THIS is what you need.

http://www.titsee.com/stuff/the-hard...aiting-for.jpg

I remember buying one of the first 1gig drives and getting a free zip drive.

pretty nice!!

That's reminded me of taking my brother to pick up a Acorn A3010 and the computer shop man saying that 1MB of RAM was more than anybody would ever need :1orglaugh

Do you all remeber these ancient hard drives?
http://www.bible-history.com/images2...bite_stone.jpg
Work for millions of years, need no electricity and are perfectly green when painted.

Seriously tho, 5.25'' FDD is what I started with. MS-DOS 2.0, Norton Commander and Arkanoid.

it was great time !

yeah, but do you remember the 8" disks?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ives_8_5_3.jpg

don't get stuck in the mud on the plains

haha, I remember those too!

Ok here's a term I bet very few remember: Wait States.

Anyone?

Did this thread turn into a competition as to who is the most dated? :P

i have bought loads in the past.

i loved them but they were expensive.

in the uk they sold for about £10.

also after so long the drives had that click of death thing.

Classis :) i miss those times

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh Nice. Just yesterday I pulled an old G4 iMac tower I had sitting in the closet that has a zip drive on it.

This was the first computer I used...

http://www.allaboutapple.com/museo/p...ple_iiplus.jpg

I remember when I bought a Mac+ in the 80s.... 4MB RAM, and a 20MB hard drive... It was the ultimate in it's day.... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh


(BTW Yngwie.... The real Malmstein lives near me in North Miami. I see him at the car wash all the time.)


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i remember when these were mandatory in college. i would find a few around campus and load them up with my sites as backup

OMG, me too. I have no idea why I've saved it but I have it along with my 56k external modem.

I had a Apple 2GS or something wayyyyyyyyyyyy back in the day lololol

I think i got the zip drive still somewhere in storage lolol I wonder what else is hidden with it

lolol look what i found


http://juicylinks.com/zip.jpg

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Yep he does (live there I mean). So he's always washing his Ferrari?

I remember :)

When I got into IT in 1982, we were paying $30,000 for the DEC RA81, which was a huge, multi-platter removable disk that had 10MB of storage space on each one. And we thought that was a huge amount of space! Plus in college (1980), we used these giant IBM key-to-disk machines and all they did was to let you key in a computer program (or any text I suppose) and save it onto an 8" floppy disk. The thing was huge but I'll bet if you opened it up, it weas mostly empty (although circuit boards were a lot bigger and less dense than nowadays). Ah, those were the days - I miss them but not for the computer hardware. There was one big advantage - us IT guys were gods back then. When we talked, management listened. And we got paid a lot of dough and the chicks dug us big-time. Well, maybe not that last part.

I still have some of those somewhere around my place. and one of those old IBM punch cards.

and these days you can get a 1tb hard drive for $100 or less.

heheheh I was 6 years old at the time

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh i remember too...

Yep, I remember using them too and how cool it was to be the first in town to have a JAZ drive, lol :)

I never used zip drives. Went straight from floppies to CD-Rs.

old as fuck:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

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