1 gigabyte of memory then and now - Page 2

Spoon 11th · 08-08-09, 12:13 AM

5MB from 1956.

http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422

Task Force · 08-08-09, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Spoon 11th

5MB from 1956.

http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422

Holy crap thats big...

Wolfehunter · 08-08-09, 12:58 AM

I've seen some big hardrives.. big floppy drives... I've never seen ram that big before...

Jezzz.

This was my first computer fully equipped with voice and sound

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A

back in the early 80s.. I still have it boxed...

Bill Nichols · 08-08-09, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Melonfish

i remember the external hard drives for my amiga back in the early 90's it was the same size as the entire pc but only 10% its width.
it was HUGE holding a whopping 150mb!

in fact here's one right here

I can beat that. For my Apple ][ in the mid-1980s, my 10 MByte external drive was the size of a shoebox.

Letum · 08-08-09, 05:51 AM

It won't be long before we talk of Yobibyte hard drives that we can hold in
the palm of our hand. The future will think of us as we think of the past.

SteamWake · 08-08-09, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Letum

It won't be long before we talk of Yobibyte hard drives that we can hold in
the palm of our hand. The future will think [of] us as we think of the past.

and they would be right :rotfl:

Sailor Steve · 08-08-09, 11:25 AM

And even before that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

Platapus · 08-08-09, 11:49 AM

I remember when DEC came out with one of the first commercial hard drives. It was the size of a desktop computer and held 5 Megabytes. This was back in the early 80's.

At that time, I thought that there was no way a normal person would ever buy this. 5MB? No ordinary user would ever have that much data. Perhaps a big corporation could use 5MB but not an individual consumer.

Oh my how things have changed. Now we have terabyte drives for just a few hundred dollars.

08-08-09, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

I remember when DEC came out with one of the first commercial hard drives. It was the size of a desktop computer and held 5 Megabytes. This was back in the early 80's.

At that time, I thought that there was no way a normal person would ever buy this. 5MB? No ordinary user would ever have that much data. Perhaps a big corporation could use 5MB but not an individual consumer.

Oh my how things have changed. Now we have terabyte drives for just a few hundred dollars.

Well it hasn't really changed that much given that it's been 20-30 years since the true commercial take-off of desktop & home computers. When I thought about the 2000 and beyond in, say, 1985, it was a pretty distant and almost sci-fi thing to fathom. Now we know that it's more about the commercial side of the whole thing that matters, home computers don't evolve any quicker then it's commercially wise for the makers meaning that they evolve about as slow as they can. And one still has to dish out pretty much the same amount of money for a decent/ok cpu.

kiwi_2005 · 08-08-09, 02:53 PM

I have 5 old 1 & 2gig hdd's store away & they are quite heavy in weight big square devices like giant data cards. And last time i hooked them up they still ran well although a bit noisy. I figure if i hold on to em for another 10yrs or so they be worth a bit to some collector

GoldenRivet · 08-08-09, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Spoon 11th

5MB from 1956.

http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422

you could get maybe TWO MP3 songs on that thing

Sailor Steve · 08-10-09, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Platapus

At that time, I thought that there was no way a normal person would ever buy this. 5MB? No ordinary user would ever have that much data. Perhaps a big corporation could use 5MB but not an individual consumer.

Oh my how things have changed. Now we have terabyte drives for just a few hundred dollars.

I had an Atari 520ST back in the '80s. It had no hard drive. I bought a 20MB add-on, and thought about upgrading, but a friend warned me away from the 50MB rig because "It always crashes".

In 1998 I bought my first PC and made the same comments: 10GB was impossibly huge, and there's no way I would ever fill it up.

Today I use more than that for my SH3 installations!

FIREWALL · 08-10-09, 01:13 PM

Looks like a Dual caliper disc brake to me.

Kloef · 08-10-09, 01:20 PM

Back in 1985 when i worked for IBM the first harddisk arrived at the office,50MB.....state of the art technology then and we were the first in Europe to receive one....everybody wanted a look so we had extra coffee and chairs so people could wait for their turn to watch 'the magic' as we called it...the price was something like a new house i remember that..

We had a great offer from the company,the 'mother of all pc's' the 8086 processor.A 14 inch monochrome monitor,a keyboard and 2 floppydirves ,2! for the small amout of only 17.000 which was really cheap back then!I declined the offer because i had a Commodore 64(couldnt tell the company about that in those days)..10 years later i did buy one just for nostalgia,i paid $300...an a colour monitor included..

But that 1GB looks really cool,wouldnt mind installing one just for the looks..

we came a long way,micro SD 16GB.....in a mobile phone

08-08-09, 12:58 AM	#18
Wolfehunter Crusty Capt. Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,752 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 25	I've seen some big hardrives.. big floppy drives... I've never seen ram that big before... Jezzz. This was my first computer fully equipped with voice and sound http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A back in the early 80s.. I still have it boxed... __________________

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Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	It won't be long before we talk of Yobibyte hard drives that we can hold in the palm of our hand. The future will think of us as we think of the past. __________________ Last edited by Letum; 08-08-09 at 07:15 AM. Reason: "of"

08-08-09, 11:25 AM	#22
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	And even before that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

08-08-09, 11:49 AM	#23
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,393 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I remember when DEC came out with one of the first commercial hard drives. It was the size of a desktop computer and held 5 Megabytes. This was back in the early 80's. At that time, I thought that there was no way a normal person would ever buy this. 5MB? No ordinary user would ever have that much data. Perhaps a big corporation could use 5MB but not an individual consumer. Oh my how things have changed. Now we have terabyte drives for just a few hundred dollars. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	I have 5 old 1 & 2gig hdd's store away & they are quite heavy in weight big square devices like giant data cards. And last time i hooked them up they still ran well although a bit noisy. I figure if i hold on to em for another 10yrs or so they be worth a bit to some collector __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

08-08-09, 12:13 AM	#16
Spoon 11th Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Finland Posts: 689 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	5MB from 1956. http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422

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FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	Looks like a Dual caliper disc brake to me. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

08-10-09, 01:20 PM	#29
Kloef Weps Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 360 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Back in 1985 when i worked for IBM the first harddisk arrived at the office,50MB.....state of the art technology then and we were the first in Europe to receive one....everybody wanted a look so we had extra coffee and chairs so people could wait for their turn to watch 'the magic' as we called it...the price was something like a new house i remember that.. We had a great offer from the company,the 'mother of all pc's' the 8086 processor.A 14 inch monochrome monitor,a keyboard and 2 floppydirves ,2! for the small amout of only 17.000 which was really cheap back then!I declined the offer because i had a Commodore 64(couldnt tell the company about that in those days)..10 years later i did buy one just for nostalgia,i paid $300...an a colour monitor included.. But that 1GB looks really cool,wouldnt mind installing one just for the looks.. we came a long way,micro SD 16GB.....in a mobile phone __________________ http://www.dutchsubmarines.com/