pounds IIRC.
I'm gettin' OLDDDDD! I was in the hospital (June 95) when Windows came out. I remember the announcements on the radio about the lines at the electronics stores, waiting for the sales to start, wishing I could get out to one of the sales.

(BTW, welcome back!)

 

[MKT]

Oooooh....you scared me. I thought I saw an R in the mix

 

[slowburninsteve]

God help us!!!!!!
SW

Originally posted by MKT:
Oooooh....you scared me. I thought I saw an R in the mix

 

[mtb1bkr]

Only 120GBs??? I'm pushing 1TB right now, I should be good for a couple of years. I just rebuilt this computer last month. Before that, I built it in 2002; it was time for an upgrade.

Bill

 

[Gunhacker]

It blows me away about the size and prices of hard drivers these days... 1TB (never thought I'd be talking in terms of terabyte capacity and RAID for a desk top PC) usb external HD for less than $100, with 2TB hot on it's heels.

Being the old fart computer geek that I am... I started out with an IBM PC that only had two 5 1/4" floppy disk drives (hard-drives were unheard of). One for the operating system floppy to boot up from, and the other for reading/writing your data. NO hard-drive, a mind boggling 512K max of memory because that's all that DOS O/S could address/utilize. I still remember how "magical" it felt when I went to an IBM AT with a hard-drive and could offload the boxes and boxes of 5 1/4" floppies I amasssed over the years and toss them.

 

[Nygma]

Originally posted by Gunhacker:
I still remember how "magical" it felt when I went to an IBM AT with a hard-drive and could offload the boxes and boxes of 5 1/4" floppies I amasssed over the years and toss them.

LOL. I still have a box of 8" and 5-1/4" floppies stowed away. I just can't bring myself to pitch them. If, some day, I need the stuff on them, I'd have to buy an old machine to get it. The whole box wouldn't even put a dent in the 16GB flash drive hanging on my key chain.